SSI Fellows Community Call: June 2020
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Date: 2020-06-24

The June 2020 SSI Fellows Community Call.

The goals of these Community Calls are to:
- Facilitate community building and encourage collaboration within the SSI Fellows community.
- Check in with the Fellows and community care - What are the Fellows up to? How can we support them?
- Provide a welcoming and inclusive space for Fellows to share and explore topics of interest and network with others.

This month, we:
- Heard updates from some of our Fellows: what they are working on, any projects seeking support/collaboration, demos of projects, fellowship plans, activities, events, etc.
- Explored moving events online: using the SSI Community Zoom meeting room, what Fellowship funds can be spent on, and advice from other Fellows on what works well and what doesn't. 


June speakers:

05:00 Stephen Eglen (2013 Fellow)
- Slides: http://bit.ly/eglen-ssi 
- CODECHECK: https://codecheck.org.uk/ 
- SSI news item: Institute Fellow Stephen Eglen’s Codecheck initiative confirms reproducibility of COVID-19 model results

14:09 Yo Yehudi (2018 Fellow)
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B5VZIpuaCApeFioX-gD7_stuxVScnG3YpXS1wQX_580/edit#slide=id.g757d71038f_0_6
- Open Life Science: https://openlifesci.org/
- Applications for Open Life Science Round 2 close on the 30th June: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ols2

21:00 Pablo Bernabeu (2020 Fellow)
- Call for co-leads or helpers for workshops on ‘Open data and reproducibility: R Markdown, dashboards and Binder’: Linguistics conference, 26 July (https://www.ukclc2020.com/pre-conference) and CarpentryCon, August (https://github.com/carpentrycon/carpentryconhome-proposals/issues/18)
- Call for contributors to extend the application or create an R package based on a new web application for experimental sciences: https://pablo-bernabeu.shinyapps.io/data-simulation-app/


More information:
- SSI website: https://www.software.ac.uk/
- SSI Fellows' profiles: https://www.software.ac.uk/about/fellows
- SSI Fellowship Programme: https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/fellowship-programme


The Software Sustainability Institute has been supported by EPSRC through grant EP/H043160/1 and EPSRC, BBSRC and ESRC Grant EP/N006410/1 and EPSRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, STFC and MRC grant EP/S021779/1.