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Could coaching contribute to more sustainable software?

SSI Fellow Sorrel Harriet explains the importance of coaching in software development.

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Fellows newsletter: December 2020

This month's SSI Fellows Newsletter which shares activities and opportunities taking place within the Fellows' community.
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Top 10 podcasts on software and open research

As part of our 10 year anniversary series, SSI Fellows Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson highlight 10 podcasts that cover software and open research related issues that you might want to add to your playlists.
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News

Register your interest for the SSI’s Research Software Camp on Research Accessibility

The Software Sustainability Institute invites anyone involved with research and research software from all career stages to its first-ever Research Software Camp. Focusing on the topic of research accessibility, it will run online from 22 February to 5 March 2021. 
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Dr Michelle Barker to open Collaborations Workshop '21 with keynote on FAIR Research Software

Dr Michelle Barker will deliver the Collaborations Workshop 2021 keynote on FAIR Research Software.
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Scheduled maintenance for website on Thursday morning

The Software Sustainability Institute website will be down for scheduled maintenance on Thursday 3 December between 07:30 and 09:30 GMT.

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Events

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Collaborations Workshop 2021

Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21) takes place from Tuesday, 30 March to Thursday, 1 April 2021 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, policy makers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.

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Collaborations Workshop 2020

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) takes place from Tuesday, 31st March to Thursday, 2nd April 2020 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019

In affiliation with The Carpentries, The Software Sustainability Institute is organising the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester from 25th to 27th June 2019.
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"We are in a position to fundamentally reorganise the heart of the software. By doing so, this will enable us to maintain the software into the future and facilitate the process of adding new functionality to the software ... SSI can assist in having software usable by others not just for a few months or a year, but rather for a much longer software lifetime"

- Eric Rexstad, Distance