First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and

ExperiencesDaniel S. Katz

Gabrielle AllenNeil Chue Hong

Manish ParasharDavid ProctorTweet? #wssspe

Notes? bit.ly/wssspe13

Process to-date• Organizers decided on initial topics• Invited PC members, who helped refine topics• Submissions turned in through 58 self-published short position and

experience papers• PC members invited to review self-selected papers, average of 3.12

reviews per paper• 54 papers viewed as relevant and making a contribution; these

papers are linked from the workshop website• Based on reviews, organizers grouped papers into three areas, and

again based on reviews, selected panelists to represent each area• Invited 2 keynote speakers• Wrote up short description of this process, published as arXiv report

(http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3523)– Documents what we have done– Contains links to each paper, to help get them in the indexing system

At the workshop• 2 keynotes to provide some themes

– 8:45 – 10:15 Introduction (Daniel S. Katz)– Philip E. Bourne: A Recipe for Sustainable Software– Arfon Smith: Scientific Software and the Open Collaborative Web– 10:15 – 10:30 break

• 3 panels to discuss contributions– 10:30 – 12:00 Panel 1: Developing & Supporting Software (moderator Manish Parashar;

panelists Anshu Dubey, Juliana Freire, Mark Miller, and Vaidy Sunderam)– 12:00 – 1:30 lunch break (on your own, lunch not provided by SC13)– 1:30 – 3:00 Panel 2: Policy (moderator Neil Chue Hong; panelists Christopher Lenhardt,

Daisie Huang, Heather Piwowar, and Victoria Stodden)– 3:00 – 3:30 break– 3:30 – 5:30 Panel 3: Communities (moderator Gabrielle Allen; panelists Karen Cranston,

Daniel Crawford, Ian Foster, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr)– Wrap-up discussion (Daniel S. Katz): results and next steps

• Open discussion is welcome, as part of panels and in the closing discussion primarily, but also as questions following the keynotes, and in the breaks and lunch

• Tweet? #wssspe• Notes? bit.ly/wssspe13

What happens next• It’s up to all of us to decide• Because of the NSF connection, some themes will be further discussed in a

workshop for SI2 PIs being planned for February• More open follow-up workshops/conference possible

– Think about the right venues for a workshop– Is enough here for a full conference?

• Each contributor: consider an additional version of your contributions based on learning from discussion?– Self published? Traditionally published? Venue for submission?– Special issue?

• All participants: consider if there are specific issues, challenges, or solutions raised in the workshop that you would contribute to further debate through co-authored papers from the workshop, or through blog posts.– Depending on how the panels go, this might be a paper per panel, or it might be

that each panel chair identifies key cross-cutting challenges that are shared with the other panels (for instance education and training).

– Who is interested?– Venue for submission?