The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)
This addresses the need for sustainable software practices in scientific research communities, but it is incremental as it reports on a workshop rather than introducing new methods or results.
The article summarizes the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science (WSSSPE5.1), which tackled the problem of promoting sustainable research software through discussions on principles, best practices, and community activities, resulting in outputs from speed-blogging groups and various paper presentations.
This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and best practices, careers, learning, and credit. This article discusses the Code of Conduct, idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and lightning talks presented during the workshop. The main part of the article discusses the speed-blogging groups that formed during the meeting, along with the outputs of those sessions.