Archive of Notes and Events

Collaborations Workshop 2012 21 Mar 2012

The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. This year it will be held on 21–22 March at Queen’s College, Oxford.

Some statistics from our project hosting site 17 Feb 2012

We've collected some data that will give a general idea of the usage of our code site.

Open source software licences: Other options 18 Jan 2012

Notes about public domain, academic use only, and other licence options.

Open source software licences: LGPL 18 Jan 2012

An explanation of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, with advantages, disadvantages, and how to apply it to your code.

Open source software licences: GPL 18 Jan 2012

An explanation of the GNU General Public Licence, with advantages, disadvantages, and how to apply it to your code.

Open source software licences: BSD-style 18 Jan 2012

An explanation of "BSD-style" software licences, with advantages, disadvantages, and how to apply them to your code.

Open source software licences explained 18 Jan 2012

If you plan to publish some software code, you need to include a licence so that other people will know what they can do with it. This article explains how to do it.

SoundSoftware paper accepted for ICASSP 2012 12 Jan 2012

We've had a paper accepted for this leading IEEE international signal processing conference. If you're attending the event in Kyoto in March, we hope to see you there!

Get started with your software and our project site 16 Dec 2011

The SoundSoftware project provides a software project hosting site for use by UK audio and music researchers. Here's a simple 5-step guide to getting your software on the site and starting to manage it in a more sustainable way.

Version control: What system should I use? 9 Dec 2011

A version control system remembers the history of changes to your files, so you can review what you have changed and when; and it helps you to share your changes and work with colleagues more easily. Here we talk about which version control system or service to use.