Brian Skinn
Brian Skinn (@btskinn, @[email protected]) has always been a programmer (TI-82, represent!), but took a long arc through chemical engineering---B.S., Ph.D., and ten years in industrial electrochemical engineering R&D---before joining OpenTeams Incubator as a technology marketer in May 2022. Along the way, he learned a lot of VBA and a little MATLAB, Maple, and Java, before discovering Python in 2014 and never looking back. He maintains a couple of open source Python libraries, occasionally posts on his blog (https://bskinn.github.io), and reads SF/F & makes enthusiastically amateur music in his remaining spare time.
Sessions
Lightning Talks are short 5-10 minute sessions presented by community members on a variety of interesting topics.
Selecting the technologies to use is one of the most important considerations when working on a software project. When using a particular open source package, the success of a project may hinge on some significant details about the open source package being used, such as whether the package is well-governed and well-maintained so that bugs, issues, and feature requests could be addressed in a timely manner, the community around that package is responsive, or whether the package is well documented, among its many other functional qualities. Therefore, it is important to have data-driven metrics to assess whether a given package will be a safe and reliable choice to use in one’s project. The OpenTeams Score is a novel initiative focused on assessing open source software packages to help developers, scientists, open source communities, and companies make informed decisions about what technologies to use in their software projects.