Software Sustainability Institute on The Carpentries

Software Sustainability Institute Funding

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Software Sustainability Institute, a partner organization which is committed to cultivating world-class research through software, has received £3.5M in funding to continue its valuable support for the UK's research software community. Two new funders, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), have joined forces with the Institute's original funder, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), to continue to invest in research that is underpinned by software until at least 2019. For the full announcement, please see this post on the SSI site.

Congratulations!

SSI Fellowship Applications Open

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Fellowship Programme run by the Software Sustainability Institute funds researchers in exchange for their expertise and advice. The main goals of the Programme are encouraging best practice and gathering information about research software from all disciplines, and encouraging Fellows to develop their interests in the area of software sustainability (especially in their areas of work). The Programme also supports capacity building and policy development initiatives.

Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2015

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2015 (CW15), which will be held on March 25-27, 2015 in Oxford, UK, focusses on software, best practice and the social side of working past the boundaries of traditional disciplines and roles to accelerate research outcomes—or put differently, interdisciplinarity done right!

What will you learn by attending:

The social and technical sides of interdisciplinary working.
Examples of best practice of when it's been effective - and horror stories of when it has not.
Examples of techniques and technologies that could be applied from one discipline to another - discipline hopping.

A Research Software Petition

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

"We must accept that software is fundamental to research, or we will lose our ability to make groundbreaking discoveries." If you agree—and I hope you do—then please take a moment to add your name to this petition posted by the Software Sustainability Institute, and then help to spread the word by blogging, tweeting, and telling your friends.

SSI Collaborations Workshop and Hackday

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Software Sustainability Institute is running the annual Collaborations Workshop (CW14) on 26-28 March in Oxford. The event brings together researchers, software developers, managers and funders to explore important ideas in software and research and to plant the seed of interdisciplinary collaborations. The theme this year is "Software in your reproducible research" and we also have a hackday!

News from the SSI

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Two announcements from the Software Sustainability Institute caught our eye this week:

Their next Collaborations Workshop will be held on March 26-27, 2014, in Oxford. This annual gathering brings together researchers, software developers, managers, funders and more to explore important ideas in software and research and to plant the seeds of interdisciplinary collaborations.
Sixteen new SSI Fellows have been selected: congratulations to them all!