From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: good practices in science Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:28:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20200403135421.5f800ffa@hulten.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jKNIm-0004DU-Bm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:28:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKNIl-0006Gu-7h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:28:08 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:40297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKNIk-0006EL-UQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:28:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200403135421.5f800ffa@hulten.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marco van Hulten , Guix Devel Hi Marco, > Are there any natural scientists here? I have no idea how numerous we are, but yes, there are. As for myself, I am in computational biophysics. > I am sending this to this list because Guix is an obvious tool for > scientific (and other) computing. None of my collegues anywhere in > the world have heard of it and they are not interested when I mention > it. (Furthermore, brendyyn on #guix suggested this list.) Don't worry, that will change. > In my mind, this must mean that one writes plain text everywhere. > This is plain/text for e-mail, LaTeX for papers, code is code, > Markdown or similar for most other documents. All this is in version > control. You can push, share, collaborate quite easily. Anyone is > free to make a pretty PDF of it or do whatever else. Because, of > course it is all free as in speech. You know all this. That is a workflow which is being advocated increasingly. You could point your doubting colleagues to this MOOC, for example: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41016+self-paced/about (disclaimer: I am one of its authors). Guix is not covered there, but it will in a more advanced sequel currently under preparation. > I would like to find a community where I can do science in a good way. > I want to use free software and would like to collaborate through > version control, IRC, Jitsi, well formatted e-mails. Does such a > community exist? It is growing. I can't say about your field or your neigbourhood, but check out communities such as The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/), which is organizing tutorials all around the globe to teach the tools that you like. Cheers, Konrad