Re: [Discuss] Elsevier Software Track

Declaration of interest: I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software, a journal which published software metapapers which are similar to the Elsevier Original Software Publication idea. I also maintain a list of journals which accept papers about scientific software:

[Discuss] Recruiting Associate Editors for the Journal of Open Research Software

Hi, I hope that people don't mind me advertising this here. A number of the Software Carpentry community have been authors, reviewers and editors for the Journal of Open Research Software, so hopefully it isn't off-topic. The Journal of Open Research Software is an international, open-access,

Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

> I'll add that besides a workflow system which would have helped (but > not necessarily panacea, errors could be made there too), an open data > reproducible paper would have helped even more: with all those > skeptics, someone would have tried to re-run the analysis seeking for > errors, and

Re: [Discuss] Election question

I would have also liked the ability to vote for N candidates (where N = number of positions being elected). Otherwise, I feel that I have to vote strategically to get a good selection of candidates (i.e. is there someone I think will get a lot of votes and thus I can use my vote on someone I think

[Discuss] Resources and examples for young scientists

Hi All, as part of the outreach activity we're undertaking with EPCC, we're looking to pull together resources and examples for young scientists and engineers in the UK (where young is classified as 7-19, but we are aiming at 10-15). I wondered if people on the list had come across: - tutorials

Re: [Discuss] Open Science "Carpentry"

Hi Andreas, I see you've already be directed towards the two resources I'm most familiar with: FOSTER Open Science collaboration (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/) - I have given "open source for open science" seminars at some of their events before. Sophie Kay (nee Kershaw's) Open Science

Re: [Discuss] "Stealing Google's coding practices for academia"

> I've often heard it said that research code doesn't need as much unit > testing or code review as scientific code, but it isn't obvious to me > that the consequences of error are less in research code. Or better > put, it is obvious to me that that is so, but that is not a sign of > good health

Re: [Discuss] how many mistakes can I make in two and a half minutes?

Wait, is "engaging in the Software Carpentry drinking game before/during teaching" not on the list of worst practices yet? In all seriousness, thanks for recording this Greg! Neil On 5 May 2016 at 18:45, Karen Cranston wrote: > With this video + list of Worst

Re: [Discuss] reimbursement timelines

+1 to the overall sentiment, and +1 to Titus' modification as most hosts will not be able to pay without the claim and receipts being submitted. However, as someone who has to authorise many guest expenses claims through their institution, I know that it can be a struggle to get a claim for

Re: [Discuss] "Stealing Google's coding practices for academia"

Thanks for passing it on - that's one of the best "how to actually use this stuff without it getting in the way of what you're trying to do" posts I've seen in a while. Neil On 30 April 2016 at 14:18, C. Titus Brown wrote: > Have people seen this? I didn’t see it make the

Re: [Discuss] Project management tools for research

A few years back, I tried to map the different types of software project management infrastructure, based on when they're needed at different stages of maturity for a project (see attached). This drew upon sources like Fogel's Producing OSS, with tweaks specifically for working in a research

[Discuss] Invitation to Digital Skills Curriculum Planning Workshop, EGU Vienna 28th April

Hi All, Fiona Murphy is running a workshop on digital skills curriculum planning at the EGU conference in Vienna on 28th April. If there are any members of the Software Carpentry / Data Carpentry community attending EGU who are interested in and able to participating in the workshop, Fiona would

Re: [Discuss] Asserting Community Health

Nice! Are you aware of the CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) initiative under the Linux Foundation? https://chaoss.community/ Most of the major interested parties in community health metrics are using CHAOSS as the place to define both metrics/indicators and develop