URSSI Workshops on Website of the US Research Software Sustainability Institute

Final URSSI Workshop, Chicago, April 2019

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Our last workshop was a final meeting of the PIs, Senior Personnel, Advisory Committee members and a few guests. We met in Chicago 9-10 April 2019 to work through the outputs of the previous workshops, survey, and ethnographic studies, as well as inputs provided by the community through our discussion board, with the goal of starting to write an institute plan, including a draft organization and budget.

Workshop on software incubators, February 2019

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Our fourth workshop was the second of URSSI’s topic focused community gatherings. This workshop brought together a diverse group of experienced software funders, community managers, developers, researchers, and software users to share their experiences supporting and maintaining software incubator programs.

The meeting featured lightning talks and discussions over two days. Our goal was to come away from the workshop with a clearer vision of how URSSI might either develop a new incubator program, or connect to and support existing incubators.

Workshop on software metrics, credit and citation, January 2019

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:37:53 -0700

Our third workshop was the first of our topic focused community gatherings. Over two days in January 2019, 20 participants who are experts in various aspects of software citation and credit gathered in Santa Barbara to discuss how an institute can help researchers get credit for their software contributions and explore various other metrics that could help address the credit problem. The meeting followed an unconference format and featurde lightning talks and discussions over two days.

Second URSSI Workshop in Chicago, IL (October 23-24, 2018)

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:45:36 -0800

Second Research Software Sustainability Institute Workshop in Chicago, IL (October 23-24, 2018)

We are excited to announce the second workshop in the URSSI conceptualization which will take place October 23 and 24 at the Illini Center in Chicago, IL. Similar to our first workshop in Berkeley, the event will be mostly participant driven. In addition to a few keynotes and lightning talks, the agenda will mostly be open discussions around topics suggested by participants prior to and during the meeting.

First URSSI Workshop, Berkeley, CA (April 10-12, 2018)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:51:36 -0800

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: