NIU Open Software Week

Welcome!

Neuroinformatics Unit

Code of Conduct

  • Reminder: please follow the code of conduct
  • Summary: be kind, respectful and professional
  • Contacts: Adam, Sofia, Niko or Alessandro

Schedule

Maps

Ask a member of NIU for a quiet space

Ask for help

  • Ask any member of NIU
  • Use the OSW-2025 channel on Zulip
  • Work together
  • Let Adam know if you don’t want to appear in photos

Join the socials

  • Monday: walk to Primrose Hill
  • Tuesday: Celtic folk music in King’s Cross
  • Wednesday: pub quiz at SWC
  • Thursday: AlgoChill in Farringdon (sign up)

Feel free to self-organise using the “Social” topic on Zulip!

Made possible by

The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI)

https://www.software.ac.uk/

The SSI was the first organisation in the world dedicated to improving software in research. They help build better and more sustainable research software to enable world-class research.

Enjoy!

Hackday intro

Our definition of “hack”

“hack”: collaborate on a small project in quick, dirty and fun way

Schedule

  • 10-10:30 Intro/Pitches
  • 10:30-11 Group formation
  • 11-1 Hack
  • 1-2 Lunch
  • 2-4 Hack
  • 4-5 Report back

Goal

Enable knowledge exchange through hands-on work

Focus on collaboration:

  • Active listening
  • Being inclusive
  • Taking initiative
  • Planning
  • Stepping out of your comfort zone

Opportunity to foster:

  • Collaborative skills
  • Coding skills
  • Creativity skills
  • Social skills
  • Time-management skills

Hacking tips

Everyone gets opportunity to contribute

  • Be flexible and inclusive
  • Code is not the only thing that needs doing
  • Planning, documenting, organizing, presenting, reading, time-keeping…

Working together

  • Start by introducing yourself, your work and your skills to the group
  • Make use of GitHub, Shared google doc
  • Keep in touch with the group throughout

Look after yourself

  • Take breaks, stretch, rest your eyes
  • Enjoy

Hacking tips

  • Settle on doable plan

Things will go wrong – that’s OK!

  • Work incrementally and version-control your work
  • You have a very short amount of time!
  • Focus on minimum viable “product”

Report back in short lightning presentations at 4 PM (joint slide-deck)

  • What you did
  • What you learnt
  • Future work

We will check in regularly

What’s next

GitHub project board

Hack!