Telecon Agenda & Notes

Science Software culture telecon meeting notes: 05.16.2015

On call:

• Annie Burgess
• Bob Downs
• Chris Lenhardt
• Erin Robinson
• Nic Weber

Ideas for what we might do in future months…

• Combine our efforts with Force 11 group on Software Citation principles link
• Pick up on any of the available topics from RENCI Workshop for data and software citation link
• Collaborating with documentation or data stewardship clusters on future work towards principles for sustainable software stewardship. [more below]

Principles for Sustainable Software Stewardship

• By principles we mean what activities / actions should be taken to ensure software remains accessible, and useful over the long-term.
  
• And in what ways these principles are unique to ESIP stakeholders.
• Should be like science software best practices… but not about engineering of software alone.
• The inspiration for this activity is the data stewardship principles that describe responsible curation of earth science data, without being prescriptive of how those curation activities are to be implemented / carried out
• Our hope is to have some sort of community-wide ESIP revision of these principles and a vote of some kind for their acceptance (?)

Principles for Data Stewardship

• Were voted on by ESIP general assembly
• Were approved as a “policy recommendation” by ESIP
• Received extensive input from technology cluster
• 2 to 3 pages, bulleted points that identify stakeholders and responsibilities.

Next steps for this effort:

1. Chris will draft emails for potential speakers during our summer meeting.
2. High level document for stewarding software outline. This might include following topics
   • Documentation (should recognize the funder)
   • Recommended citation
   • Recommended license
     
   • hosting (where lives)
3. Second “related topics” document
   • gather project that may be already working on some of these issues
   • provide place for contributions.
4. Next meeting: 06/19 or 06/26 ?