Hi all, I've put together an outline for "10 Simple Rules for Releasing Your Open Source Software", catering to scientists:
https://github.com/ged-lab/2015-paper-10-simple-rules-releasing/blob/master/outline.rst I'm not looking for general comments at this point, but I *am* looking for co-authors -- if you can offer up a 10th rule, then let's chat... (Pls reply off-list.) thanks, --titus On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:53:22AM -0500, Greg Wilson wrote: > 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 > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
