<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:calibri">5th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.2) Call for Submissions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">(<a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe5/" target="_blank">http://wssspe.<wbr>researchcomputing.org.uk/<wbr>wssspe5/</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Location: Auckland, New Zealand</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Dates: 1 day workshop during
<a href="http://escience2017.org.nz/" target="_blank">IEEE eScience</a>, <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">24-27 October</span></span>, Auckland, New Zealand</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri"><a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/" target="_blank">WSSSPE</a>
 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:calibri">Submission of abstracts: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">30 June, 2017</span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:calibri">Submission types and formats:</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Lightning talks: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 5 to 7 minute talk.
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Full paper: a long paper, up to 10 pages, that can be presented in a 15 minute talk.</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:calibri">Topics of interest</span></b><span style="font-family:calibri"> include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Development and Community
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Best practices for developing sustainable software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Case studies of building regional WSSSPE communities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Software tools that aid sustainability</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Academia/industry interaction</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Engineering design for sustainable software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Metrics for the success of scientific software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Adaptation of mainstream software practices for scientific software</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Professionalization
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Career paths</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Research Software Engineering as a brand</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Initiatives for professionalization of Research Software Engineering</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Increase incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better software</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Training
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Training for developing sustainable software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Curriculum for software sustainability</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Credit
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Future credit and citation ecosystem</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Software contributions as a part of tenure review</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Software publishing
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Journals and alternative venues for publishing software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Review processes for published software</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Software discoverability/reuse</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Software reproducibility
</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">– requirements in conferences and journals</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">– best practices</span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Proposal and case studies</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:calibri">Submission process:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:calibri"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">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<a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">
 http://www.ieee.org/<wbr>conferences_events/<wbr>conferences/publishing/<wbr>templates.html</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">Submissions should also include a statement of their license, preferably
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY 4.0</a>.  Submissions should be made via
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe52" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=wssspe52</a>.   </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri">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.</span></p> 
<span style="font-family:calibri"><br></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Sandra Gesing<br></div>Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br></div>Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing<br></div>University of Notre Dame<br><a href="http://www3.nd.edu/%7Esgesing" target="_blank">http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing</a><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div>
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