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#open source
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Rebuilding a Carpentries lesson on software citation taught me that the reframe that mattered wasn't a new standard. It was retargeting the whole lesson from researchers publishing their own code to librarians advising other people's.
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Giving our lesson catalog real metadata
A couple weeks ago I noticed our OSPO lesson catalog leaned hard toward one pathway. This week I went in and fixed the metadata underneath it. The cleanup taught me more than the result did.
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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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What would it take for a university OSPO to support its solo maintainers?
A working note: if critical open source rests on a few unpaid people, and some of them are inside the UC system, what could a university open source program office actually do about it?