Code for Thought

English Edition: Open source is not only used in research/science. In this episode I want to shine a light on 2 open source applications: XWiki and CryptPad. You'll hear from Ludovic Dubos (CEO XWiki) and David Benqué (project lead, CryptPad). It's a great story about how you can make open source projects work - and last. Links: https://www.xwiki.org XWiki homepage https://try.xwiki.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8FN38yHaJA Ludovic Dubos at FOSDEM 2025https://cryptpad.org...

English Edition: In this edition of the ByteSized dRTP (STEP-UP) season Joe Wallwork from the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (https://iccs.cam.ac.uk/) is telling us why green computing matters. And in particular, how to make continuous integration/deployment more sustainable. Links: https://github.com/Cambridge-ICCS/green-ci The Green CI/CD GitHub toolhttps://cambridge-iccs.github.io/green-ci/ the documentation about ithttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/byte-s...

English edition: We all love a good pastry, but this CAKE is different. It's the Computational Abilities and Knowledge Exchange (CAKE). Eleanor Broadway, Marion Weinzierl and Nick Brown tell us what it's all about. And Tobias Weinzierl and Eva Fernandez-Amez explain what the HPC Days in Durham/UK have to do with CAKE. Links: https://www.cake.ac.uk/ CAKE home pagehttps://www.cake.ac.uk/funds/ funding projectshttps://www.cake.ac.uk/landscape/https://www.cake.ac.uk/events/202606...

Deutsche Ausgabe: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften wie die Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) oder die Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) spielen eine zentrale Rolle in Forschung und Lehre. In dieser Folge erzählen uns Robert Speck (FZJ) und Anna-Lena Lamprecht (Uni. Potsdam) wie sie neue Arbeitsgruppen zur Forschungssoftware in diesen Gesellschaften aufgebaut haben. Und warum. Links: https://gamm-ag-rse-rdm.github.io/ RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der GAMM https://www....

English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I met with the 2 co-founders, Rune Bjerkestrand and Katrina Leon to find out what's behind AWA and how data can be preserved for the longterm. Links https://arcticworldarchive.orghttps://piql.com the PIQL way of storing data on filmhttps://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/ Git...