Working Agenda

Sept 12, Monday, afternoon, plenary, room IT.407 (enter via Kilburn)

1:00 pm
  • WSSSPE4 Introduction – Daniel S. Katz, Costa Michailidis, Tim Dunne (slides)
  • WSSSPE3 working group summaries – Daniel S. Katz + group leads (slides)
    • Best Practices in Developing Sustainable Software – Sandra Gesing
    • Funding Research Programmer Expertise – James Hetherington
    • Transition Pathways to Sustainable Software: Industry & Academic Collaboration – TBD
    • Principles for Software Engineering Design for Sustainable Software – TBD
    • Useful Metrics for Scientific Software – Gabrielle Allen
    • Training – TBD
    • Software Credit – Kyle Niemeyer
    • Publishing Software – Steve Brandt
    • Building Sustainable Communities – TBD
  • WSSSPE Code of Conduct – Michael Crusoe
2:00 pm WSSSPE Mission Statement – Lorraine Hwang (slides)
2:05 pm Introductory activities
2:55 pm Plenary talks (10 min each):
3:35 pm break
3:50 pm Lightning talks (4 min each):
4:35 pm Introductory Activities
5:30 End of day, dinner on your own

Sept 13, Tuesday, morning, plenary, room Kilburn LF39 (Collab)

8:45 am Introductory Activities
9:15 am Plenary talks (10 min each):
9:35 am Plenary lightning talks (4 min each):
9:50 am Morning break
10:05 am Working in stations
12:15 pm Review and organize station work; prepare for tracks
12:40 pm Lunch on your own (suggestion: Eats Restaurant [University Place])

Sept 13, Tuesday, early afternoon, plenary, room IT.407 (enter via Kilburn)

1:40 pm Keynote: Patricia Lago, Legacy of Unsustainable Software (slides)
2:10 pm Discussion, Final Introductions
2:45 pm Afternoon break

Sept 13, Tuesday, late afternoon, tracks

Track 1, room Kilburn LF39 (Collab) Track 2, room IT.407
3:00 pm Introduction – Michael Crusoe Introduction – Sandra Gesing
3:05 pm Breakout discussions Papers (10 min each):
3:40 pm Breakout discussions Lightning talks (4 min each):
4:00 pm Breakout discussions Breakout discussions
5:30 pm End of day, dinner on your own

Sept 14, Wednesday, morning, tracks

Track 1, room Kilburn LF39 (Collab) Track 2, room IT.407
8:45 am Plenary (room Kilburn LF39 (Collab)) – Reports from Track 1 and Track 2 working groups with feedback. (or may be split by track, TBD)
10:00 am Incorporate feedback into project team work Papers: (10 min each)
10:20 am Breakout discussions & WSSSPE mission discussion Breakout discussions
10:45 am Morning break Morning break
11:00 am Breakout discussions & WSSSPE mission discussion Breakout discussions
1:25 pm Lunch on your own (suggestion: Eats Restaurant [University Place]) Lunch on your own (suggestion: Eats Restaurant [University Place])

Sept 14, Wednesday, afternoon, room IT.407 (enter via Kilburn)

2:15 pm Panel Session: Best Practices for Scientific Software, moderated by Simon Hettrick, University of Southampton, Panelists:

  • Alice Allen – Editor, Astrophysics Source Code Library
  • Mike Croucher – RSE Leader at University of Sheffield
  • Rob Haines – RSE Leader at the University of Manchester, and RSE Conference Chair
  • Patricia Lago – Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
  • Karthik Ram – Data Scientist, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley
3:15 pm WSSSPE Mission wrap-up
3:45 pm WSSSPE Implementation planning
4:45 pm Closing remarks
5:00 pm End

When in parallel tracks:

  • Track 1: Working sessions with a facilitated discussion, breakout sessions, report backs, and active writing towards the track goal of defining a vision of the future of open-use research software, and a plan of activities that are needed to get there.
  • Track 2: Presentations of position papers, experience papers, previously published works, and demos; and breakout sessions or unconference sessions.