The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) hosted its first ever hybrid Collaborations Workshop (CW23) in Manchester, UK, and online between May 2 and 4, 2023. CW23 brought together researchers, developers, funders, policymakers and teachers all gathered around the topic of sustainable technical, personal and career development in the research software community.
In this latest episode of Code For Thought, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt speaks with Teresa Gomez-Diaz from Université Paris Gustav-Eiffel, east of Paris, France. For a long time Teresa has been promoting Open Science and last year she talked on this show about the need for licences in research software.
Over the course of four days earlier in April, a group of us at the Open Science Retreat spent time discussing challenges and opportunities with usability in Open Source Scientific Software. As a way to wrap up the time spent together, a few group members wrote personal narratives (including self-assigned catchy titles!) that highlight some of the individual and collective experiences in usability.
Over the course of four days earlier in April, a group of us at the Open Science Retreat spent time discussing challenges and opportunities with usability in Open Source Scientific Software. As a way to wrap up the time spent together, a few group members wrote personal narratives (including self-assigned catchy titles!) that highlight some of the individual and collective experiences in usability.
In this article, I share my experience of virtually attending the Malaysia Open Science Platform (MOSP) launch ceremony that took place on May 16, 2023.
At the recent Open Science Retreat, a group of us from across scientific domains dove into our issues of usability in scientific software. Below is a recap of the discussions and next steps.
In early April, Heidi Seibold (co-organised with The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS)) hosted the event she always wanted to attend: A week full of scientific discussions and reflections, getting work done, making new friends and resetting.
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science has been unanimously adopted by its member states in November 2021. The Recommendation includes the recognition of the role of software, source code and software infrastructure as key parts of Open Science.
Do you lead an open source/open science project, or know someone who does? Take part in a study following open projects over time, to see if we can identify common elements amongst the more sustainable projects.
RIOT Science Club are hosting a conference on Open Research: A Vision for the Future on 2 March from 12.20 to 17.10 GMT. It's free to attend and open to all.