understanding sustainability and doing it better

Software Sustainability Institute

www.software.ac.uk

Understanding Sustainability and Doing It Better

03 March 2011Neil Chue Hong, Director, SSIN.ChueHong@software.ac.uk

sus·taintr.v. sus·tained, sus·tain·ing, sus·tains; n. sus·taina·bili·ty; adj. sus·taina·ble1. To keep in existence; maintain.

Software Sustainability Institute

www.software.ac.uk

The Software Sustainability Institute

A national facility for building better software• Better software enables better research• Software reaches boundaries in its

maturity cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption

• Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage• Software reviews and refactoring, collaborations

to develop your project, guidance and best practice on software development, project management, community building, publicity and more…

Software Sustainability Institute

www.software.ac.uk

Case Study: Climate Policy Modelling

• CIAS team at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia Develop linked climate and economic models for detailed

analysis Their software was not ready to be used by other groups

• One researcher/developer at UEA, several users

• SSI’s work means the software is robust enough that it can be installed and used by others Enabled use of the software by the WWFN’s Climascope

project and James Cook University• Documented software to allow extensions by contributors• Made it easier to maintain and backup• Added job scheduling to improve modeling throughput• New modelling framework enables new models i.e. new science

• http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/cias

Why collaborate?

Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more

people or organizations work together intersection of

common goals by sharing knowledge, learning and

building consensus

Collaboration is the suspension of mutual hatred and distrust for

mutual gain

Collaboration allows us to create partnerships which

enable better research

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Talks

Breakout Sessions

Informal Discussion

Ideas Room

Get across a point Provoke a discussion

Debate, refineBe curious

Collaborate

Define, drawPrioritise

Create, shapeAgree, action