Hi,
In case you missed it, Daisie Huang wrote a very insightful article
about the differences between scientific coding and software engineering
for the Software Sustainability Institute's blog at
http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2015-02-06-scientific-coding-and-software-engineering-whats-difference.
I think short pieces like this that we can link to when we're talking to
colleagues (and writing proposals) are really useful, so I would be
grateful if a few of our newer instructors would like to volunteer to
summarize three recent discussions we've been having about:
* where scientists should store their data:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/797
* what project templates people use, and how:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/806
* how to manage the flood of notifications from GitHub (and information
flood more generally): https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/813
The summary/synthesis wouldn't have to go on the SWC blog - if you have
a blog of your own and would like to put it there to start bringing in
more readers, we'd be very happy to link to it. And if you'd like to do
something more ambitious, like a "Ten Simple Rules" article for PLOS
(http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pcol.v03.i01),
that would be even better.
Collectively, we know a lot about how to actually do scientific
computing, open research, and a bunch of other things. We won't ever be
able to teach all of it in our workshops - there's simply not time - but
we can still help other people by boiling it down and making it easier
to find. If your schedule and other commitments don't allow you to
travel to help teach a workshop, you can still make a valuable
contribution by helping us share our collected wisdom with others. If
you're interested, please mail me directly and we'll get the ball rolling.
Thanks,
Greg
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Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected]
Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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