Caption: Map showing all countries with at least one FORCE2021 participant in yellow.
In this final conference blog post from FORCE2021: Joining Forces to Advance the Future of Research Communications, I wrap up some details, answer some questions, and share some ways we hope you will stay engaged and connected! As you can see from the map below, the global reach of the conference was amazing.
Lots of folks are eager to see and share the videos of sessions they loved (or missed!). The videos are coming soon to the FORCE2021 YouTube playlist. Subscribe to the playlist to be notified when videos are posted. The plan is to do some light editing and to prioritize the keynotes and panels.
Many conference materials are already shared in the conference Zenodo community, and conference organizers and many participants will continue to be reachable on the FORCE11 Slack for questions and networking.
One aspect of the conference I’ve been looking forward to including in the blog is the Hackathons. Pre- and post-conference, about 30 people gathered to create solutions around the topic of software citation. Eight working groups will continue around related topics. Please reach out to the respective coordinators if you want to learn more, and/or join the next Force11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group call on January 11, 2022.
| Working Group | Coordinator |
| Crosswalk of metadata standards for software | Morane Gruenpeter |
| Crosswalk of resource metadata | Tom Morrell |
| Automated metadata conversion to/from CFF | Martin Fenner |
| Updating GitHub documentation for adding metadata to GitHub repositories | Arfon Smith |
| Documenting how to adopt software citation best practices | Alice Allen |
| CFFinit software for creating CFF files via a form | Abel Siquera |
| Initial evaluation of adding software citation support to GitLab repositories | Stephan Druskat |
| GitHub action to help authors keep their CFF files up-to-date | Ana Trisovic |
| Tracking the impact of metadata | Daniel Garijo |
While I am wistfully closing out my time as conference blogger, FORCE11 will be launching a new blog platform, Upstream, in January, 2022. We hope to see you there to continue work and conversations around the future of research communications!
Jennifer Miller for the FORCE2021 Organizing Committee
Wrap-up and Takeaways from FORCE2021 by Jennifer Miller for FORCE2021 Organizing Committee is licensed under CC BY 4.0
