Many users are not familiar with the command line interfaces used by most *nix based systems. These systems are the backbone of scientific programming and storage systems. Windows user may want to have a look at this article in order to work with the storage resources within Sigma2 NIRD for a graphical user interface.

A challenge to scientists writing software to do their science was published in Nature recently. Please check out the Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7. The paper has many good reflections that are useful for scientists chosing how to work with software.

WMO is arranging the WMO Data Conference November 16-19th. This will be a virtual conference due to the COVID-19 situation. Further information is available at https://public.wmo.int/en/events/WMO-Data-Conference.

Through the CODATA mailing list we got this message:

In partnership with the Hogeschool Leiden, the GO FAIR Foundation has
developed a FAIR Data Stewardship Course. An online version will be
running in October-November 2020.