The Software Sustainability Institute

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CW20 speed blog: Maintaining your legacy - tips for making legacy code sustainable

By Matthew Bluteau (editor), Blair Archibald, Leonardo Uieda, Iain Barrass and Jon Massey

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CW20 speed blog: Carrot and stick approaches to promoting research software as a community

By Daniel Hobley (editor), Alison Clarke, Philip Grylls, Mateusz Kuzak, Louise Brown and Alessandro Felder
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CW20 speed blog: Best practices for building an institutionally based community

By Carlos Martinez (editor), Mario Antonioletti, Paddy McCann, Yasir Noori and Anastasis Georgoulas
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News

New report on career paths and prospects in US academic data science

A report looks at the career paths and prospects of people working in academic data science in the US.
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Call for governments, businesses and research institutions to keep records

"The duty to document does not cease in a crisis, it becomes more essential."
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Rachael Ainsworth

Rachael Ainsworth wins Rising Star award

Dr Rachael Ainsworth, the Institute’s Research Software Community Manager, has been named a Rising Star in the 2020

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Events

Collaborations Workshop 2020 Online

Collaborations Workshop 2020

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) takes place from Tuesday, 31st March to Thursday, 2nd April 2020 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.

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CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019

In affiliation with The Carpentries, The Software Sustainability Institute is organising the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester from 25th to 27th June 2019.
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Collaborations Workshop 2019

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) will take place from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd April 2019 at Loughborough University in the West Park Teaching Hub. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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"We are in a position to fundamentally reorganise the heart of the software. By doing so, this will enable us to maintain the software into the future and facilitate the process of adding new functionality to the software ... SSI can assist in having software usable by others not just for a few months or a year, but rather for a much longer software lifetime"

- Eric Rexstad, Distance