Write all the things? The process of collaboratively writing papers #RSAA25

Abstract: Over the past few months, I have written two papers with a large amount of authors. The first was the notes from a conference workshop on OSS held at eResearchNZ, which I published on Zenodo. The second was a Ten Simple Rules article which I submitted to PLOS Computational Biology, and prepublished on arxiv.org. In this lightning talk, I’ll briefly go over how the process went, what I did to be inclusive, and how you can help others improve your papers by inviting them in, too. I’ll also cover some gotyas that hit me and made the process harder than expected.