Tag: Software Sustainability Institute
Raniere steps down as Community Officer
It is with mixed emotions that I announce today is my last day as Community Officer at the Software Sustainability Institute.
This might not be a surprise for some as earlier this year we announced that we would be hiring a Research Software Community Officer/Manager. We interviewed amazing candidates in May and in the next couple of months you will know who will join the Institute to continue collaborating with Fellows and making Collaborations Workshop the best event that you can attend on the cross research space.
More ...CarpentryCon2018
By Raniere Silva, Software Sustainability Institute, Aleksandra Nenadic, Software Sustainability Institute, Mario Antonioletti, Software Sustainability Institute.
Software Carpentry "restarted once again in January 2012 with a new grant from the Sloan Foundation, and backing from the Mozilla Foundation" [1]. Soon after, the Software Sustainability Institute launched the Software Carpentry movement in the UK by organising and staffing the first workshops together with Greg Wilson [3, 4]. Since then, the Institute has been The Carpentries’ Platinum partner and has provided help to The Carpentries movement by funding a workshop administrator position to coordinate workshops in the UK and Europe. The Institute's staff regularly teach at workshops and have been actively promoting The Carpentries' programmes to educational institutions around the UK. Throughout this time, we have witnessed and supported the UK and worldwide expansion of the Carpentries’ community and the rise of a number of new Carpentries (Data, Library, HPC, Social Sciences, Digital Humanities, etc.). In the UK alone, there are now 15 institutions that have their own relationships with The Carpentries and are actively running Carpentries programmes. After six years of working and communicating with The Carpentries’ staff and community via email and various video conferencing tools at all sorts of early or late hours, we finally met them face-to-face for the very first time at CarpentryCon 2018. It was all very exciting!
More ...Measuring Behaviour 2018
We know that seven out of ten UK researchers reported that their work would be impossible without software, but, sometimes when attending domain specific conferences, we still get surprised at the importance of software in research. On June 2018, I attended Measuring Behavior 2018 by invitation of our fellow Robyn Grant.
Measuring Behavior 2018 was a three-day conference hosted at the Manchester Metropolitan University and covered analysis methods for behavioral data, techniques for human factors studies, mazes and behavioral tests, sensors for measuring behavior, extracting behavior from audio-video streams and a few other related topics.
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