Notes
Quick notes, linkposts, and crosspost summaries. Notes marked From Notes also appear in the blog index.
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A working list of learn-by-doing open source resources
Gathering the interactive, guided, and gamified resources for learning open source and DevOps skills — the kind that teach by doing, like swirl did for R. A starting list to bring to the UC OSPO education group.
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Three pieces I bookmarked this year that keep pointing at the same thing: a lot of the software running the world rests on one or two people, and almost no one funds them.
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First pilots have taught — here's what came back
First results from the external community pilots of our open science curriculum for librarians: lessons run long, funder policies move fast, and line-level feedback is gold.
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The DataSquad model — what makes it work
Link to a DataSquad post on the undergraduate research consultant model, with commentary.
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Open Science Curriculum for Librarians — IMLS project update
Summary of progress on the IMLS-funded open science curriculum, originally posted on the project site.
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What research data infrastructure actually requires
A short note on the difference between data storage and real data infrastructure.