Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Director of Strategy at the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
The inexpressible joys of setting up an international community...
...distilled into a series of impossible binary decisions
By Simon Hettrick
5 March 2018 - WAIS Seminar, Southampton @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Love to create
Love to criticise
Inclusive
Exclusive
Generic
Reductionist
Exciting
Dull
Software Sustainability Institute
Cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research
"People who work in academia but write code, not papers"
Founders of the UK RSE Association
1144 members
50 new members per month
The world is not binary
We think a lot of software is used in research
We think that a lot of researchers develop their own code
We think that a lot of those developers are largely untrained
We think that people who want to develop code end up sacrificing their career in academia
We think that there's a lot of bespoke software
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Creating an international community distilled into binary questions
By Simon Hettrick
Creating an international community distilled into binary questions
Web and Internet Science seminar series, 5 March 2018, University of Southampton, Southampton
