First URSSI Workshop, Berkeley, CA (April 10-12, 2018)
First Software Sustainability Institute Workshop in Berkeley, CA (April 10-12)
In this workshop, we want to:
- Introduce URSSI
- Help attendees meet each other and understand their goals
- Pilot some initial survey questions, and gather inputs about where our survey should be distributed
- Talk about the idea of ethnographic studies, and gather ideas on specific people and projects to study
- Present a set of topics that we think will be potential areas of work in a future institute
- Identify a subset of these, plus additional topics that are potentially important to the community, to discuss further
- Refine, merge, discard topics
- Find who among the attendees might lead discussion on them
- Document the workshop’s results
We want to come out of this workshop with:
- An informed and enthused set of attendees (including a group photo)
- An improved survey, and a set of survey distribution mechanism
- Potential ethnographic study subjects
- An initial list of candidate topics for an institute, some of which may be well-understood
- A set of topics that should be further discussed in smaller follow-on workshops
- Initial thoughts on institute roles - what could an institute do to address the topics?
- Initial thoughts on institute organization - how could an institute be organized to do this?
Report
The report from the workshop is now available.
Agenda
The full agenda is available on the GitHub repository for the workshop.
Open questions
Tell us what you think. What have we missed? What else do you think we should do during the workshop to best achieve the goals? What do you not understand? What do you want to learn and/or take away from the workshop? If you’d like to propose a discussion, please post an issue
Related Material
If you would like to write a short position paper for this workshop and this overall project, please feel free to do so, and to self-publish it (via arxiv.org, figshare, zenodo, OSF, etc.), then send us (contact@urssi.us) a link to your paper, and we will post it on our website (http://urssi.us).
We will also be collecting links to related projects, papers, and reports on our website (http://urssi.us/resources/). Please feel free to send us (contact@urssi.us) any links that you think we should list, if possible, along with a few words about how each is related.
Resources