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Applications now open for the 2024 URSSI Summer School in Research Software Engineering

Kyle Niemeyer, Lorena Barba • February 29, 2024

Do you develop software for your research? Do you have some basic skills but desire more? If so, you might be interested in the upcoming URSSI Summer School in Research Software Engineering. Building off our pilot workshop in December 2019 and a recent winter school held in January 2024, we are hosting a three-day workshop on research software engineering skills over 24–26 June 2024 in Washington, DC, on the campus of George Washington University.

A pathway for participation in research open source

James Howison, Jennifer Schopf • February 20, 2024

In planning for the University of Texas at Austin Open Source Program Office (UT-OSPO), funded by the Sloan Foundation in 2023, we worked to think about the impacts that we hoped to have on campus (and beyond). In this effort, we were inspired by models of increasing engagement, sometimes broadly called “maturity models.” This approach helped bring together our OSPO team from across campus around the idea of a Participation Pathway.

Applications now open for the 2024 URSSI Winter School in Research Software Engineering

Kyle Niemeyer, Karthik Ram • October 31, 2023

Do you develop software for your research? Do you have some basic skills but desire more? If so, you might be interested in the upcoming URSSI Winter School in Research Software Engineering. Building off our pilot workshop held back in December 2019, we are hosting a 2.5-day workshop on research software engineering skills, to be held 3-5 January 2024 in Portland, Oregon. This is aimed at early-career researchers, including graduate students and postdocs, who are familiar with the basics such as the Unix shell, version control with Git, and Python programming, and would like to learn more about best practices for developing research software.

Diversity and inclusion in research software: Insights from an international workshop

Eric A. Jensen and Daniel S. Katz • October 26, 2023

The IEEE eScience conference in October 2023 served as the backdrop for an international participatory workshop convened by the URSSI Charting the Course project. This workshop in Cyprus facilitated a focused discussion about how to advance the field of research software. A previous blog article presented the part of this discussion that focused on career paths. Here, we delve into the second part of the discussion, which centered on diversity and inclusion in the research software field.

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