Shoaib Sufi on The Carpentries

The Software Sustainability Institute's Guidance for Running Online Training

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This blog post was originally posted on the Software Sustainability Institute’s website based on lessons learned by SSI members.

Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash

Introduction

The following is guidance based on the Software Sustainability Institute staff and collaborators running online training events which have become more needed due to the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve Crouch has run afternoon training events online for the Scottish response to the Royal Society RAMP COVID initiative; Mario Antonioletti, Lucia Michielin, Aleksandra Nenadic and Giacomo Peru have been running Edinburgh Carpentries events online; Aleksandra Nenadic and Steve Crouch have run and facilitated workshops and instructor training events online. Rachael Ainsworth has excellent online event management experience especially during the recent delivery of Collaborations Workshop 2020 online. Shoaib Sufi has oversight of the Collaborations Workshop series of events and moved the selection of the Institute Fellows from a face to face meeting to a successful online event which has taken place for a number of years now.

Software Credit Workshop in London, 19 October 2015

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Securing credit for research software is the subject of the Software Credit Workshop. This is taking place at the Natural History Museum, London, UK on the 19th October 2015.

Explore what contributions software can and should make for career advancement. Discuss ways in which you see software tools and applications supporting the current needs of researchers and software developers seeking credit for their involvement in research software. Identify and propose ideas for improving the way software’s contribution to better research are connected and how this should support appropriate reputational credit for research software enablers.

Join other funders, publishers, software developers, researchers, leaders, citation experts and altmetrics visionaries to make your thoughts heard and shape the conversation.

Find out more and register at www.software.ac.uk/software-credit.

SSI Fellowship Applications Open

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Fellowship Programme run by the Software Sustainability Institute funds researchers in exchange for their expertise and advice. The main goals of the Programme are encouraging best practice and gathering information about research software from all disciplines, and encouraging Fellows to develop their interests in the area of software sustainability (especially in their areas of work). The Programme also supports capacity building and policy development initiatives.

Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2015

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2015 (CW15), which will be held on March 25-27, 2015 in Oxford, UK, focusses on software, best practice and the social side of working past the boundaries of traditional disciplines and roles to accelerate research outcomes—or put differently, interdisciplinarity done right!

What will you learn by attending:

The social and technical sides of interdisciplinary working.
Examples of best practice of when it's been effective - and horror stories of when it has not.
Examples of techniques and technologies that could be applied from one discipline to another - discipline hopping.