Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26
Code is Science Manifesto - HP10-CW18
Hackday Idea Proposer
Yo Yehudi - yochannah@gmail.com
This document should be used to capture the information for a Hack Day Idea.
Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OeaUt5UtSwVGxGv2uWqZoNBPvNzJFQyoYQg3isuXBcY/edit#slide=id.p
Context / Research Domain
All scientific code!
Problem
Science is often computing: Much of modern science involves code these days, in large part due to the amount of data available - it would be almost impossible to analyse without computational assistance.
Science requires peer review: One of the basic prerequisites for any published scientific results is that it be reviewed by peers, to ensure the research and conclusions are valid.
Software contains errors: We may try pretty hard to write software without bugs, but they definitely still happen - and errors can be hard to spot. The bug doesn’t have to cause catastrophic and obvious failure - it could be silent but sneaky.
Solution
- Write a manifesto
- Create a “sign this manifesto” website infrastructure
What do we need:
● People who care about Open Source - don’t have to be coders! ● People who would like to help code the site so people can sign the manifesto