2019
Software sustainability
Characterized scientific software sustainability, described impediments to improving it, and identified possible approaches.
23 white papers and 20 presentations
Visit the 2019 site ↗Collegeville Workshops on Scientific Software
From 2019 through 2021, this series brought together community leaders and practitioners in scientific software from industry, research labs and academia. Each workshop took on one theme, and its white papers, presentations and recordings remain available on its own site.
The workshops
2020
Developer productivity
Examined what helps scientific software developers produce more over time, from definitions and challenges to technical and cultural approaches.
34 white papers, recorded talks, posters and teatime themes
Visit the 2020 site ↗2021
Software teams
Explored how small teams, large teams and teams of teams work, and how that teamwork can improve.
13 white papers, recordings and teatime themes
Visit the 2021 site ↗Why these workshops
Corporations, research labs and universities all develop, use and support scientific software. Each tends to have its own business model and priorities, yet their products depend on one another. We believe bringing these communities together is what set this series apart. The goal was to identify the challenges they share and the differences that matter. Each workshop was planned by an organizing committee from across these communities, and its site lists the members.
How the series evolved
We originally expected to alternate between software sustainability and developer productivity. We then moved to choosing an emerging theme each year, which led to software teams in 2021. The first workshop met on campus at St. John's University. The next two were virtual because of the pandemic, and each spent its three days moving from challenges to technical approaches and then cultural approaches for improvement.
After 2021
The 2022 workshop was postponed to 2023 because of continued complications from the pandemic. The 2023 workshop was then not held because of continued logistics and staffing challenges. The series has concluded.