opensource.md

Open Source Resources & Discussion

Open Source Software where the source code is available free of cost with terms that allow dissemination and adaptation.

On this page, we are seeking contributions of resources and discussion around the topic of open source.

To contribute to the list of resources or discussion on open source, please click the pencil icon to edit the file in your fork of this project, make your changes, and submit a pull request! Please make a note if your resouce or discussion point is field-specific.

Resources

What open source resources are available?

For example:

• What open source mediums are available?
• What topics should be covered under the Open Source umbrella of the toolkit?
• Do you have any questions regarding open source?

List them here (feel free to include as long or short a description as you like and any links, or if you have further ideas for topics that fall under the umbrella of open source):

• Topic: Writing good documentation
  • guides.github.com/features/wikis
  • github.com/PharkMillups/beautiful-docs
• Topic: Where can you publish software papers?
  • arxiv.org/help/submit - useful discussion - academia.stackexchange.com/questions/75325/why-do-people-publish-on-arxiv-instead-of-other-places
  • researchgate.net
• Topic: Licensing
  • choosealicense.com
  • tldrlegal.com
• Topic: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
• Topic: Version Control (e.g. Git)
  • git-scm.com/about
  • git-scm.com/docs
• Topic: Collaborative coding
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
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Discussion

What are the barriers to making your codes and scripts open source?

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What are the benefits?

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