Open Research FOSDEM

🔴 We are live online until 16:40. Join us for some #OpenResearch, we have a brilliant programme: research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-...
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📣 ORDEM is happening tomorrow!

🌧️ If you don't have any plans for the weekend, and like here in Bologna it's pouring with rain, join us tomorrow for some #OpenResearch! We have a fantastic programme, no need to register, link's here: research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-...

See you tomorrow?

here tomorrow, er today gah.

The #FOSDEM2025 is over but we're having an additional online session with 9 talks from all around the world!

Saturday 15 February 2025
11:30 - 17:00

Schedule, including video link: research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-...

Let's 👏 make 👏 simpler 👏 code 👏

A really important talk and extremely relevant to the current technology landscape. It's not enough to do open source or be "transparent", we should follow the principle of no harm. Can our work be significantly harmful to a community or individual?

Find Malvika tomorrow at 10:00 in h3242 (BOF - TRackB) to discuss more about this.

There are 4 categories of the "Do Not Harm" Framework:

Do not harm means taking a step back to consider if the work that you are doing can possibly be significantly harming a community or an individual.

Looking at literature, Malvika discovered Do Not Harm is actually compatible with open models, but there are some known harms of #data and #tech:

The Do No Harm Project

Malvika stumbled upon the Do Not Harm project a few years ago and was suprised to see that there were no direct links to #opensource and #openscience.

www.urban.org/projects/do-...

🔴 @malvikasharan.bsky.social is delivering the last talk of the day about Applying the "Do No Harm" Principle to Open* Practices and Technology

Here are some of the questions that shaped the Parsl processes:

The path to sustainability also involves reducing technical debt and making the code simpler, so it is just easier to maintain.

But now, what about sustainability of such a project? Currently resources are mainly coming from grants, external funding from projects that depend on Parsl, and volunteer in kind efforts.

Parsl was released in 2020 as v1, and it is now releasing weekly, although those releases are mostly maintenance rather than adding new features.

Daniel is going to look into the Parsl project
parsl-project.org

Parsl is used by individual researchers and larger consortia in many different domains as astrophysics, biology, and any academic field that has to deal with large volumes of data.

Daniel Katz is now telling us about *Research Software, Sustainability, and RSEs*

With an open and community-driven approach, Wikirate assesses Modern Slavery statements. The assessment considers whether companies are releasing statements that really meet the legal requirements, but also if they detail policies and actions that go beyond compliance. The short answer is: NO.

As modern slavery still persists in the supply chain of a lot of the stuff we use everyday, what can we do? One way to tackle this is ensuring supply chain #transparency.

It's time to hear about *Beyond Compliance: Assessing Modern Slavery Statements using the Wikirate platform* from Vasiliki Gkatziaki
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REMINDER that if you are not in Brussels you can always follow our Devroom online:
live.fosdem.org/watch/aw1126

If instead you are in Brussels, join us at 19:30 at Le Tavernier for a drink and a discussion!

Great way to start the day with Peter Murray Rust's talk about #OpenKnowledge graphs for climate & the great stuff #semanticClimate is doing in the @fosdemresearch.bsky.social. I finally got to meet Chuff, the @okfn.bsky.social okapi, who came all this way to see me! 💚
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Now Teresa Gomez-Diaz is presenting
*The conundrum challenges for Research Software and Research Data in Open Science*
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It's a long day! But we'll get our brains refreshed with some beers at Tavernier at 19:30 😉

Lots of interesting discussions, presentations and interactions at the @fosdemresearch.bsky.social at #fosdem2025 . But I do confess my brain is starting to get a bit frazzled 😵‍💫

But what does repair look in the case of data donation?
It could be building alternative infrastructures and formalising trust through policy.

Dwayne also mentioned the EU data altruism regime (which not a lot of people in the room seemed to know) to ensure there is trust and transparency.

Lets start by the basics: what is repair?
It can be anything in between breakdown and solution. Wikipedia moderation or community-led software maintenance are also good examples.

Dwayne shares a few good reads on the topic

Now a much needed talk (and discussion) on *Voluntary data sharing is broken: Data donation for scientific research as site of digital repair*, presented by Dwayne Ansah
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🔴 Live now Jonathan Starr presenting *Building Bridges Between Researchers, Technologists, and Infrastructure*
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They need more volunteers and funding!
Reach out to Debs if you want to collaborate in such an interesting and rewarding project!