I’m not a Fortran user but overtime I mention it there is a sharp uptick in page views so there are obviously a significant number of users who might be interested in this workshop.

Fortran modernisation workshop at Culham Centre for fusion energy

Date: 24 - 25 August 2016. Time: 09:30 - 17:30. Location: Learning Resource and Development Centre (Library), E building, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

• Software engineering for computational science;
• Modern Fortran standards and how to write optimized and efficient Fortran;
• NetCDF and HDF5 scientific file formats for data sharing in Fortran;
• GNU Automake to automate the build process;
• pFUnit unit testing framework for testing Fortran codes;
• Doxygen for Fortran code documentation;
• Git version control for collaborative code development;
• In-memory visualisation using PLplot in Fortran;
• IEEE Floating Point Exception Handling
• Software verification and portability using the NAG Fortran compiler
• Fortran interoperability with C, Python and R;
• Introduction to parallelism for Fortran.

There is a page of Fortran Resources here.