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DevCSI Developer Challenge OR11 – The Judges!

Interviews with some of the Developer Challenge Judges We have the definitive list of judges for the DevCSI Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 11, they are: Balviar Notay (JISC and Chair of Judges) Wolfram Horstmann (Bielefeld University, Germany) Dorthea Salo … Continue reading

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Big John Rides Again

For one of the final Dev8D sessions, before the DevCSI awards and announcement of challenge winners, John Gallant is back on Skype sharing some more of his CSS expertise. Participants are still taking notes and asking questions – impressive mental … Continue reading

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Challenges of creating research support services

The JISC is to be highly commended for funding work at the delicate interface between pure research and service development in the area of data management. It is excellent to see the way that the JISC, the RIN, the DCC … Continue reading

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DevCSI Supporting 5 places at Collaborations Workshop

The DevCSI project have partnered with the Collaborations Workshop and are providing free registration and help with expenses for a number of key developers to attend the Collaborations Workshop. The workshop is being held on  Thursday 3 and Friday 4 … Continue reading

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Responsive innovation – change management in a recession

Paul Walk has very clearly and powerfully argued about the crucial role that local software developers play in enabling technical innovation in educational institutions and the need for them to embrace change management .  There is particular reference to the DevCSI project, … Continue reading

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Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers

An Ariadne article has just been published where Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project, please see: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/mahey-walk/ for more information.

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DevCSI Stakeholder Survey – Prize Draw – The Winner!

Many thanks to all who participated in the DevCSI Stakeholder Survey, we really appreciate the time spent to give us such useful data. We had 481 participants in total, 148 of whom chose to enter the prize draw for the … Continue reading

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ePub / eBook Hackday, 13-14 December, Bristol, UK

We have organised a free [*] 2-day event in Bristol over 13-14 December 2010 in conjunction with the JISC-funded Application Profiles Support Project, with a blog posting here. This hackday event will bring together software developers, project managers and users particularly (though not … Continue reading

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GNOME Usability hackfest

The GNOME Usability Hackfest took place at Canonical’s offices in London from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th February 2010, almost at the same time the DevCSI organised Dev8D 2010 was being held. The purpose of the event was to test … Continue reading

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Google Wave Hackday

Cameron Neylon organised a Google Wave Hackday at Nature Publishing’s London Offices which was sponsored by DevCSI. The theme for the day was to build a Google Wave gadget to facilitate Scientists using Google Wave. On the day there was … Continue reading

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