From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?

Posted Oct 26, 2017 0:57 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source? by Tara_Li
Parent article: From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?

One way programmers can become more available is when researchers finally accept the necessity of hiring them. The researchers I know who have taken that step seem to have benefited tremendously from having people who really know their stuff doing the programming. If your research is computer-intensive enough that you're worried about the need to share your programs, you really ought to have a serious programmer involved in writing them. Even if the group doesn't do enough to justify having one full-time on staff, it might make sense to have some kind of research programming group that's available as a centralized core service.

From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?

Posted Nov 2, 2017 6:30 UTC (Thu) by einar (guest, #98134) [Link]

> One way programmers can become more available is when researchers finally accept the necessity of hiring them.

But at least in my country, academia does *not* pay enough for a programmer to be hired. I get funny stares when I say that if we need someone to do pure programming, we need to pay market rates.