Face-to-Face Meeting for Software Task Force

该提案是为一个小型的仅限邀请的研讨会申请资金，该研讨会主要由软件工作组的成员和受邀者组成。这个工作组是ACCI的一个小组委员会，主要负责审查软件基础设施中的问题。该工作组的章程是就如何最好地履行NSF使命提出建议，并帮助满足对无处不在、可靠和易于访问的软件的需求，以支持科学和工程研究的需求。软件基础设施的发展是有机的，不一致的，其开发和采用是由拼凑的资金结构和零星的特定于应用程序的资源可用性驱动的。目前，已通过电话和电子邮件编写了一份报告草稿。为了更有效和高效地讨论报告细节，重要的是要举行面对面的会议，讨论可以在几个小时而不是几分钟内进行。本次会议的目标是通过报告的细节，以便可以向广泛的社区传播经过改进的早期报告，以获得认可和反馈。会议成果将包括一份经过完善的报告，可随时分发给广大社区。

The proposal is to request funds for a small invitation only workshop comprising principally of members of the Software Taskforce and invitees. Intellectual Merit This taskforce constituted as a subcommittee of the ACCI is focused on examining issues in Software Infrastructure. The charter for this task force is to form recommendations on how best to fulfill the NSF mission and help meet the demand for ubiquitous, reliable, and easily accessible software to support science and engineering research needs. Software infrastructure has evolved organically and inconsistently, with its development and adoption being driven by patchwork funding structures and sporadic application-specific resource availability. At this time, a draft report has been developed with communication via telecons and emails. To allow for a more effective and efficient discussion about the report details, it is important to have a face-to-face meeting whereby discussions can occur over hours instead of minutes. The goal of this meeting is to go through the details of the report such that a refined early report can be disseminated to the broad community for buy-in and feedback. The meeting outcome will consist of a refined report that will be ready for dissemination to the broad community.