The role of open source in the future of geoscience education
We discuss the role of open source practices, including versioning, collaboration and reproducibility in the future of geoscience education. Presented at the 2018 Reflex TechCon (http://reflexnow.com/tech-con-2018/)
histories • Build a foundation ◦ Basic principles of EM ◦ Set realistic expectations of EM • Promote development of an EM community http://disc2017.geosci.xyz Singapore
/ issue board? • How did they make that figure? • Is it Current? out of date? • Limited input / feedback • Reuse is limited ◦ copy paste writing ◦ licensing restrictions • Roadmap? Is there one? • Who do I ask? are there stewards of this work? • Limited collaboration opportunities ◦ 1 or 2 (the good ones have 2) • Diff? What changed in this version? ◦ version 1 is in the used book store and is $100 cheaper. What changed? - only question order? currently
content ◦ structure & organization essential https://em.geosci.xyz/content/case_histories/index.html • 17 contributors on github • 18 case histories on em geosci • 31 total contributors
9 18 21 26 26 52 -0.4 452 721 1040 30,421 130,171 textbook days tutorials case histories countries visited notebook apps locations worldwide contributors to em geosci IT staff clones of the apps powerpoint slides course participants users of em geosci page views of em geosci Doug Oldenburg & Seogi Kang Hyderabad, India