[Bessig] Fwd: CFP: 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science (WSSSPE3): Keynote, Lightning Talks, Registration & Hotel Information, Travel Awards still available

[Erin Robinson]

Hi All -

This is the final call for participation for the 3rd Workshop on
Sustainable Software for Science Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3). I'm
sending to this list because it is in Boulder at Center Green.

Happy to answer questions. All details below.

Best,
Erin

September 28-29, 2015, Boulder, CO
http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe3/
(Co-located with 10th Gateway Community Environments (GCE15) Workshop)

Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and
accessibility of software at all levels and it is now critical to address
many new challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance
of reusable software. In addition, it is essential that scientists,
researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a new set of
software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are
already acquiring some of these skills, and in particular a specialized
class of software developers is emerging in academic environments who are
an integral and embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides
a forum for discussing these challenges, including presenting both
positions and experiences, as well as a forum for the community to assemble
and act.

Workshop Format:

Opening keynote: Matthew Turk, University of Illinois
Lightning talks - see agenda for list
Team sessions – list of possible sessions below
Team progress report-back to plenary group
During the workshop, teams will “pitch” their ideas to the audience,
possibly including some funders (who would not committed to funding
anything, just providing feedback), including e.g., NSF, NIH, EPSRC, Sloan.

Call for Participation / Actions:

Save the dates for WSSSPE3: 28-29 September, 2015, Boulder, CO
Register for WSSSPE3 and plan your travel:
http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe3/registration-hotel/
Get started on discussing and planning for team sessions by commenting on
them at https://github.com/danielskatz/WSSSPE/issues (note: they are listed
as GitHub issues, so you will need to signup for a GitHub account if you
don’t have one)
Join the WSSSPE mailing list to be sure to get further information on
WSSSPE3 – via http://bit.ly/wssspe-list

Travel Support:

Some limited travel support is still available; please see the workshop web
page.

Important Dates:

Lightning talk submissions: 7 August 2015 (any time of day, no further
extensions)
Lighting talk decisions: 17 August 2015
Travel support requests: 26 August 2015 (still open)
Decisions on travel support announced: about 31 August 2015
Workshop: 28-29 September 2015
Post-workshop report writing (participation is open to all): 30 September
2015

Context:

The WSSSPE1 workshop (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe1)
engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best
practices in areas relevant to sustainable scientific software.  WSSSPE2  (
http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2) invited the community to
propose and discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future
practice of software development and usage in science and engineering.

WSSSPE3 will organize self-directed teams that will collaborate prior to
and during the workshop to create vision documents, proposals, papers, and
action plans that will help the scientific software community produce
software that is more sustainable, including developing sustainable career
paths for community members. These teams are intended to lead into working
groups that will be active after the workshop, if appropriate, working
collaboratively to achieve their goals, and seeking funding to do so if
needed.

Potential WSSSPE3 team activities, based on the breakout groups in WSSSPE2
and additional community suggestions, are:

Development and Community
 -Writing a white paper/review paper about best practices in developing
sustainable software
 -Documenting successful models for funding specialist expertise in
software collaborations
 -Creating and curating catalogs for software tools that aid sustainability
(perhaps categorized by domain, programming languages, architectures,
and/or functions, e.g., for code testing, documentation)
 -Documenting case studies for academia/industry interaction
 -Determining effective strategies for refactoring/improving legacy
scientific software
 -Determining principles for engineering design for sustainable software
 -Create a set of guidance giving examples of specific metrics for the
success of scientific software in use, why they were chosen, what they are
useful to measure, and any challenges/pitfalls; then publish this as a
white paper
Training
 -Writing a white paper on training for developing sustainable software,
and coordinating multiple ongoing training-oriented projects
 -Developing curriculum for software sustainability, and ideas about where
such curriculum would be presented, such as a summer training institute
Credit
 -Hacking the credit and citation ecosystem (making it work, or work
better, for software)
 -Developing a taxonomy of contributorship/guidelines for including
software contributions in tenure review
 -Documenting case studies of receiving credit for software contributions
 -Developing a system of awards and recognitions to encourage sustainable
software
Publishing
 -Developing a categorization of journals that publish software papers
(building on existing work), and case studies of alternative publishing
mechanisms that have been shown to improve software discoverability/reuse
e.g., popular blogs/websites
 -Determining what journals that publish software paper should provide to
their reviewers (e.g., guidelines, mechanisms, metadata standards, etc.)
Reproducibility and testing
 -Building a toolkit that could allow conference organizers to easily add a
reproducibility track
 -Documenting best practices for code testing and code review
Documentation
 -Develop landing pages on the WSSSPE website (or elsewhere) that enable
the community to easily find up-to-date information on a WSSSPE topic
(e.g., software credit, scientific software metrics, testing scientific
software)


Organizers:

Daniel S. Katz, d.katz at ieee.org, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA
Gabrielle Allen, gdallen at illinois.edu, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA
Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi, sctchoi at uchicago.edu,  NORC at the University of
Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Neil Chue Hong, N.ChueHong at software.ac.uk, Software Sustainability
Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sandra Gesing, sandra.gesing at nd.edu, University of Notre Dame, USA
Lorraine J. Hwang, ljhwang at ucdavis.edu, University of California, Davis, USA
Manish Parashar, parashar at rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, USA
Erin Robinson, erinrobinson at esipfed.org, Foundation for Earth Science, USA
(local organizer)
Matthew Turk, matthewturk at gmail.com, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA
Colin C. Venters, colin.venters at googlemail.com, University of Huddersfield,
UK
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