Bursting the Bubble: Teaching PIs the value of good code

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Noodle - CI14-CW21 Participants Marion Weinzierl (Durham University) Sam Harrison (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) Arielle Bennett (Alan Turing Institute, London) Steve Crouch (SSI, Southampton) Mark Turner (Durham University) Notes Marion: How to work with and take forward legacy code? Is there a checklist to make use of for this? Or develop an automatic script to parse the repo and tell me how to improve it? https://software....

5 min · 866 words · Marion Weinzierl, Sam Harrison, Arielle Bennett, Steve Crouch, Mark Turner

Path to Open Platforms - new chapter for the Turing Way

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Collaborative Ideas session group: G-Ginkgo Participants Sarah Gibson, 2i2c, sgibson@2i2c.org Arielle Bennett, The Alan Turing Institute Morane Gruenpeter, Software Heritage, morane@softwareheritage.org James Byrne, RSE @ British Antarctic Survey, jambyr@bas.ac.uk Mohamed Selim, Project Leader, EMBL-EBI, mselim@ebi.ac.uk Patricia Herterich, DCC, University of Edinburgh, p.herterich@ed.ac.uk Some ideas/challenges: Running open infrastructure requires skills that are really hard to learn and most PIs (senior people) do not understand/care about it Avoiding vendor lock in People don’t mind paying for this (but do they care if it’s open?...

2 min · 425 words · Sarah Gibson, Arielle Bennett, Morane Gruenpeter, James Byrne, Mohamed Selim, Patricia Herterich