Notices by Daniel S. Katz (danielskatz@fosstodon.org)

@eberfreitas If you can find anything specific that I can add to the repo as examples or guidance, please share them

I've been collecting guidance, documents, examples, templates for open-source software projects, such as on governance, roadmaps, contributing, code of conduct, licenses, etc. in https://github.com/corsa-center/oss-documents.

Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good sustainability plans that I can link to? Or even guides about how to write one.

Come join us at the Journal of Open Source Software as an editor.

@joss is a developer-friendly, open-access journal for research software packages.

We're committed to publishing quality research software with zero article processing charges or subscription fees.

https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/10/call-for-editors

@powersoffour I'm not really sure those could be put together and be "best" at any date

@drb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

@civodul I heard an interesting talk from Matlab folks a couple of years ago where they described their depreciation process. If I remember right, they had releases every six months, and wouldn't deprecate anything (or make any changes that could break user code) with less than 4 releases (2 years) of notice.

"Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found."

from https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

The executive summary of the report (https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=b4fd6043-6626-4cbe-b8ee-a5c7319e94a0 includes) "The final assessment results of the PoC showed that out of a maximum of 75 points, the aggregated human summaries scored 61 (81%) and the aggregated Gen AI summaries scored 35 (47%)."

New blog post:

There’s no such thing as sustainable research software

https://danielskatzblog.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/no-sustainable-research-software/

I'm currently reading https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538181614/Rescuing-Science-Restoring-Trust-In-an-Age-of-Doubt. I've made it through about half so far, and while I like some of it, and agree with the main ideas of it, it also seems much more pessimistic than my experiences as a student and an academic. I wonder if computer science is different than some of the other fields discussed, or if my part of it is, or if my experience outside of the tenure-track system makes things seem better to me than to the author.

@gvwilson I always think: should I shave or should I grow?

A new article I contributed to has now been published:

Mohammad Hosseini, Alex O. Holcombe, Marton Kovacs, Hub Zwart, Daniel S. Katz & Kristi Holmes (2024) Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges, Accountability in Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2322557

@jwildeboer When you see "legacy", replace it with "heritage"

Are you a Research Software Engineer (#RSEng) or High Performance Computing (#HPC) Engineer?

Call for Talks: HPC-RSE workshop (https://www.rse-hpc.org) on “Enhancing the symbiosis between HPC & RSE communities” at ISC24

We seek 2 types of 10-min talks:

Early career, about entering the RSE/HPC community or how a community made a collaboration/project possible

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Two Yellow-billed Shrikes and a Grey-headed Bushshrike in the Gambia

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Two more owls: Pearl-spotted Owlets from the Gambia

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I was in the Gambia a few weeks ago to look at birds. I ended up photographing 197 species, of which 171 were new to me, plus some primates, insects, etc. I'll be posting some of the photos in a thread here, starting with owls today: Verreaux's Eagle Owl (juvenile) and Northern White-faced Owl (juvenile and adult) and a couple of Pearl-spotted Owlets in a next message

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White-crested Helmetshrikes in the Gambia, one of the odder-looking bird species I saw

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Barbets in the Gambia: Bearded and Vieillot's

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Storks in the Gambia: Yellow-billed Stork, Yellow-billed Stork & Great Egret, Black Stork, Marabou Storks

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A Long-Crested Eagle in the Gambia, flying, landing, standing, and taking flight again

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