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About WSSSPE

Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels and it is now critical to address many new challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software. In addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a new set of software-related skills and methodologies.

Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills, and in particular a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic environments who are an integral and embedded part of successful research teams.

WSSSPE provides a forum for discussion of the challenges, including both positions and experiences, and a forum for the community to assemble and act.

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Community & Channels

Mailing List
Twitter
Facebook
Slack
  • There is a Slack team for WSSSPE
    • including channels for various working groups
  • To join the main team
  • Once you have joined the main team, join other channels through slack

Report of WSSSPE5.1 and the state of sus...

A report on WSSSPE5.1 and the state of sustainable research software is now available: D. S. Katz, S. Druskat, R. Haines, C. Jay, A. Struck, “The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1),” arXiv:1807.07387 [cs.SE], 2018.

WSSSPE6.1 Call for Submissions

The 9th International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE6.1) has published its Call for Submissions.  WSSSPE6.1 will be a 1-day workshop during the IEEE eScience 2018 conference, October 29, 2018, in Amsterdam.  

WSSSPE4 summary paper published

The summary paper for WSSSPE4 has now been published in the Journal of Open Research Software as http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.184.  An extended version of the summary was also previously published on arXiv as http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02607.

WSSSPE5.1: Workshop Proceedings publishe...

WSSSPE5.1, the 7th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences, will be held this Wednesday, 6 September 2017, at the University of Manchester, directly preceding the 2nd Conference of Research Software Engineers. The abstracts for all papers and talks for the workshop have now been published online as a collection on figshare: Chue […]

WSSSPE5.1: Submission deadline extended ...

The submission deadline for the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1) has been extended to 17 July 2017. We are looking forward to submissions answering our Call for Submissions. Please submit via the WSSSPE5.1 EasyChair site until 23:55 GMT on 17 July 2017.

Save the Date: WSSSPE5.1

The Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1), will be held on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at the University of Manchester, UK. The 1-day workshop is directly preceding the 2nd Conference of Research Software Engineers which is also held in Manchester, from 7-8 September 2017. The call for submissions to WSSSPE5.1 will […]

WSSSPE logos

A variety of new WSSSPE logos are available on https://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe-logos/, as created by Francisco Queiroz (Tecgraf Institute and Arts & Design Dept. – PUC-Rio)