Conveners
Open Source Community Building
- Inga Ulusoy (University of Heidelberg)
Open-source software development has become a fundamental driver for innovation in both academia and industry, fostering transparency and enabling collaboration among individuals who may not have formal training in computer science. Academic researchers benefit from open-source collaboration in several aspects: (1) User engagement in feature development and interfaces, enhancing the...
We'll explore the key lessons learned from planning and running several community workshops aimed at fostering the adoption and use of open-source tools, in this case the models REMIND and MAgPIE and their encompassing open source ecosystem. Our goals were to educate interested people who had no prior experience, deepen the understanding and capabilities of users already familiar with the...
Have you developed an open source scientific software and it has now become popular? Congratulations! Your software has entered a new phase of its life cycle, and you are now a community manager. Your new role includes: training the next generation of users, identifying and converting power users into contributors, fostering networking opportunities, and making your software visible to a wider...
After a lively and productive meet-up “Building a community around your Open Source research software” at the deRSE2024, we summarized and clustered all your input. Now at the deRSE2025 will present the key findings regarding the following questions:
- How to prepare research software for third-party users/developers?
- How to attract new third-party users/developers?
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