Fellow's Update: Daniele Procida - SSI Fellows Community Call January 2023
Channel: SoftwareSaved
Date: 26/01/2023

Fellow's Update from 2022 Fellow Daniele Procida during the January 2023 SSI Fellows Community Call.

Useful links:
- About Daniele: https://www.software.ac.uk/about/fellows/daniele-procida
- Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Dqx5qlgyURk80cInvXDqwGg9mTju0CmyM1sAQz9vSsI/edit?usp=sharing
- Diátaxis documentation framework: https://diataxis.fr
- Previous documentation workshop series for researchers: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vQEZf-uZkDc1dOAWEUMWN1TaWBIQdED1bCcYGrOL4RP1HTw_juX7DgcG63LGRx3aSkTAtBmKtGRCc_r/pub
- Forthcoming workshop to introduce documentation practices and principles at PyCon Namibia 2023 (https://na.pycon.org/). PyCon Namibia has a high proportion of attendees from research and data science rather than software engineering backgrounds. In previous years they have included individuals working in government departments or agencies, or other public bodies, with functions related to the development or implementation of government policy. These programmers are often new to programming, and exploring software as an alternative to working with spreadsheets. Typically, they have very naive approaches to software - they are often unfamiliar with good management practices for code and data, and have only very vague ideas of why or how documentation might be relevant to their work.
- Proposed documentation workshop for FAIRmat (https://www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/fairmat/about-fairmat/consortium-fairmat) ("building a FAIR data infrastructure for condensed-matter physics and the chemical physics of solids") at Humboldt University, Berlin (https://www.hu-berlin.de/en)
- Seeking opportunities for in-person 2023 workshops in the UK at academic institutions