Newsletters

Research Software – March 2020 Newsletter

Local Research Software Support Call 1 Announced! The Local Research Software Support funding call has launched and is accepting applications. The goal of this call is to establish research software support teams at selected institutions, who are available to assist researchers to develop, enhance, repurpose, and maintain software for research. Learn more: Press Release CRSC […]

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DAIR – February 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the February 2020 edition of the DAIR Community Newsletter. We have lots of exciting news to share with you. New Quarterly Webinar Given the success of the DAIR BoosterPack Launch Party webinar in December, we’re going to host quarterly DAIR webinars! The focus of each webinar will be a presentation of a specific […]

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Research Software – September 2019 Newsletter

Canadian Research Software Conference 2019 Our 2019 Canadian Research Software Conference took place on May 27th – 29th in Montreal. The room was at capacity, and we had two packed days of engaging talks from Dr. Pablo Castro, Dr. Jonathan Kelly, Dr. Gail Murphy, and many other members of the research software community. Attendees said […]

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CAF September 2019 Newsletter

CAF Newsletter – August 2019 Eduroam Visitor Access is Coming Soon! Stay tuned for the launch of eduroam Visitor Access (eVA) for Canadian Access Federation (CAF) participants this Fall! eVA allows you to grant visitors secure, time-limited access to eduroam through your campus’s existing eduroam Wi-Fi network. eVA can strengthen Wi-Fi security at your institution and […]

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DAIR – May 2019 Newsletter

Welcome to the May 2019 edition of the DAIR Community Newsletter. It’s been a few months since our last newsletter, so we have plenty of exciting news to share with you. Thank you… …to all of our DAIR participants that took the time to reply to our recent survey or agreed to chat by phone. […]

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Research Software – March 2019 Newsletter

Canadian Research Software Conference 2019 The Canadian Research Software Conference (CRSC) is prepping for its second appearance on May 28-29 in Montreal. Who should attend CRSC 2019? Active developers of software for academic research (regardless of job title) Computational researchers Doctorate Students and those studying to develop research software Developers of open-source software to support […]

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Research Software – December 2018 Newsletter

CANARIE Awards $4.4M to 20 Research Teams to Develop Advanced Software to Improve Vaccines, Monitor Climate Change, and More We are very proud to announce up to $4.4M funding awarded to 20 Canadian research teams to develop research software that can serve multiple groups of researchers regardless of specialty. The funding is part of the Government […]

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Research Software – September 2018 Newsletter

Announcing the Second Annual Survey of Research Software Developers in Canada We’re happy to announce the launch of the second survey of Canadian developers of software to support academic research. This survey is being conducted with the assistance of the UK Software Sustainability Institute and is being launched simultaneously with similar surveys in several other countries. The […]

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DAIR – June 2017 Newsletter

We have many exciting things to show off in our first newsletter, which will be a monthly installment. If you are new to DAIR, please check out our latest instructional video. It will help to get you up and running in your own DAIR environment and walk you through the process step by step. 1. […]

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DAIR – May 2018 Newsletter

Welcome to the May edition of the DAIR Cloud Community Newsletter. This month we have an exciting discussion about Docker and how Docker can be used in your DAIR environment. Docker is an open source, software container platform. Docker lends flexibility and portability to your cloud environment by enabling you to you to containerize your […]

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