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.left-column50[ .fat[1:] Who we are
.fat[2:] Our work
.fat[3:] What we have learned
.fat[4:] Unsolved problems
.fat[5:] How you can help ]
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Radovan Bast @__radovan
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Team and project: coderefinery.org
- Project started in 2016, now we are in phase 3 until 2025
- Partners: NeIC (1 FTE), Aalto University, ENCCS, CSC, DeIC, Sigma2, SNIC, T1C for interactive HPC (DK), USIT/UiO
- Over 2000 persons trained
- Over 30 instructors/speakers, over 100 helpers and exercise leads
- Pioneering teaching methods
- Working in public
- Lesson material
- Video recordings
- Manuals
- Training network
- Brand
- Impact
- Community
- Knowledge
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- Version control
- Collaboration using Git
- Testing
- Documentation
- Notebooks
- Modular code development
- Reproducible research
- Software licensing
- How to share and publish code
- ...
Lessons and recordings: https://coderefinery.org/lessons/ ]
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- Assemble band
- On-board new band members
- Organize venue
Tour bus and hotel- Announce
- Print posters and advertise
- Set playlist
- Deal with tickets and cancellations
- Provide rehearsal space
- Rehearse and update the set
- Provide security and manage audience
- Sound check
- Tune the instruments
- .emph[Play the show]
- Broadcast, light, and record
- Clean up
- Give interviews
- Edit and publish recording
- Publish memoirs
- Get money for the next tour ] .right-column40[
.cite[Copyright 1980 Atlantic Records, fair use] ]
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.cite[(c) Samantha Wittke]
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.cite[(c) Samantha Wittke]
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.cite[(c) Samantha Wittke]
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- Learners and volunteers typically join for a short time
- Building long lasting relationships takes effort
- .emph[Outreach and marketing] takes time and work
- .emph[Coordination effort] starts to outweigh lesson preparation and teaching
- The importance of .emph[communicating value to organizations]
- .emph[GDPR]: "check this box if you are OK with us informing you about similar events organized by us"
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- Code repository hosting for Nordic research software: https://coderefinery.org/repository/
- Over 300 active users, 175 groups, with over 400 active projects
- ~50k DKK/ year
- ca. 2 USD per active user and month
- Funding beyond 2024/2025 unclear
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- This is in the project plan
- Do we have any experience with this within NeIC?
- In UK there exists the legal form "Community interest company": profits and assets are used "for the public good"
- But who (person and/or organization) will take it up and carry the fiscal and legal risks?
"maintaining code for general public use quickly becomes an unpaid job you can't quit" .cite[Nadia Asparouhova]
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- Make myself more redundant
- Put the project on the map
- Non-profit organization
- .emph[Better communicate expectations, needs, and goals]
- More micro-content creation
- Empower and facilitate efforts
- Make this a fun project/place to work and contribute to
- Make this something that people put on their CVs
- Make this something that organizations put on their homepages
- Better on-board those who want to help
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.fat[1:] Join as observer and give feedback and suggestions
.fat[2:] Co-organize, co-create, co-teach with us
.fat[3:] Outreach, advertizing, marketing, social media
.fat[4:] GitLab future
.fat[5:] Know-how about organizational legal forms in the Nordics