2016 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Principal Investigators Workshop

该项目将在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举办为期1.5天的研讨会，将汇集来自约250个奖项的SI2获奖者社区（目标是每个SSE和SSI项目的一名首席研究员，其中许多是合作奖项）。该研讨会将有来自SI2 EAGER和RAPID获奖者和ACI VOSS计划的选定获奖者的参与，该计划从社会和组织的角度审视网络基础设施。此外，靠近NSF将鼓励来自基金会各地的项目官员参与。该讲习班的目标包括：（a）为PI提供一个集中的论坛，以便相互之间以及与NSF计划官员共享技术信息，（B）鼓励探索新出现的主题，（c）确定支持的软件项目中出现的最佳实践，（d）激发对实现软件可持续性的新方法的思考，及（d）透过一个网上门户网站，传播研究人员的经验分享。工作坊预计将有近150名第二阶段研究员及其他获奖者、其他讲者及专题小组成员出席。研讨会将采用混合式方式，将传统的、自上而下的议程与互动的、适应性强的、参与者驱动的议程相结合。拟议的讲习班将支持当前软件网络基础设施开发项目之间的思想交流。它将就与开发可靠软件和软件可持续性问题有关的问题提供指导。 整个NSF的项目官员的参与预计将帮助跨学科的SI2获奖者了解整个NSF网络基础设施的相关性和影响。这些研究人员和项目官员参加一个共同的论坛将有助于确保作为SI2项目一部分开发的网络基础设施软件将与大多数科学和工程领域相关并广泛适用。混合方法是创新的，并有望在PI之间创建丰富的交互，从而实现更丰富的协作和学习。因此，本次研讨会的结果有可能指导参与项目和更广泛的软件开发社区的网络基础设施开发和网络基础设施驱动的研究。

This project will host a 1.5-day workshop in Arlington, VA, which will bring together the community of SI2 awardees (with the goal of involving one principal investigator from each SSE and SSI project, many of which are collaborative awards) from approximately 250 awards. The workshop will have participation from SI2 EAGER and RAPID awardees and selected awardees of the ACI VOSS program that examines cyberinfrastructures from the social and organizational perspective. In addition, the proximity to NSF will encourage participation by Program Officers from across the Foundation. Goals of this workshop include: (a) providing a focused forum for PIs to share technical information with each other and with NSF Program Officers, (b) encouraging exploration of emerging topics, (c) identifying emerging best practices across the supported software projects, (d) stimulating thinking on new ways of achieving software sustainability, and (d) disseminating the shared experiences of the researchers via an online web portal.The workshop is expected to host close to 150 SI2 and other awardees, other speakers and panelists. The workshop will use a hybrid style, blending a traditional, top-down driven agenda with a interactive, adaptive, participant-driven agenda. The proposed workshop will support the exchange of ideas among the current software cyberinfrastructure development projects. It will provide guidance on issues related to the development of robust software and to the problem of software sustainability. Involvement of program officers across NSF is expected to help the interdisciplinary SI2 awardees understand the relevance and impact of cyberinfrastructure throughout the NSF. The participation of these researchers and program officers in a common forum will help ensure that the cyberinfrastructure software developed as part of SI2 projects will be relevant and broadly applicable to the most science and engineering domains possible. The hybrid approach is innovative and holds the promise of creating rich interactions among PIs, resulting in richer collaboration and learning. The results of this workshop thus have the potential to guide cyberinfrastructure development and cyberinfrastructure driven research for both the participating projects and for the wider software development community.