Publish your research!

Research is often payed by public money, so the results should be available to the public as well! - This demand is heard a lot and one of the good reasons to publish research software as open source software.
At GPN18 I gave a talk called "Publish your research! - Warum öffentlich finanzierte Forschung nicht veröffentlicht wird" which tries to give an overview why this is not happening. Attention: It's in German.

Conference organization 101

To run a conference is a lot of work. And I know what I am talking about: I am part of the organization team of FrOSCon since years, and also was one of the main organizers of EuroPython 2014, PyCon.DE 2013, and ProvenanceWeek 2014. I also organize internal workshops for work and help our at a lot of other conferences I attend.

To make this work easier (especially IT) people tend to develop tools which support them. The problem is that these tools often stay internal or at least completely invisible.

To change this I held for the first time a talk on my own conference and presented (open source) tools which were created by conference organizers for conference organizers.
Unfortunately (for Non-German speakers) the talk is in German.

 

If you dislike YouTube, you can also watch and download the video here: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2016-1833-konferenzorganisation_101