Telling the stories of the people powering scientific open source software
In this Jupyter Book - hosted on GitHub pages at https://
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Creating things together¶
This repository was created as a collaborative interview project for potential undergraduate interns at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS).
We lined up eight contributors to scientific open source software packages, and created “stub” pages for them in this book. We asked teams of 2-3 applicants to meet with one of the contributors and ask the following questions:
The applicants then worked as a team to open up a pull request to the people-scientific-oss GitHub repository with a write up of their conversation.
Our collaborative interview process was designed to give the undergraduates a feel for the type of research and software development we’re interested in.
Acknowlegements¶
This book is a Jupyter Book, powered by the MyST markdown document engine: Rowan Cockett et al. (2025)
If you use this tool, please consider citing the team’s overview publication Jupyter Book 2 and the MyST Document Stack, part of the 2025 SciPy Proceedings
Thank you to the Scientific Python community for their GitHub Action to add a GitHub status link to a CircleCI artifact, which allows us to review rendered content in pull requests.
License¶
All content is made available under the permissive 2-Clause BSD open source license.
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