What a Few Hundred Francs Can Do for a Five-Year-Old Django Site: The WiNRepo Case Study
About forty academic women — from Stanford, Oxford, Max Planck, Karolinska, Amsterdam UMC, Geneva — fill out a sign-up form on a professional repository in their field, and never hear back. In spring 2026, I was engaged on a small contract for the Women in Neuroscience Repository. The website was functional, but the team had flagged some minor issues, mostly on the server side. Some things as updating the dependencies or simplifying the production pipeline. ...