Report on the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)
It addresses the challenge of developing sustainable software tools for the scientific community, but is incremental as it builds on previous workshops without introducing new methods or data.
This report documents the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science (WSSSPE4), covering presentations, discussions, and working groups aimed at improving software practices in scientific research, with results from an attendee survey included.
This report records and discusses the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4). The report includes a description of the keynote presentation of the workshop, the mission and vision statements that were drafted at the workshop and finalized shortly after it, a set of idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and lightning talks, and a panel discussion. The main part of the report covers the set of working groups that formed during the meeting, and for each, discusses the participants, the objective and goal, and how the objective can be reached, along with contact information for readers who may want to join the group. Finally, we present results from a survey of the workshop attendees.