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The CodeRefinery project

Radovan Bast @__radovan

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

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CodeRefinery

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

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12 persons are on contract (~ 3 FTE), funding until Oct 2021
Major in-kind partner: Aalto Scientific Computing
Major training hubs: Aalto, Stockholm, Oslo, Trondheim

Network

173 persons on https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com/
552 followers on @coderefine

Workshops

Since 2016:
- 30 full workshops
- 19 other workshops/events
- 3 instructor training events
- over 1400 persons trained
last 3 workshops: 8 volunteer instructors, over 60 volunteer helpers ]

Typical curriculum: 3 days or 6 half-days

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

CodeRefinery and Carpentries

Carpentries "teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide"
Our target audience are students and researchers who already write code

A vision of reaching many people at once

Scaling up during 2020: effective team work

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

More details

Future and challenges

We are a Nordic project but this is not a Nordic-only problem
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Better credit for volunteers and in-kind contributions
Possibly establish a non-profit organization
Governance model
Welcoming atmosphere and diversity

How to get involved

Progression: workshop participant -> .emph[helper/ exercise leader] -> instructor training -> instructor -> lesson contributor
https://coderefinery.org
Community chat open to all: https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com
Lesson sources: https://github.com/coderefinery
Twitter: @coderefine
Newsletter: https://coderefinery.org/outreach/#the-coderefinery-newsletter

Let us collaborate!

Lesson reuse, remixing, contributions, and suggestions most welcome
.emph[Collaboration on lessons and workshops] most welcome

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