Building Communities in Computational Science
An OSS Watch / CCPForge Community Day
Friday 11 January 2008
Rutherford Appleton Lab, Oxfordshire
Do you want more people to use your software? Do you want it to interoperate with other pieces of software? Do you want it to be more robust and reliable? Do you want to involve more collaborators in the development of your software?
Come along to the OSS Watch / CCPForge Community Day and see how.
With speakers from OSS Watch, OMII and CCPForge as well as ChemShell and CCP1GUI, the day aims to first tell you how to do it and the help you achieve it in workshop sessions.
Program of the day
10:00-10:30 Arrive and coffee/tea/biscuits. People can set up laptops
10:30-10:40 David Worth (RAL) with an introduction
10:40-11:00 Ross Gardler (OSS Watch) on building community
11:00-11:20 Neil Chue Hong (OMII-UK) on building communities of software users
11:20-11:40 Stuart Yeates (OSS Watch) on tools for community
11:40-12:00 David Worth (RAL) on CCPForge
12:00-12:20 Johannes Kaestner (Daresbury) on ChemShell/DL-FIND
12:20-12:40 Paul Sherwood (Darebury) on CCP1GUI
12:40-13:00 David Worth (RAL) on software engineering/development
lifecycle
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Workshop session 1
15:30 Coffee/tea/biscuits arrive
15:30-16:30 Workshop session 2
The workshops will involve:
* Ross from OSS Watch working with people to develop a plan for build community around their project
* Johannes from the ChemShell project working with people who want to connect their software to the ChemShell software
* Paul from CCP1GUI project on working with people who want to build an interface with CCP1GUI or associated technology
* Neil from OMII-UK on community for the ways the software you’ve built is going to be sustained/supported/extended
* David from CCPForge working with people who want to get their code into a version control system and understanding how to use it going forward
* Stuart from OSS Watch working with people who want to understand or deploy community building tools
* Stuart from OSS Watch or David from Darebury working with people who want understand particulars software engineering technique
* Stuart or Ross from OSS Watch working with people who want licensing advice for software or content.
* Neil from OMII-UK on ways you could benefit from working with OMII
The OSS Watch / CCPForge Community Day is being held on Friday 11 January 2008 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/About/Find/RAL/Introduction.aspx
If you interested in coming along, please register with Dr David Worth
<d.j.worth@rl.ac.uk> by Tuesday 8 January 2008.
