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Embedding Openness in Our Universities Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Three ideas we should steal from Open Source Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported License Arfon Smith @arfon
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What is a GitHub?
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2013 2014 Users
4,000,000 8,000,000 12,000,000 16,000,000 20,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
2012 2013 2014 Repositories
Why build a GitHub?
Made writing code a social experience 1.
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Changed the collaborative model of open source 2.
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‘May I have access to your codes please?’
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From 653314448c7c6f6ec2f93de346896895f786773f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arfon Smith
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> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:37:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Bust that cache --- lib/linguist/repository.rb | 14 ++++++++++++-- test/test_repository.rb | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/linguist/repository.rb b/lib/linguist/repository.rb index 1f9e09c..9998ee6 100644 --- a/lib/linguist/repository.rb +++ b/lib/linguist/repository.rb @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ require 'linguist/lazy_blob' require 'rugged' - +require 'pry' module Linguist # A Repository is an abstraction of a Grit::Repo or a basic file # system tree. It holds a list of paths pointing to Blobish objects. @@ -128,13 +128,23 @@ def current_tree protected def compute_stats(old_commit_oid, cache = nil) - file_map = cache ? cache.dup : {} old_tree = old_commit_oid && Rugged::Commit.lookup(repository,
GitHub delivered on a theoretical promise of open source
Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify
Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify, not
the right to contribute.
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Open source collaborations Forking a project was done as a
last resort
Open source collaborations GitHub made forking the norm
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1. Open Collaborations
Open source collaborations Open Source vs Open Collaborations
Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify
Open source collaborations Open Collaborations: a highly collaborative development process
and are receptive to contributions of code, documentation, discussion, etc from anyone who shows competent interest.
Open source collaborations Open Collaborations: a highly collaborative development process
and are receptive to contributions of code, documentation, discussion, etc from anyone who shows competent interest. THIS
How do 4000 people work together?
The pull request
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discuss improve Code first, permission later
Exposed process
Every time this happens the community learns
Academia makes the same promise
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Explain what you did
So that others can repeat
Everybody learns
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(doesn’t have to mean this) Open Public? =
Open (within your team, department or institution)
Electronic & Available
Exposed process
Exposed process
Exposed process
Asynchronous & Lock-free
Open, low friction collaborations
Culture of Reuse 2.
A story from my life (~10 years ago)
http://amandabauer.blogspot.com/
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2 days work 3 observing runs/week 52 weeks in year
15 year detector lifetime 2*3*52*15 = 4680 days (13 years)
A second story from my life (~6 months ago)
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Software composed of many components
Your software is the thing that is different
Open Source: Ubiquitous culture of reuse
Verification 3.
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Robots doing work
“open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html
Why steal ideas from open source?
Academic landscape is changing
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A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR SOFTWARE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND
EDUCATION
Open is the new normal
Software & Data Services
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New tools. New ways of working.
New tools. New ways of publishing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaleaver/
Reproducibility Data intensive
Complex (unpublished) things Numbers, data Science!
Verification & benchmarking services Likely thing #1:
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Software is an unforgiving medium
Automating processes
Benchmarking services
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Most innovation around shared challenges/data products Likely thing #2:
10 ? n Level 1 (continual) Level 2 (periodic)
Software composed of many components
Your software is the thing that is different
Open Source: Ubiquitous culture of reuse
Ecosystem around data products
Stars Rocks SN WR NEOs Josh Bloom’s Type Ia supernovae
Level 1 (continual) 10 n
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‘Normal’ citations won’t be sufficient for software Likely thing #3:
“Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed
Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
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“publishing a paper about code is basically just advertising” David
Donoho http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Video.html
Transitive Credit
Paper Author 1 Author 2 Paper Software Data 0.2 0.2
0.4 0.1 0.1 Paper Software Software Author 1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5117, Katz & Smith
Authorship isn’t static
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Where does progress come first?
Where do communities form?
Around a shared challenge?
Around shared data?
Be more exact
Where peers can most easily recognise value
Open source has solved much of what academia needs
The challenge is to adapt and evolve the academy in
this new collaborative age
Thanks.
[email protected]
@arfon #