A first R2.0 message about SHARE (was "Fujaba Days: Practical Info")

I was about to send an e-mail to the registered attendees for the upcoming Fujaba Days 2009 workshop when Jean-Marie reminded me that I should make the Research 2.0 community aware of our ongoing efforts on SHARE.

In a nutshell, SHARE is a platform that supports workshop organizers, authors and attendees to share computational research artifacts (code, executables, libraries, documentation, screencasts, ...) in one self-contained environment. I will post a paper on the topic soon.

In the meanwhile, here's a copy/paste of the info that I will send to the Fujaba Days attendees (I omit some details that are irrelevant here):

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Concerning your presentation-slot, recall that 30 minutes are available for papers whereas 20 minutes are available for tool demonstrations. From the organization of the GraBaTs workshops, I conclude that unless you plan properly, people will barely look at your actual software contribution during or after the workshop. Moreover, in many cases the results from a particular plugin, algorithm or tool can hardly be reproduced some years after the workshop (think for example of the Eclipse version hell... or check http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/cs/2009/01/mcs2009010005.pdf for an example from another community) Even in the context of the (small) Fujaba community, I observe that it takes people to much installation/configuration effort to quickly play with each-other's software.

To counter this, we provide a means to install all software and data related to your paper remotely in a virtual machine (XP or Ubuntu based). The supportive platform (SHARE) then enables others to reproduce your results in an optimally configured environment, without any installation/configuration hassle. Additionally, if someone wants to extend your contribution (or report a bug), he/she can clone your image (if you grant access) and make the extensions back available to you. Please go here to play around with the basic XP image and request a clone if you want "to SHARE" your contribution there. It would enable others to experiment with your software before/during/after the Fujaba Days, which may make your presentation more effective...

That said, you can already download the Fujaba Days 2009 proceedings from http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/events/fujabadays2009/FDAYS09_proceedings.pdf
Please notify me as soon as possible when you find an obvious error: the proceedings will be printed in a couple of days.

Sincerely,
Pieter Van Gorp, Assistant Professor (UD)
    Information Systems Group, School of Industrial Engineering
    Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands
    Phone: +31 40 247 2062, Skype: pvgorp, Fax: +31 40 243 2612
    http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/

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Demo of share at CASCON?

Thanks pieter for these information about share. This is definively and totally about RESEARCH 2.0 and SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2.0. On thursday (the workshop itself) we are going to start with a presentation of this web site and summary of the different blog posts and discussions. Do you think it would make sense to make a very short demo of the SHARE system? If you send you me some two or three slides I can do this on behalf of you. This offer is also available for all other people that will post information on this web site and cannot attend the workshop in flesh. Time to advertise and promote your work. That's fair. We should do this more often as it is not reasonable to go to every conferences and emit so much carbon. Green research.

Jean-Marie Favre , 03 November 2009

Demo of SHARE @CASCON: several options

Hi Jean-Marie,
good point about the carbon emission.

Concerning the SHARE demo, the following options come to my mind:

- option 1: you quickly go through http://www.slideboom.com/prese...s-eye-view online,
- option 2: I send you the Powerpoint source of that (and some similar, perhaps more fancy) slideset,
- option 3: I record a screencast with a walkthrough that also shows the administrative features,
- option 4: You give a live demo yourself.

Given the timeframe, option 4 may be too ambitious but please let me know what you like most.

Best regards,
Pieter

Pieter Van Gorp , 03 November 2009