Water Science Software Institute: An open source engagement process

Author

Ahalt, Stan ; Minsker, Barbara ; Tiemann, M. ; Band, Larry ; Palmer, Margaret ; Idaszak, Ray ; Lenhardt, Chris ; Whitton, Mary

Author_Institution

Renaissance Comput. Inst. (RENCI), Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

18-18 May 2013

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

47

Abstract

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.

Keywords

environmental science computing; public domain software; software prototyping; water resources; Agile; OCEP model; WSSI; open source engagement process; open source software development; public-private water science software institute; Acceleration; Communities; Educational institutions; Open source software; Technological innovation; Water resources; Agile software development; Open Source software; Scientific Software Innovation Institute; water science;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SE-CSE), 2013 5th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECSE.2013.6615098

Filename

6615098