Path to Open Platforms - new chapter for the Turing Way
CW22 - 2022-04-04 Collaborative Ideas session group: G-Ginkgo Participants Sarah Gibson, 2i2c, sgibson@2i2c.org Arielle Bennett, The Alan Turing Institute Morane Gruenpeter, Software Heritage, morane@softwareheritage.org James Byrne, RSE @ British Antarctic Survey, jambyr@bas.ac.uk Mohamed Selim, Project Leader, EMBL-EBI, mselim@ebi.ac.uk Patricia Herterich, DCC, University of Edinburgh, p.herterich@ed.ac.uk Some ideas/challenges: Running open infrastructure requires skills that are really hard to learn and most PIs (senior people) do not understand/care about it Avoiding vendor lock in People don’t mind paying for this (but do they care if it’s open?...