Two weeks ago, on June 27th, we held an second on-line
hackathon
on reproducible research issues. This hackathon was a collaborative effort to
bring GNU Guix to concrete examples inspired by contributions to the online
journal ReScience C.
A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions.
A core tenet of science is the ability to independently verify
research results. When computations are involved, verifiability implies
reproducibility: one should be able to re-run the computations to ensure
they get the same results, at which point they may want to start
experimenting with variants of the computational methods, feed it
different data sets, and so on. This is the motivation behind our work
on Guix: we want to empower scientists by providing a tool in support of
reproducible computations and experimentation.
Static site generator is a program, which accepts text files as input
and produces static web pages as output. It can be useful in various
scenarios: for building blog, book, documentation, project or personal
page for example.
It's time to run the second Reproducible Research hackathon! The first one
was
from... 2020,
already! The date: Tuesday June, 27th. Start: 9h30 (CEST) End: 17h30.