[Esip-sciencesoftware] potential activity for this cluster re: Winter 2016 and AIST Evaluations

[Robert R Downs]

Good afternoon, Soren and all,

I cannot speak for the Science Software Cluster leadership, but agree 
that the evaluation and maturity of software are related to many of the 
issues that have been discussed by the science software cluster.

I have been away from day-to-day coding for some time, but am interested 
in these evaluation issues primarily from managerial, infrastructure 
sustainability, and data stewardship perspectives. The 2016 Winter ESIP 
Meeting session on the evaluation of the NASA AIST projects was most 
interesting. I will try to join the P&S telecon next week, if possible.

Thanks,

Bob

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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On 1/15/2016 12:39 PM, soren scott via Esip-sciencesoftware wrote:
> Morning,
>
> This cluster has been pretty quiet of late, but we have, through some 
> other ESIP activities, a thought about a potential activity that's of 
> interest to this group. There's some current work through Products & 
> Services developing an evaluation process for NASA AIST projects, 
> specifically related to software evaluation and maturity. That 
> activity is expanding towards a more generic evaluation process for 
> ESIP Testbed projects and a few other interested groups and we're 
> talking about what science software maturity looks like and how to 
> qualify and quantify the progression from prototype to operational for 
> those projects.
>
> Developing those metrics and processes seems like an appropriate 
> activity for this cluster so I'll ask the group if this is of 
> interest. I'll say, for myself as a research coder, this seems like a 
> very real way to an actionable, positive community project.
>
> We will be discussing the current status of the TRL Evaluation 
> spreadsheet directly related to that on the next P&S telecon Tuesday, 
> Jan 19 at 2M EDT.
>
> If you're local to the Boulder area, we're planning an upcoming BESSIG 
> meeting/brainstorming session around this topic so stay tuned for that 
> (and get on the BESSIG mailing list). For those outside of the Front 
> Range, if there's interest, I'm certainly open to having a similar 
> activity during one of the monthly telecons.
>
> We would love for input, as well, from more active developers as 
> domain experts - I would like to see an evaluation process that is 
> meaningful for both developers and PIs. Let us know here or through 
> Slack (we have an ESIP slack, fyi) if you're interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Soren
>
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> Soren Scott
> Research Coder
> The Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship
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