[WSSSPE] CFP: WSSSPE 5.2 in conjunction with eScience in October in New Zealand

[Sandra Gesing]

*5th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
(WSSSPE5.2) Call for Submissions*

(http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe5/)

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Dates: 1 day workshop during IEEE eScience <http://escience2017.org.nz/>, 24-27
October, Auckland, New Zealand



WSSSPE <http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/> is an international
community-driven organization that promotes sustainable research software
by addressing challenges related to the full lifecycle of research software
through shared learning and community action. WSSSPE5.2 is the seventh
workshop convened since 2015 in an international series that provides
opportunities for the community to come together to share and advance
practices.

WSSSPE5.2 aims to facilitate the creation of a regional community focussed
on sustainable research software, by sharing and building best practice
both locally and internationally. The workshop will discuss topics relevant
to building a sustainable future for open-use research software and the
activities that are needed to get there. This includes discussion of
practices and experiences in sustainable scientific software, with the goal
of improving the quality of today’s research software and the experiences
of its developers by sharing practices and experiences.



*Submission of abstracts: 30 June, 2017*



*Submission types and formats:*

   - Lightning talks: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be
   conveyed in a 5 to 7 minute talk.
   - Full paper: a long paper, up to 10 pages, that can be presented in a
   15 minute talk.



Both types of talks may be based on novel or previously published work,
present a position on what we can do to improve sustainable scientific
software in the short term, or discuss experiences in sustainable
scientific software, specifically discussing current practices and
experiences and how they have been used to improve the quality of today’s
research software and/or the experiences of its developers.



*Topics of interest* include but are not limited to:

   - Development and Community
      - Best practices for developing sustainable software
      - Case studies of building regional WSSSPE communities
      - Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations
      - Software tools that aid sustainability
      - Academia/industry interaction
      - Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software
      - Engineering design for sustainable software
      - Metrics for the success of scientific software
      - Adaptation of mainstream software practices for scientific software
   - Professionalization
      - Career paths
      - Research Software Engineering as a brand
      - Initiatives for professionalization of Research Software Engineering
      - Increase incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better
      software
   - Training
      - Training for developing sustainable software
      - Curriculum for software sustainability
   - Credit
      - Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for
      software
      - Future credit and citation ecosystem
      - Software contributions as a part of tenure review
      - Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions
      - Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software
   - Software publishing
      - Journals and alternative venues for publishing software
      - Review processes for published software
      - Software discoverability/reuse
   - Software reproducibility
      - – requirements in conferences and journals
      - – best practices
   - Proposal and case studies



*Submission process:*

Authors are invited to submit using the IEEE 8.5 × 11 manuscript
guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10 point font on 8.5 ×
11 inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/
conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Submissions should also include a statement of their license, preferably CC
BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.  Submissions should
be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe52.

The proceedings of WSSSPE5.2 will be included in the eScience 2017
proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and
made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. For each paper
selected for publication, at least one of the authors must hold a
registration for the workshop, and must present the paper in person.

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Sandra Gesing
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing
University of Notre Dame
http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing
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