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The conversation contines\n+<a href='http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-September/002207.html'>here</a>,\n+<a href='http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-September/002210.html'>here</a>, and\n+a blog post by Damien Irving <a href='http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/02/university-course.html'>here</a>.\n+\n+The Software Carpentry + Data Carpentry Instructor & Helper Retreat seemed like a good means to revisit the discussion.\n+\n+<h2>Who are we?</h2>\n+<a href='https://twitter.com/chendaniely'>Daniel Chen</a> is a doctoral candidate in\n+<a href='http://gbcb.vbi.vt.edu/gbcb/about_program'>Genetrics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (GBCB)</a>\n+at Virginia Tech and currently working in the\n+<a href='http://vbi.vt.edu/sdal'>Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory</a>\n+under the <a href='http://vbi.vt.edu'>Virginia Bioinformatics Institute</a>.\n+I received my MPH at 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