Post: What happened to the original Software Carpentry?
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title: 'What happened to the original Software Carpentry?'
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Before @softwarecarpentry, there was Software Carpentry.
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What happened to it?
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slug: swc-the-competition
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date: 2016-08-16T18:03:13+01:00
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type: post
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tags:
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- Software Carpentry
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- Web archaeology
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- Technology
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> "Software Carpentry was originally a competition to design new software tools,
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> not a training course.
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> The fact that you didn't know that tells you how well it worked."
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When I read this in a [recent post on Greg Wilson's blog][gvwilson blog],
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I took it as a challenge.
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I actually do remember the competition,
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although looking at the dates it was long over by the time I found it.
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I believe it did have impact;
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in fact, I still occasionally use one of the tools it produced,
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so Greg's comment got me thinking:
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what happened to the other competition entries?
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Working out what happened will need a bit of digging,
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as most of the relevant information
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is now [only available on the Internet Archive][SWC Archive].
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It certainly seems that by November 2008
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the domain name had been allowed to lapse
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and had been replaced with a holding page by the registrar.
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There were four categories in the competition,
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each representing a category of tool
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that the organisers thought could be improved:
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- SC Build: a build tool to replace [make][]
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- SC Conf: a configuration management tool to replace [autoconf][] and [automake][]
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- SC Track: a bug tracking tool
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- SC Test: an easy to use testing framework
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I'm hoping to be able to show that this work
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had a lot more impact than Greg is admitting here.
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I'll keep you posted on what I find!
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[gvwilson blog]: http://third-bit.com/2015/12/06/just-keep-swimming.html
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[SWC Archive]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071014042716/http://software-carpentry.com/index.html
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[make]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
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[autoconf]: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
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[automake]: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
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