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#RSECon25 is starting today! For me will be full (if not exclusively) of #OpenSource sessions. Let's enjoy the show.
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We start #RSECon25 with a Keynote of @AmandaBrock ( @openuk ).
She has published Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (available free at https://academic.oup.com/book/44727 ) and it's also translated to 官话.
#SOOCON26 will be happening on 3-4 Feb 2026 https://stateofopencon.com/
Following the #OpenSourceDefinition as by @osi , says on points 5. and 6. that no discrimination between users or uses (including commercial)
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Open Source Law, Policy and Practice

Abstract. This book examines various policies, including the legal and commercial aspects of the Open Source phenomenon. Here, ‘Open Source’ is adopted as conve

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Why do Govs want OS? Historically for being able to reuse what's been created by public money and to avoid #lockIn, however, many are through a service layer (eg. Cloud)

@openuk has created a visualisation to help with the language of opennes.

Three generations of #openSource, e.g Linux, Kubernetes, AI. We need generation 2 and 3 to understand what Open Source means.

UK has mor pero capita GH accounts (6.1% in 2024).
Picture shows heat map of GH accounts, pockets at unis
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What happens in academia?
We have to make better than industry, and benefit from the #openSource power.
Shout out to @swheritage

#OpenSource needs funding. As a public good, to collaborate together.

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#questions
- opinion #GPL? It allows not to distribute it.
- does release research code as open make it difficult from industrial partners to support it? If you want to patent or commercialise it as such dond do it. But there are ways to monitarise check ch 16 of book listed above
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We go now to #RSECon25 #sponsors ⚡talks
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Isambard-AI (BriCS) + dawn (Cambridge) forms the AIRR in UK designed for academia, Industry and other UK orgs.
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Methods||| explore the barriers, enablers and real-world needs of researchers to use the cloud
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nuvolos - the data science operating system (whatever that means)
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ATI Research Engineering Group - they are generalists 🦎
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Univ of Sheffield #RSE group has cool merch
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2í2c only uses #OpenSource @2i2c_org
Contributing to JupyterLab, JupyterBook, JupyterHub and administrators of those systems
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Leading #HPC, #training, and national infrastructure @EPCC
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HDRUK 🔒TREvolution by DARE UK
Offers funding for #RTPs for many activities
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The reason for the good weather today: @metoffice
They've got prizes and weather observing equipment

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OQC provides a full-stock quantum computing
First company to deploy a quantum computer to a commercial data centre
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#BetterSoftwareBetterResearch @SoftwareSaved provides training, policy, research, fellowships and much more
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Tokamak Energy based on Oxford are proud of proprietary digital tools and have a cool control room. They brought a 3D model on the stand
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#UCL Grand Challenges on Data Empowered Societies is sponsoring too! (and I had understood the charity rules stopped us doing so 🙄)
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#UKRI #DRI programme supports communities, ASCEND capturing the needs of the community , also the CoSeC program. And #RSEing as a theme, promoting #EDI
What are our contributions to the international community? Standards, language committes, etc..
@jensjensen
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#RSECon25 poster⚡ talks 🧵
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Want to publish your code? Want to become an editor? Check @joss
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It's time to decarbonise digital research
3 projects: Green RSE, Green Disco and NetDrive
@SoftwareSaved
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FAIR² for research software. A training program by #RSE #sheffield
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We need to update our land surface models.
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Bridging bench and code: #RSEs driving Omics
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Enabling research software excellence through #RSE community conversations
@jyoti_bhogal @saranjeet Anelda and Mireille
Careers, #openSource, #Docs, ...
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Reimagine digital a11y: from compliance to collective responsibility at @kingsdigitallab
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Developing the GOTO 🔭 control system - #RSE #sheffield
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Training and mentoring, open research, and open incubator are the three pillars of #OLS
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DRIFT - DRI-focused training for research facilitators and teams https://drtp-skills.ac.uk/
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dRTP Skills Facilitating development of digital research technical skills

Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) are an integral part of the modern process of scientific discovery. The goal of this website is to facilitate the process of discovery and development of digital research technical skills.

dRTP Skills
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Leveraging GH API data to evaluate Git and GH training outcomes. #RSE #sheffield
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AutoEmulate (ATI) replace complex simulations with fast emulators.
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Pyonb - OCR tools containerised SaMD #UCLH #UCL
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Deploying and customising KerkoApp (#york)
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Intermediate Research Software development lesson ( @thecarpentries incubator lesson 🥚)
Pick your editor, hands-on software design, multiple delivery styles.
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gprMax + MPI - computational electrodynamics
Python + openMP + CUDA
@EPCC
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RPlaywright: bridging Playwright to R for reproducible web automation in research ( #warwick )
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Create impactful scientific visualisations from your laptop!
@Blender remote render Brr
Interface to connect with an HPC. @EPCC
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CATS: The Climate Aware Task Scheduler
Because the world is on fire. It works on AT and Slurm schedulers.
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