Hi All

This workshop, and the Institute itself, may be useful to those of you in the UK with software ideas

Amber

And don't forget the OER Hack Day
See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2011/01/06/jisc-cetis-oer-technical-interest-group/


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Subject: Collaborations Workshop 2011 (3-4 March, Edinburgh)

On Behalf of the Software Sustainability Institute (apologies for cross 
posting)

The Software Sustainability Institute is looking for new areas of work 
to take forward in 2011. We're interested in ideas that will improve the 
long-term sustainability of software by improving its code base, 
increasing community size or branching established software into new 
markets.

The Collaborations Workshop 2011 (3-4 March, Edinburgh) is the perfect 
environment for us to do this, and we'd like to get you to contribute 
through two sets of activities at the workshop: lightning talks/posters, 
and the Ideas Room.

Visit the Collaborations Workshop website for more details 
(http://www.software.ac.uk/home/cw11).

Registration for the workshop closes on 28 February 2011.


Lightning Talks and Posters

We want to know more! Tell the workshop about the software you use, 
develop or covet. Introduce yourself and your research. Let us know 
about the things you've learned or the things that have frustrated you. 
Pose a question or suggest an answer. Make an appeal for new 
collaborators. Just do it in five minutes or one sheet of A1!

This is a chance to share your knowledge and experience with the 
workshop and perhaps spark ideas in the other attendees - see below for 
how to suggest a topic you want to present.


Ideas Room

So you've seen the lightning talks, you've perused the posters. Now 
everyone at the workshop has the chance to dream up their ideal 
scenario. What would you like to see happen that would make a difference 
to your work? Brainstorm ideas with other attendees, fine tune them with 
the SSI team and other experts, discuss them over dinner and drinks.

When you're ready to share them, get those ideas down on paper. On the 
second day we'll give everyone the chance to look at the ideas and 
decide what's most important for them. From this we'll see what are the 
hot topics in the community that the SSI should be addressing.


What are we looking for?

We are looking for areas where the Software Sustainability Institute can 
make a difference by working in collaboration with other research or 
infrastructure groups to improve the stability, usability or 
extensibility of an important software tool with the ultimate goal of 
enabling better research. The suggestions should be timely, address 
well-defined problems and result in added engagement from the community. 
Our focus is on software sustainability, whether through re-engineering, 
improved testing, community building, documentation or usability analyses.


Interested in giving a lightning talk or poster?

Email us at [log in to unmask] with the following information:

- Name of person presenting
- Name of institution
- Title
- A couple of sentences describing what you're going to talk about

The deadline for submission is 28 February 2011.

For more information on the Collaborations Workshop, visit the workshop 
website (http://www.software.ac.uk/home/CW11).


Who are the Software Sustainability Institute?

We are a national facility that enables better research by supporting 
the building of better software. We can work with your project providing 
consultancy or effort in software development, community building, 
publicity or project management. The projects we are currently working 
with are listed on our website (http://www.software.ac.uk/who-do-we-work).




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