Monthly Archives: January 2015

Licensing Astrophysics Codes session at AAS 225

Posted on January 27, 2015 by astrocompute

On Tuesday, January 6, the ASCL, AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS), and the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment sponsored a special session on software licenses, with support from the AAS. This subject was suggested as a topic of interest … Continue reading →

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It’s impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers

Posted on January 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the the title of a blog post at the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, which reports the results of a survey conducted amongst 417 UK researchers across many disciplines. This is the most extensive survey of its type conducted … Continue reading →

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Collaborating With GitHub – 225th AAS Meeting

Posted on January 13, 2015 by astrocompute

We are in the process of making the making the Montage mosaic engine accessible through GitHub, so it was good timing to attend the workshop on Collaborating With GitHub at the 225th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle, WA … Continue reading →

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Software Carpentry Workshop at the 225th AAS Meeting

Posted on January 5, 2015 by astrocompute

Many of you have heard of the Software Carpentry Foundation, started some years ago by Greg Wilson, a non-profit organization whose members teach researchers basic software skills. The organization exists to teach fundamental software engineering practices to scientists, who in … Continue reading →

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