NS44A:
Open-Source Software in the Geosciences

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Session ID#: 30500

Session Description:
Open-source software contributions have the potential to accelerate the field. We are soliciting submissions that discuss open-source software and explore its interaction with the wider scientific community: What are motivating factors for developing open-source software? What are examples of its impacts?

There are questions about the implementation and functioning of an open-source community: How do developers engage with the community? How are new contributors/users on-boarded? What lessons can you offer to those who are involved in other open-source initiatives?

Attribution for software contributions is an immature topic that is particularly important for early-career scientists and relevant to tenure track, hiring, and proposal review panels. How should the scientific community recognize these contributions?

Wrestling with these questions is perhaps one of the main reasons why open-source products are still relatively rare; we would like to explore these in a session and panel discussion.

Primary Convener:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conveners:  Luz Angélica Caudillo Mata, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Anna Kelbert, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Jared Peacock, USGS, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Chairs:  Anna Kelbert, USGS Geomagnetism Program, Denver, CO, United States and Louise Pellerin, Green Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Louise Pellerin, Green Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Near Surface Geophysics, and Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism

Cross-Listed:
  • GP - Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

0599 General or miscellaneous [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
1902 Community modeling frameworks [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
1978 Software re-use [INFORMATICS]

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