Blog posts

• CodeRefinery Open House - advanced git / git masterclass (2025-01-31)
  Report from our open house session on advanced git / git masterclass on 14.01.25
• CodeRefinery - Celebrating eight years (2024-09-19)
  Continuing eight years of collaboratively teaching good enough research software engineering practices
• CodeRefinery train the trainer workshop (2024-09-09)
  Report and insights gathered during our train the trainer workshop in August/September 2024
• Bring your own classroom to a CodeRefinery workshop (2024-08-19)
  Join a CodeRefinery workshop with your own classroom and help us scale
• Results from our 2024 post workshop survey (2024-08-10)
  In this blog post we summarize the feedback and suggestions collected from participants of workshops from 2022 and 2023.
• Citation Information for Open Source Lessons (2024-07-30)
  Discussing the current state and potential future applications of the Citation File Format for lessons
• Summary of business and financing models -planning session Tromsø 2024 (2024-06-17)
  Discussing possible business and financing models for CodeRefinery
• Why should your organization support CodeRefinery and how? (2024-06-07)
  Organizations can support the CodeRefinery project in several ways to make it sustainable and can have a mutually advantageous collaboration.
• In-person meeting summary: Community (2024-04-20)
  What is the CodeRefinery community to you?
• In-person meeting summary: Onboarding (2024-04-20)
  Onboarding new people to the community
• Drafting a governance structure for 2025 and beyond (2024-04-19)
  We are working on defining a mission, vision, guiding principles, and a decision body for CodeRefinery in 2025 and beyond. This is an early draft.
• We have completely changed our Git lessons. Hopefully to the better. (2024-04-19)
  We don't start on the command line anymore. Instead, we start in the web interface of a Git hosting service and offer several tracks to follow the lesson.
• The Modular Code Developement Lesson (2024-04-19)
• CodeRefinery Social Media Strategy (2024-04-19)
• Asynchronous vs. Live Online Teaching: Understanding the Pros and Cons (2024-04-18)
• In-person meeting: install instructions update (2024-04-04)
  We looked at the installation instructions for CodeRefinery workshops and tried to figure out how to improve them
• In-person meeting summary: video production (2024-04-04)
  The video production session provided a hands-on experience in what goes on behind the scenes. It wasn't that hard.
• Help us do the next CodeRefinery workshop (2024 H2) (2024-03-25)
  Our workshop in 2024 March went well. But we need help if we want to do this again.
• Anyone want a streaming training workshop? (2024-03-17)
  CodeRefinery's streaming setup is getting fairly professional. Anyone want to learn how to reproduce it?
• Recap of the first week of the spring 2024 workshop (2024-03-15)
  Looking back at week one of the CodeRefinery workshop and the big rework of the version control lessons
• Help us make usable IDE/git install instructions (2024-02-29)
  We want our workshops to be more usable than before, and that means aligning with best practices.
• Workshop format (2024-02-27)
  Discussions on Workshop format and how it affects lesson development
• Summary from a brainstorming meeting about the project future (2024-01-24)
  Screenshots and summary from our concept board.
• Lessons learned from the September 2023 online workshop (2023-12-05)
• What we plan to improve for the September 2023 workshop (2023-06-25)
  We encourage the community to give us feedback on these ideas.
• Lessons learned from the March 2023 online workshop (2023-04-12)
• CodeRefinery workshop, 21-23 and 28-30 March 2023 (2023-02-14)
  Our March workshop is soon, and you can join alone, as a team, or as a volunteer.
• Learner teams in courses (2022-11-28)
  Teams can provide high-quality interaction even in large courses.
• Livestreaming courses (2022-11-14)
  Livestream courses have changed how we teach by allowing unprecedented scaling possibilities.
• Lessons learned from the Sep 2022 online workshop (2022-11-08)
• CodeRefinery Mastodon account (2022-11-08)
  CodeRefinery has started a Mastodon social media account.
• Video publishing supports more learning styles (2022-11-08)
  Publishing course videos supports more learning styles and doesn't have to affect privacy.
• Reverse hybrid teaching (2022-11-07)
  'Reverse hybrid' is instructors remote, students local - possibly spread among different locations in small groups.
• Co-teaching and scaling up (2022-10-31)
  Co-teaching replaces (forced?) learner interaction with natural interaction between co-instructors.
• Parallel chat ("HackMD") and scaling teaching (2022-10-24)
  Parallel chat via a text document enables interactively at scale when online teaching.
• Python for Scientific Computing open for registration and collaborators (2022-10-21)
• CodeRefinery teaching strategies and the future of teaching (2022-10-17)
• Outcomes from online hackathon about measuring the impact of CodeRefinery workshops (2022-05-18)
• Our plans to improve our workshop registration process (2022-05-04)
• Lessons learned from the May 2021 online workshop (2021-11-25)
• Towards citable lessons (2021-11-21)
• Lessons learned from phase 2 of the project (2021-11-20)
• Bi-weekly Community Calls started (2021-09-01)
• Community discussion in Nordic and Baltic countries (2020-11-13)
• git-pr: painless small pull requests (2020-09-29)
• Report from the Mega-Coderefinery workshop (2020-07-31)
• CodeRefinery tools in action: NordicHPC (2020-04-27)
• Announcing the first Nordic-RSE conference (2020-04-24)
• CodeRefinery workshops moving online (2020-04-24)
• Rebase vs merge (2020-04-24)
• Research Software Hour (2020-04-24)
• Lessons learned from running our first online workshop (2020-04-14)