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FAIR4RS BoF

CodeRefinery project

Radovan Bast @__radovan

Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration/ UiT The Arctic University of Norway

CodeRefinery

We teach tools and practices for the development of reproducible and reusable research software.

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CodeRefinery: strategy statement

CodeRefinery acts as a .emph[hub for FAIR] (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) .emph[software practices]. It currently focuses on the Nordic/Baltic countries, but aims to expand beyond this region. CodeRefinery aims to operate as a community project with support from academic organizations.

We wish to provide

  • .emph[For organizations]: an opportunity to pool competence and offer more training and development opportunities than they could individually.
  • .emph[For volunteers and the team]: a community around teaching and opportunity for skill development, both in pedagogy and practical skills.
  • .emph[For learners]: a welcoming and useful environment for learning many necessary practical skills that may otherwise not be explicitly taught. This can be through courses, hackathons, and the like.

CodeRefinery: stats

History

  • Project grew out of a 1-week course started at KTH Stockholm in 2014
  • Since 2016 funded by NeIC:
    • 31 full workshops
    • 25 other workshops/events
    • 3 instructor training events
    • over 1600 persons trained across all academic disciplines
  • Last 4 workshops: 8 volunteer instructors, over 80 volunteer helpers

We just got funding for 3 more years 🎉

Typical curriculum

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  • Basic and collaborative Git
  • Code review
  • Social coding and open software
  • Reproducible research
  • Jupyter notebooks
  • Code documentation
  • Automated testing
  • Modular code development

All our material is open and CC-BY

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3 days on-site in person

Now: 6 half-days online

Dates for 2022

  • March 22-24, 29-31
  • September 20-22, 27-29 ]

CodeRefinery: bridging the gap

Scaling up during 2020: effective team work

  • Before 2020: ~25 participants, ~2 helpers
  • Now: routinely 100+ participants, 20+ helpers
  • Lectures & code-along exercises in the main room: .emph[stream and also record]
  • Get help and group exercises in a breakout room
  • Participants can register as teams (.emph["bring your own breakout room"])
  • Installation sessions and helper preparation sessions
  • Asynchronous Q&A via HackMD -> we publish these (example)

More details

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Who is our community?

What is our impact?

Pre-workshop survey: Who comes to our workshops?

Pre-workshop survey: Programming languages

Post-workshop survey: impact on usage of tools

Post-workshop survey: impact on code quality and collaboration

  • 284 answers

FAIR principles have many aspects

  • Principles
  • Best practices
  • Policies
  • Standards
  • Governance model
  • Development of tools
  • .emph[Training] (version control, notebooks, documentation, code review, version control for dependencies, licenses, testing)
  • .emph[Mentorship]

Future/challenges

  • Transitioning to a community project
  • Expand beyond the Nordic/Baltic region
  • Towards a non-profit organization
  • Make it easier for organizations and individuals to join
  • Give .emph[better credit] for volunteer contributions
  • Offer not only training but also .emph[mentorship network]
  • FAIR software practices survey
  • How to better advertise and reach and connect the community?