Sustainability

Dave Roberts, Vince Smith & Simon Rycroft

Components of sustainabilityFinancial:

hardware (running the VM, licences, etc) Development (salary costs for bug-fixing,

minor upgrades, user help)Confidence: internal - institutional relevance; external - user perception, commitment,

stability, longevity, exit strategy

Marketing:growing the user base;

visibility; contributing to the landscapeAgility: changing standards; volatile user requirements; adaptability.

Finance

Hardware: estimated annual cost ~€1000Share of a virtual machine, licenses, applying patches

Warmware: 1 FTE, ~€100k

1 FTE, ~€75kDeveloper: bug fixing, minor upgrades, data compatibility

User support, issues queue management, user training

1 FTE, ~€150k (part)Project leadership and management, grant writing, in-house integration, project promotion

and, most importantly, a champion ...

Confidence

Embedded in Institutional planning

Service Level Description

How safe are my data?Will I get credit for my

work?

Data ownership and licensing

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Number of Citations Papers mentioning the Scratchpad Project

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Marketing

Time to model all life on Earth

To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists — like climate scientists — should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleagues.

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Agility

Changing landscape

Responsive to user feedback

Genomic Observatories

Moorea Biocode Project