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Repo for the April 10-12 workshop to be held in Berkeley, CA
http://urssi.us/workshops/berkeley/
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Open source software: bridge between research in academia and industry #32

Open mpacer opened 6 years ago

mpacer commented 6 years ago

Discussion topic: Open source software: bridge between research in academia and industry

Brief description of issue/challenge: Many of the tools most widely shared between researchers in academia and researchers in industry have been developed by the open source community. In particular, tools in the python (numpy, scipy, scikit-image, sklearn, matplotlib), R and other ecosystems offer important points of common interest. However, much of the development is done by volunteers in their free time (whether they work as academic or industry researchers).

How do we encourage recognition of the value of this work in both academia and industry contexts so that it can be part of more people's core responsibilities?

Lead/moderator: M Pacer (?)

Links to resources:

abbycabs commented 6 years ago

Leaving a comment to say I'm interested in this!

choldgraf commented 6 years ago

Another way of framing this: open source software has use volunteer labor to create a ton of value for for-profit companies. What are models by which some of that value could be returned back to the open-source community? What conditions need to be met in order to make these relationships more explicitly defined and useful to the interested communities (e.g., academia, large companies, small companies)?

abbycabs commented 6 years ago

On the topic of labour, this group might be interested one of Mozilla's projects: Project Bugmark to bring a futures trading market to open source software development, with the thought that it might help in areas where problems persist due to lack of adequate incentives, such as work no one wants to do (documentation) and work in which collaboration is often necessary but not well supported by existing programs (e.g. security flaws and bug bounties).

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Day 2 discussion Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XIs50apuF1lWLb72XCHcfgBAaU7MS9WFMMpKEkP4uQ/edit?usp=sharing