• DH RSE Survey Discussion - Part 1

    by Julia Damerow, Malte Vogl, Robert Casties · calendarDec 3, 2020

    The survey results can be found here. A second blog post that takes a closer look at the demographic questions of the survey will follow. A total of 66 people responded to the survey. Self-classification About half of all respondents classified themselves as “Service RSE,” which we defined as someone who is working …


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  • Sharing Users between Django projects

    by Malte Vogl · calendarNov 26, 2020  · 2Simple2Mention
    Sharing Users between Django projects

    You should never share Django user databases between projects! But sometimes….


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  • DH RSE Survey Results

    calendarOct 7, 2020

    The survey was comprised of 23 questions. 66 people responded to the survey. If you have not yet responded but would like to, the survey will remain open and is available here: https://forms.gle/qya3qE9mk24HvUXf8. We will post updates to the current results after we have received a significant number of additional …


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  • Zope 2.10 in Docker, or Applied Software Archaeology

    by Robert Casties · calendarAug 17, 2020  · ADayInTheLifeOf
    Zope 2.10 in Docker, or Applied Software Archaeology

    I wanted to migrate the old website on the server to a Docker image for Zope so I could use it in a docker-compose setup together with a standard PostgreSQL container. How hard could that be?


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  • Simply updating the Django version …

    by Malte Vogl · calendarAug 14, 2020  · ADayInTheLifeOf
    Simply updating the Django version ...

    Doing the sensible thing, as a first step I updated to the latest Django version, which was 3.1 at that time. Trying the debugging server of Django just gave me lots of errors. After a short search I realized, that of course also Django CMS needs to be updated, which was done in a breeze. Retrying the server, lots of …


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  • Just sending email notifications

    by Julia Damerow · calendarAug 14, 2020  · ADayInTheLifeOf
    Just sending email notifications

    I love my job. It is very interesting and challenging, I get to learn new things all the time, and some semesters I teach, which I enjoy a lot. Some days, however, are like 2020, you just want them to end.


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  • Next webinar will be announced soon

    by Julia Damerow · calendarMar 3, 2020

    The next will be announced soon. Until then, check out the summary of the last webinar!


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  • Deployment, Release, and Packaging Workflows

    calendarFeb 27, 2020 calendarMeetup date: Feb 27, 2020 on 9:00 AM  · meetup

    Webinar Summary On February 27, 2020, a total of 11 DHTech members met for a webinar on the topic of deployment, release, and packaging workflows. Several people described the workflows and tools they employ at their organizations followed by a lively (and interesting) discussion of questions and answers. CESSDA ERIC …


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  • DHTech February Webinar: Deployment, Release, and Packaging Workflows

    by Julia Damerow · calendarFeb 7, 2020  · announcement

    On Thu, Feb. 27, 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be talking about how different projects manage their deployment, release, and packaging workflows. Do you use a CI/CD server? Do you release your code through pip? Do you have shell scripts to manage your workflows? Maybe you use Ansible or Docker? Or how else do you manage …


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  • DHTech January Webinar: How to build local DH RSE communities?

    by Julia Damerow · calendarJan 10, 2020  · announcement

    Are you the lone DH RSE wolf in your group? Do you think there must be others like you at your institution and would like to connect? Or are you working in a group of DH RSEs or have you successfully mastered creating a local DH RSE community? On Thu, Jan. 23, 2020 at 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be discussing how to build …


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