NSF Workshop: Building Communities for Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation

“为持续创新的软件基础设施构建社区”的研讨会将软件可持续性的实践者（包括NSF SI2的参与者）聚集在一起，讨论共同感兴趣的问题和挑战，制定有利于整个软件企业的响应，并努力构建一个由软件开发人员、维护者、支持者和用户组成的社区。本次研讨会还建立了SI2项目与其他NSF CIF21项目之间的具体联系，以帮助这些项目在科学和工程研究服务中成为网络基础设施的连贯提供者。这个研讨会讨论了软件成功的许多挑战；例如，维持一个开发人员社区，建立一个用户社区，促进创新并将创新转化为可靠的、高质量的软件组件，与其他工作建立联系/隶属关系，开发和维护软件需求，针对不稳定的软件基础管理变更，针对创新的新软件和硬件平台；开发机制来培训新用户并教育下一代在科学和工程发现中使用软件的方法，以及成为下一组软件功能的开发人员，等等。是次工作坊旨在培育软件可持续发展社群，为多元化的用户社群带来创新、可用和可持续发展的软件，并在科学和工程研究以及新软件开发方面促进更多创新，以更好地利用全面的网络基础设施。

The workshop for "Building Communities for Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation" brings together the practitioners of software sustainability, including NSF SI2 participants, to discuss issues and challenges of common interest, to formulate responses benefitting the software enterprise as a whole, and working to build a community of software developers, maintainers, supporters, and users. This workshop also builds concrete affiliations between SI2 projects and other NSF CIF21 projects to help these programs function as coherent providers of cyberinfrastructure in the service of science and engineering research.This workshop addresses numerous challenges to success with software; for instance, sustaining a community of developers, building a community of users, fostering innovation and transforming innovation into a reliable, high quality component of software, building liaisons/affiliations with other efforts, developing and maintaining software requirements, managing change against an unstable software substrate, targeting innovative new software and hardware platforms; developing mechanisms to train new users and educate the next generations in ways to use software in scientific and engineering discovery, as well as to be developers of the next set of software capabilities, etc. The workshop will cultivate the software sustainability community, in order to bring innovative, useable, sustainable software to the user community, as diverse as they are, and to foster even more innovation, both in science and engineering research, as well as in the development of new software to enable better utilization of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure.