Lessons from the Open Source Software communities
(and research software)
Introduction
Who am I?
David
@dpshelio - 
@dvdgc13
- I was a researcher
- I'm now a RSD
- I love teaching
- OpenAstronomy / SunPy (open source)
- Caprentries (teaching network)
- Sunspotter (citizen science)
Problems
For Teachers
- A place to share
- Get recognition
- Get contributors
For Learners
- Find material and trust it!
- Know the material is still being maintained!
- Be able to contribute back!
Open Source Software
Some examples
OSS vs Research software
OSS
- To be reused
- Repositories
- simple to contribute
Research
- Single use (many claim so!)
- Some link on a paper
- contribute back?
GitHub: open source software more open!
RSD engineering course material.
Metrics in …
open source
- Downloads (but GH doesn't give you the number).
- Forks
- Stars
- Contributors
Research software
- papers and citations
- publish software as such (Zenodo/Figshare) and Citation File Format.
OER
Impact
Downloads
- self-study (1 download = 1 person)
- delivery (1 download > 30 people)
- bots (1 download = 0 people)
Contributors
Make it easy for people to contribute (and get recognition).
- No PDF
- Share sources! not only final product. E.g., videos.
Remix
Make it easy for people to remix and let the source know!
- mix material
- produce translations
How?
- Create a new "social" network to include these requirements
- reuse what exists and provide mechanisms to help creators to use it.
- GitHub, gitlab, bitbucket
- Wikiversity, wikibooks
- Open Science Framework
- clara.io (3d models, e.g. jupiter)