These are materials for our workshop at RSECon2023, taking place September 6th in Swansea UK. You will find links to workshop materials and activities to perform before and after the workshop.
The presented version and survey results are now published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8337479.
The workshop seeks to contribute to a better understanding of what sustainable research software is and how improving sustainability leads to increased impact.
Participants will finish the workshop having set up a software sustainability dashboard for their own selected projects and gained an understanding of how to improve the sustainability of their own projects.
The workshop will consist of;
- a short (20 minute) presentation from the organisers.
- half on hour of live coding using our sustainability dashboard template.
- half an hour of discussion (face to face and using mentimeter)
- A short wrap up.
- The template is designed to run on GitHub actions. Please create a GitHub account before the workshop.
- You will need Python and Git on your laptop.
To get the most out of the workshop participants can do the following optional activities:
- Please let us know a little about yourself with our pre-workshop survey.
- Take a look at our software sustainability dashboard template. Follow the instructions in the README.
- Think about whether the dashboard is going to work for your software.
- Is there other open-source software that you would like to try the dashboard on?
- Check out the further reading.
- Think about what you think sustainable software is.
- Think about what you think the most important metrics are for sustainable software.
- Get in touch and let us know if there's anything else you think should be covered in the workshop.
Raise an issue on our template
Fill in the pre-workshop questionnaire