Agenda
(note: keynote and lightning talks streamed at http://ucarconnect.ucar.edu/live?room=cg1aud and recorded — keynote recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHcL8WSpbhQ; lightning talk recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMH7FTGqQEE)
Monday, 28 September (Auditorium – Center)
noon — registration
1:00 pm — Introduction & Kickoff
2:00 pm — Keynote: Matthew Turk, University of Illinois, “Should scientific software be sustained?” (slides, recording) & lightning talks (see below) (recording)
3:30 pm — short break (coffee, snacks to be purchased by attendees at the cafeteria in the building)
3:45 pm — continued lightning talks (see below) (recording)
4:45 pm — getting into working groups (list of possible groups in CFP, specific groups will depend on attendee interests) (available breakout rooms: Auditorium South, 2126, 2503, 2603, 2607, and 3131)
6:25 pm — end of formal day 1
6:45 pm — dinner (reservations made for groups of ~8 at local restaurants, groups to self-assemble); dinner options:
- Cheesecake Factory (American) – 1401 Pearl St. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Boulder Beer Brewery (brewpub) – 2880 Wilderness Pl. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Chez Thuy (Vietnamese) – 2655 28th St. (reservation under Inken Purvis)
- The Mediterranean Restaurant (middle eastern) – 1002 Walnut St. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Carelli’s (Italian) – 645 30th St. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Jaipur (Indian) – 1800 Broadway #160 (reservation under Inken Purvis)
- Rio Grande (Mexican) – 1101 Walnut St. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Zolo (southwestern) – 2525 Arapahoe Ave. (reservation under WSSSPE)
- Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant – 2010 16th St. (reservation under Lorraine Hwang)
Tuesday, 29 September
8:30 am — Working group presentations – partially “pitched” to the audience, possibly including some funders (who would not committed to funding anything, just providing feedback), including e.g., NSF, EPSRC, Sloan.
9:30 am — Working group activities
10:30 am — short break (coffee, snacks to be purchased by attendees at the cafeteria in the building)
10:45 am — more working group activities
noon — lunch (to be purchased by attendees at the cafeteria in the building)
1:00 pm — yet more working group activities
3:15 pm — short break (coffee, snacks to be purchased by attendees at the cafeteria in the building)
3:30 pm — working group final present backs
4:30 pm — closing discussion
5:00 pm — end of formal meeting
Wednesday, 30 September
8:30 am to 5:00 pm — (optional) WSSSPE3 report writing (room 2503)
coffee, snacks, and lunch to be purchased by attendees at the cafeteria in the building
Lightning Talks:
(in reverse alphabetic order of the first author’s surname)
- Benjamin Tovar and Douglas Thain. Freedom vs. Stability: Facilitating Research Training While Supporting Scientific Research
- Birgit Penzenstadler, Colin Venters, Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Norbert Seyff. Manifesting the Ghost of the Future: Sustainability
- Abani Patra, Hossein Aghakhani, Nikolay Simakov, Matthew D. Jones and Tevfik Kosar. Integrating New Functionality Using Smart Interfaces to Improve Productivity of Legacy Tools
- Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Bill Mills, Arliss Collins and Kaitlin Thaney. Collaborative Software Development as Sustainable Software: Lessons from Open Source
- Louise Kellogg and Lorraine Hwang. Advancing Earth Science through Best Practices in Open Source Software: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
- Lorraine Hwang, Joe Dumit, Alison Fish, Louise Kellogg, Mackenzie Smith and Laura Soito. Software Attribution for Geoscience Applications in the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
- Mike Hildreth, Jarek Nabrzyski, Da Huo, Peter Ivie, Haiyan Meng, Douglas Thain and Charles Vardeman. Data And Software Preservation for Open Science (DASPOS)
- James Hetherington, Jonathan Cooper, Robert Haines, Simon Hettrick, James Spencer, Mark Stillwell, Mike Croucher, Christopher Woods and Susheel Varma. Research Software Engineering Groups in Universities: The Story from the UK
- Dan Gunter, Sarah Poon and Lavanya Ramakrishnan. Bringing the User into Building Sustainable Software for Science
- Dan Gunter, Adam Arkin, Rick Stevens, Robert Cottingham and Sergei Maslov. Challenges of a Sustainable Software Platform for Predictive Biology: Lessons Learned on the KBase Project
- Yolanda Gil, Chris Duffy, Chris Mattmann, Erin Robinson and Karan Venayagamoorthy. The Geoscience Paper of the Future Initiative: Training Scientists in Best Practices of Software Sharing
- Neil Chue Hong. Building a Scientific Software Accreditation Framework
- Jeffrey Carver. On the Need for Software Engineering Support for Sustainable Scientic Software
- Matthias Bussonnier. User Data Collection in Open Source
- Alice Allen. We’re giving away the store! (Merchandise not included)
- Stan Ahalt, Bruce Berriman, Maxine Brown, Jeffrey Carver, Neil Chue Hong, Allison Fish, Ray Idaszak, Greg Newman, Dhabaleswar Panda, Abani Patra, Elbridge Gerry Puckett, Chris Roland, Douglas Thain, Selcuk Uluagac, and Bo Zhang. Scientific Software Success: Developing Metrics While Developing Community
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