Water Science Software Institute: An open source engagement process
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ahalt, Stan; Minsker, Barbara; Tiemann, Michael; Band, Larry; Palmer, Margaret; Idaszak, Ray; Lenhardt, Chris; Whitton, Mary
- Source
- 2013 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SE-CSE) Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SE-CSE), 2013 5th International Workshop on. :40-47 May, 2013
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communities
Acceleration
Water resources
Technological innovation
Educational institutions
Open source software
Scientific Software Innovation Institute
Agile software development
Open Source software
water science
- Language
We have conceptualized a public/private Water Science Software Institute (WSSI) whose mission is “to enable and accelerate transformative water science by concurrently transforming both the software culture and the research culture of the water science community”. To achieve our goals, we have applied an Open Community Engagement Process (OCEP), based in large part on the principles and practices of Agile and Open Source software development. This manuscript describes the WSSI and the OCEP model we have developed to operationalize the WSSI.