Hi, everyone - In a little while, the Mozilla Science Lab will be running an experiment, and I want to know if you'd like to help.
(Some of you are thinking, you had me at Mozilla Science Lab. I know; that's how they got me, too. Keep reading!) The gist of it is: This is a pilot program, an experiment where we pair up Mozilla's programmers with Scientists Who Do Actual Science, who rely on code they've written themselves to do their research. We'd like to see if the sort of code review we do here routinely, which is pretty much unheard-of in the academic-research environment, can make those scientists' software, research and lives better. This isn't expected to be a huge commitment of time - an hour or three, if that, sometime the next two months? - and I'd like to be able to pair people up with somebody working with a field that interests them, if at all possible. The specific questions we're trying to answer are: 1. How much scientific software can be reviewed by non-specialists, and how often is domain expertise required? 2. How much effort does this take compared to reviews of other kinds of software, and to reviews of papers themselves? 3. How useful do scientists find these reviews? If you'd like to help, please let me know; if you've got a particular interested in a specific field, please specify. Again, this is a pilot project - whether or not it grows beyond that depends on whether or not this turns out to be a valuable experience for all concerned. But at the very least I think it will be interesting. Let me know, - mhoye _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
