The question of achieving sustainable funding for research/science software is an active topic of concern. Many of us are familiar with the anecdotal stories of successful (or not) community engagement and funding diversification in open source software projects; in this session, we're opening up the floor to for folks to share success stories, not-quite-success stories and current approaches and concerns in sustainable software across project size and type. We'll start the session with informal lightning talks, getting at the following:
As we consider the activities, through governance, community engagement and funding approaches, we can start to understand what guidance we can provide, for managing projects over a long lifecycle and for addressing requirements in sustainability plans, and where we find gaps to support data-driven feedback in those areas.