<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">First Call for Participation:</div><div class="">3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">September 28-29, 2015, Boulder, CO</div><div class=""><a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe3/" class="">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe3/</a></div><div class="">(Co-located with 10th Gateway Community Environments (GCE15) Workshop)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of</div><div class="">software at all levels and it is now critical to address many new challenges related</div><div class="">to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software. In addition, it</div><div class="">is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a </div><div class="">new set of software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are </div><div class="">already acquiring some of these skills, and in particular a specialized class of </div><div class="">software developers is emerging in academic environments who are an integral and </div><div class="">embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides a forum for discussing </div><div class="">these challenges, including presenting both positions and experiences, as well as a </div><div class="">forum for the community to assemble and act.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The WSSSPE1 workshop (<a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe1" class="">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe1</a>) engaged the broad </div><div class="">scientific community to identify challenges and best practices in areas relevant to </div><div class="">sustainable scientific software. WSSSPE2 </div><div class="">(<a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2" class="">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2</a>) invited the community to propose and </div><div class="">discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software </div><div class="">development and usage in science and engineering.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WSSSPE3 will organize self-directed teams that will collaborate prior to and during the </div><div class="">workshop to create vision documents, proposals, papers, and action plans that will help </div><div class="">the scientific software community produce software that is more sustainable, including </div><div class="">developing sustainable career paths for community members. These teams are intended to </div><div class="">lead into working groups that will be active after the workshop, if appropriate, </div><div class="">working collaboratively to achieve their goals, and seeking funding to do so if needed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The main aim for this first call for participation is to collect additional ideas for </div><div class="">teams to work on at WSSSPE3 (via email; see below.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Initial ideas for these team activities, based on the breakout groups in WSSSPE2, are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Development and Community</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Writing a white paper/review paper about best practices in developing</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> sustainable software</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Documenting successful models for funding specialist expertise in </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>software collaborations</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Creating and curating catalogs for software tools that aid sustainability</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(perhaps categorized by domain, programming languages, architectures,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and/or functions, e.g., for code testing, documentation)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Documenting case studies for academia/industry interaction</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Training</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Writing a white paper on training for developing sustainable software,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and coordinating multiple ongoing training-oriented projects</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Developing curriculum for software sustainability, and ideas about where</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>such curriculum would be presented, such as a summer training institute</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Credit</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Hacking the credit and citation ecosystem (making it work, or work</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>better, for software)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Developing a taxonomy of contributorship/guidelines for including</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>software contributions in tenure review</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Documenting case studies of receiving credit for software contributions</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Developing a system of awards and recognitions to encourage</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sustainable software</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Publishing</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Developing a categorization of journals that publish software</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>papers (building on existing work), and case studies of</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>alternative publishing mechanisms that have been shown to improve</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>software discoverability/reuse e.g., popular blogs/websites</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Determining what journals that publish software paper should provide</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to their reviewers (e.g., guidelines, mechanisms, metadata</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>standards, etc.)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Reproducibility and testing</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Building a toolkit that could allow conference organizers to easily</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>add a reproducibility track</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Documenting best practices for code testing and code review</div><div class="">Additional community suggestions are welcomed and encouraged!! (via email; see below)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Workshop Format: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Opening keynote TBA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Lightning talks – submissions welcome (via EasyChair, see below)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Team sessions – initial list of possible sessions above; submissions</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of additional ideas welcome (via email, see below)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Team progress report-back to plenary group</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• At the end of the workshop, teams will “pitch” their ideas to the</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>audience, possibly including some funders (who would not committed to</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>funding anything, just providing feedback), including e.g., Moore,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sloan, Digital Science, NSF, NIH.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Call for Participation / Actions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Save the dates for WSSSPE3: 28-29 September, 2015, Boulder, CO</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Suggest additional team actions – Please propose your ideas by</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>email (with subject WSSSPE3) to <a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org" class="">d.katz@ieee.org</a> by 8 July, 2015</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Submit lightning talks – submit a 1-page PDF containing the talk title,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>author names, affiliations, and a short abstract via Easychair,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/wsssep3-submit" class="">http://bit.ly/wsssep3-submit</a>, by 3 August, 2015</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Join the WSSSPE mailing list to be sure to get further information</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on WSSSPE3 – via <a href="http://bit.ly/wssspe-list" class="">http://bit.ly/wssspe-list</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Travel Support:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some limited travel support is likely to be available; please check the</div><div class="">workshop web page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Deadline for suggestions for new team activities: 8 July 2015 </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(any time of day, no extensions)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Initial list of team activities to be posted on WSSSPE3 web page: 22 July 2015</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Lightning talk submissions: 3 August 2015 (any time of day, no extensions)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Workshop: 28-29 September 2015</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Post-workshop report writing (participation is open to all): 30 September 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Organizers:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Daniel S. Katz, <a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org" class="">d.katz@ieee.org</a>, University of Chicago & Argonne </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Laboratory, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Gabrielle Allen, <a href="mailto:gdallen@illinois.edu" class="">gdallen@illinois.edu</a>, University of Illinois </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Urbana-Champaign, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi, <a href="mailto:sctchoi@uchicago.edu" class="">sctchoi@uchicago.edu</a>, NORC at the University of </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Neil Chue Hong, <a href="mailto:N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk" class="">N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk</a>, Software Sustainability Institute,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> University of Edinburgh, UK</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Sandra Gesing, <a href="mailto:sandra.gesing@nd.edu" class="">sandra.gesing@nd.edu</a>, University of Notre Dame, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Lorraine J. Hwang, <a href="mailto:ljhwang@ucdavis.edu" class="">ljhwang@ucdavis.edu</a>, University of California, Davis, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Manish Parashar, <a href="mailto:parashar@rutgers.edu" class="">parashar@rutgers.edu</a>, Rutgers University, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Matthew Turk, <a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com" class="">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Colin C. Venters, <a href="mailto:colin.venters@googlemail.com" class="">colin.venters@googlemail.com</a>, University of Huddersfield, UK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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