Abstract
In 2014, the khmer software project participated in a two-day global sprint coordinated by the Mozilla Science Lab. We offered a mentored experience in contributing to a scientific software project for anyone who was interested. We provided entry-level tasks and worked with contributors as they worked through our development process. The experience was successful on both a social and a technical level, bringing in 13 contributions from 9 new contributors and validating our development process. In this experience paper we describe the sprint preparation and process, relate anecdotal experiences, and draw conclusions about what other projects could do to enable a similar outcome. The khmer software is developed openly at http://github.com/dib-lab/khmer/.
Highlights
In July 2014, Mozilla Science Lab (MSL) ran a two-day global “sprint” for a wide variety of software projects
Most of the khmer developers were in the room together and when a problem needed to be discussed it was easy to hold an impromptu meeting
This is different from our usual lab development process which is largely asynchronous
Summary
In July 2014, Mozilla Science Lab (MSL) ran a two-day global “sprint” for a wide variety of software projects. One way to learn these practices is to participate in an open source project, which often provide a path for new contributors to get involved. Open source scientific software projects can go further by providing scientists the opportunity to work on a science-focused project.
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