F. Bockting
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Engagement

Beyond the development of open-source software, I contribute to teaching and lesson development, mentor students in open-source programmes, stay active in research software engineering, and work myself into new areas to improve my skill set.

Teaching & mentoring
Carpentries lesson maintainer
Carpentries

HPC Workflow Management with Snakemake: Carpentries Incubator lesson on building reproducible HPC pipelines with Snakemake; covering rules, cluster execution, and workflow patterns on shared compute systems.

Lesson
Tutorial at StanCon 2026
Co-instructor Stan

StanCon 2026 tutorial on contributing to Stan's C++ and OCaml core, R interfaces, and development workflow; using good-first issues to guide participants toward their first merge.

StanCon 2026 · Uppsala · 17–21 August 2026

Tutorial Conference
Google Summer of Code 2026
Mentor Stan

Global programme that pairs contributors with open-source organizations for a paid, mentored summer of software development on real project codebases.

2026

Project
Community contributions
HiRSE Summer of AI for RSE
HiRSE Seminar

Created a short video on AI-generated pull requests in open source as part of the HIRSE Summer of AI for RSE.

Video
Nordic RSE survey analysis
Nordic RSE

Developed an analysis tool for reproducible country-specific RSE survey analyses. Support in analysing and writing a blog post about survey results with focus on Nordic RSE.

Newsletter Tool
Contributing to Stan
Stan

Material to help new contributors navigate their first steps in the Stan ecosystem and find a practical way to start contributing.

Material
Professional development
Developing Secure Open-Source Software
OpenSSF

Course on secure requirements, design, implementation, verification, and supply-chain practices—helping developers build software hardened against common attacks.

Online · In progress

Course

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