Welcome to the organisation repository for the Software Sustainability Unconference.
Here you can see the currently proposed sessions, and propose sessions yourself.
See tips for leading a session if you want to lead a session.
In short, an unconference is an event where the agenda is set by the people who attend the event.
We use this git repository to collect ideas for sessions before the conference starts. You can also propose more sessions while at the conference. Sessions will be scheduled while the conference is running.
There are four basic rules for the sessions at unconferences:
- Whoever shows up are the right people
- Whatever happens is fine
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- It is over when it’s over
These rules sound a bit vague, and this is on purpose to allow to fit them to different events. For the context of this particular unconference, we have the following interpretation:
If you are interested in a session, you are the target audience. Even if you don't feel like you have sufficient subject level expertise for a particular topic, please don't let that stop you. The goal of this unconference is to learn, and then share the results with all of the NNF centers.
Whatever happens is fine (within the Code of Conduct). While the overall goal of the unconference is to create a document with recommendations for software sustainability at the NNF centers and beyond, individual sessions don't have a required outcome. Sessions might not have a tangible outcome but then fertilize another session.
We do allocate slots for sessions, but if you come up with a session idea in the middle of a time slot, feel free to add it to the program and start anyway.
As mentioned above, we do allocate time slots to sessions. But don't feel like you cannot end sessions earlier if it feels like everything has been said already.
If at any time you feel like you are no longer interested in a session, feel free to leave and join another session. You should also feel free to take a break if you need one, sometimes the best ideas occur during this "down time".
If you are having a discussion in a small group, always leave room for one more person to join. Be like Pac-Man 😉
Here are some tips for all attendees of the conference to help make your conference experience more useful and enjoyable.
This event is designed to help you and the other attendees to talk and learn from each other.
Go to the sessions you find interesting.
If you are interested in a topic that you can't find on the agenda, you should propose a session.
Day 1
- 08:30 – 09:00 Registration, coffee and light breakfast 🥐
- 09:00 – 09:15 Introduction and presentation of the unconference theme and agenda
- 09:15 – 10:15 1st Keynote Carole Goble, "Better Software Better Research", Software Sustainability Institute
- 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break ☕
- 10:30 – 12:00 Presentation of topics and meeting room allocation
- 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch 🥙
- 13:30 – 14:30 2nd Keynote by Tim Gardner, CEO at Riffyn
- 14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break ☕
- 14:45 – 17:15 Beginning of the unconference activities (multiple sessions in parallel), participant-driven
- 17:15 – 17:30 Coffee break ☕
- 17:30 – 18:00 Lightning talks presenting the session results; vote on most pressing issue
- 18:00 – 18:30 Free time
- 18:30 – 20:00 Dinner 🍝
- 20:00 – (open ended) Networking 🍸
Day 2
- 8:00 – 09:00 Breakfast (checkout until 9:00 latest) 🥐
- 9:00 – 09:30 Short recap of Yesterday’s activities plus room organization
- Two activities in parallel (including coffee ☕ breaks at 10:15 –10:30 and lunch 🥙 at 12:00–13:00):
- 09:30 – 14:00 Focused session on most pressing issue determined on the 1st day
- 09:30 – 14:00 Workshop on Docker and how it can be used for reproducible computational workflows
- 14:00 – 14:15 Cake 🍰
- 14:15 – 15:00 Synthesis of previous sessions into 10 “simple” recommendations
- 15:00 – 15:15 Closing remarks by organizers
- 15:15 – 16:30 Preparation of 10 “simple” recommendations outline/draft by the organizers