Software and the Social: A Discussion of 'Keeping Software Present'

Discussion of Keeping Software Present by Marisa Leavitt Cohn, published in digitalSTS. (Discussion will be held on Zoom)

The digitalSTS book is available from Princeton Press, and bookstores, and also available free to download for personal and educational use. In particular, the essay is here: https://digitalsts.net/essays/keeping-software-present/

This conversation will focus on a study of the dynamics of creating and maintaining software in a large organization. The author, Marisa Leavitt Cohn, considers the human, institutional, and technical dynamics at play as software projects age and priorities change within NASA. Her work bears on the tensions which anyone who writes code or manages developers for any length of time experience.

On: November 14, 2022, 12:30PM - 1:30PM Eastern Time (US/Canada). The Zoom room will remain open until 2PM for informal discussion.

The discussion will be hosted by **Nick Travaglini **(@n_travaglini on twitter)