The Big Effects of Short-term Efforts: Mentorship and Code Integration in Open Source Scientific Software

Scientific progress relies crucially on software, yet in practice there are significant challenges to scientific software production and maintenance. We conducted a case study of a bioinformatics software library called Biopython to investigate the promise of Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program...

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Main Authors: Erik H Trainer, Chalalai Chaihirunkarn, James D Herbsleb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2014-07-01
Series:Journal of Open Research Software
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Online Access:http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/27