Software Sustainability: Stories and Strategies

The Software Sustainability Institute will be running a workshop this September at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting.

Organiser: Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh.

Email: N.ChueHong@epcc.ed.ac.uk, tel: 0131 650 5957.

A recent EPSRC consultation with the e-Science community highlighted the management, curation and development of robust software as being a key area to support to enable high quality research.

Software sustainability in the research community must balance many opposing concerns: the effort spent on maintenance rather than research, conflicting requirements over increasing users, and the ability to enable reproducible and reusable research.

The workshop will bring together those with an interest in ensuring the longer-term development and use of software for research. This will include researchers, developers, research computing specialists, infrastructure providers, facilitators and funders.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for the sharing and dissemination of experiences. The ultimate goal is to identify new models of best practice that are emerging for the support of longer-term development and open-source software.

The workshop is seeking examples and case studies in the areas of:

software development
requirements analysis and management
community development
publicity, training and education
use of standards and integration to improve use
funding models
licensing and associated opportunities and threats
testing and validation
managing change

See the Software Sustainability Institute page about this workshop for more information.

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