Water Science Software Institute: Agile and Open Source Scientific Software Development

Author

Ahalt, Stan ; Band, Larry ; Christopherson, Laura ; Idaszak, Ray ; Lenhardt, Chris ; Minsker, Barbara ; Palmer, Margaret ; Shelley, Matthew ; Tiemann, M. ; Zimmerman, Ann

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

May-June 2014

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

26

Abstract

An Open Community Engagement Process (OCEP) applies open source mechanics and software engineering to water science research. To operationalize OCEP, the authors conceptualize a Water Science Software Institute whose mission is to support and accelerate water science by transforming both the software and research cultures of the water science community. This article describes the OCEP open source community amplification principle as well as the authors´ experiences, lessons learned, and challenges with operationalizing OCEP.

Keywords

public domain software; scientific information systems; software prototyping; water; agile software development; open community engagement process; open source mechanics; open source scientific software development; software engineering; water science software institute; Agile computing; Collaboration; Open source software; Scientific computing; Software engineering; Water resources; Agile; hackathon; open community engagement process; open source; scientific computing; scientific software development; water science;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2014.5

Filename

6728937