Maya Anderson-González

Looking back at 4 years of Open research tools and technologies devroom, we propose an open discussion on what's been done and what's to do. The panel will be held by the devroom organisers and will present a brief wrap-up of the 2023 edition, before opening the floor to the attendance. We are looking for feedback regarding the event itself, and inputs about its part in the community. Where are we, and where should we go from here?

Other people: Paul Girard Matthieu Totet Mathieu Jacomy Diego Antolinos-Basso Sara Petti

Panel discussion between speakers of the visual inquiries session.

Other people: Robin De Mourat Célya Gruson-Daniel Laurent MILLET-LACOMBE Evgeny Karev

The Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom managers welcome words announcing the schedule.

This years the Open Research devroom schedule has been organized in thematic panels:

• Academics developing software testimonies panel
• Visual inquiries panel
• Policies panel
• Artificial Intelligence Panel
• Open Hardware Panel
• Standards panel
• Knowledge management communities panel
• Open Data Panel

Other people: Paul Girard Matthieu Totet Mathieu Jacomy Célya Gruson-Daniel Yo Yehudi Sara Petti

This talk aims to give a user’s perspective on FLOSS tools for open research in social science. It will be based on personal experience with a team project that aimed to analyze the Twitter follow graph of last year’s FOSDEM and CHAOSScon participants. The project used open source tools and agile management: data was collected with a command line tool (Twarc), network visualization was done with Gephi, and Framagit provided a collaborative framework for managing code, data, visualization and text.

Implementing this project led to insight about what it takes for social scientists who have minimal tech knowledge and culture, to practice open research with FLOSS tools. This talk will specifically address three types of challenges I faced : training, documenting, and collaborating.

This talk will be particularly relevant for people who are designing FLOSS tools in interdisciplinary research environments. More generally, it can be of interest to people who attended the Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom talks in 2020.