The Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement (CORSA)
CORSA is a community of practice dedicated to software sustainability for scientific and research software projects.
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About CORSA
Mission
To promote sustainable practices in the research software community and support the development, maintenance, and long-term viability of research software.
Vision
The Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement (CORSA) serves as a community of practice that enables pathways for open-source scientific software projects to avail themselves of resources for long-term growth, stewardship, advancement, and innovation.
Community
Our community comprises any open source scientific and research software projects interested in sustainablity and pathways to foundations. We are founding members of the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS).
Team
| Greg Watson |
| Addi Thakur Malviya |
| Elaine M. Raybourn |
| Daniel S. Katz |
| Bill Hoffman |
| Dana Robinson |
Key Components
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Pathways to Foundations
Assisting the research software ecosystem to avail the resources and community structure of open source software foundations.
Learn about foundations2
Software Sustainability Metrics
Curating metrics that enable software projects to better understand and improve their sustainability. As part of this we identify software sustainability metrics frameworks and a set of tools that can enable projects to collect and analyze metrics specific to their software.
Foundations
Need help choosing a foundation? Click on the links below to find out more about each foundation and what it takes to apply and join.
Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
The ASF exists to provide software for the public good. It believes in the power of community over code, known as The Apache Way. Thousands of people around the world contribute to ASF open source projects every day.
Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation provides its global community of individuals and organizations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.
High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
HPSF is an open-source, vendor neutral hub for high performance software projects working groups, events, and training.
LF AI & Data Foundation
Its mission is to build and support an open AI community, and drive open source innovation in the AI, ML, DL and Data domains by enabling collaboration, sharing best practices, supporting development efforts, and the creation of new opportunities for all the members of the community.
NumFOCUS
The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote open practices in research, data, and scientific computing by serving as a fiscal sponsor for open source projects and organizing community-driven educational programs.
Open Molecular Software Foundation (OMSF)
Its mission is to advance molecular sciences by building high quality, open source software and sustainable communities for research software development.
Benefits
Are you wondering what the benefits of joining an open source foundation are? Here is a list of some of the things to gain from joining a foundation. (We also have a more detailed list of potential benefits).
Benefits for Projects
- 1. Comprehensive support for sustainable research software development
- 2. Improved software sustainability and maintainability
- 3. Enhanced skills and knowledge through education and training
- 4. Guidance and consultation on sustainability practices
- 5. Access to funding opportunities
Benefits for Funding Entities
- 1. Alignment with sustainable development goals
- 2. Increased impact of funding through collaboration
- 3. Streamlined project selection based on sustainability criteria
- 4. Diverse funding opportunities
- 5. Collaboration and knowledge sharing within the research software community
Open Source Software Funding Opportunities
Foundations are not the only option for supporting your project. Here are some other options that you may want to consider.
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National Institute of Health (NIH)
The NIH has current open funding opportunities for Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science and NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award These are two-year awards with a maximum funding of $300K per award. The RSE award application must also include a letter of support from an NIH-funded project PI.
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US National Science Foundation (NSF)
The NSF has current open funding opportunities for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot, through December 15, 2024. The NSF also has open funding opportunities for Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI), with proposals due December 2, 2024.
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Research Software Alliance (ReSA)
ReSA maintains a list of funding opportunities for research software projects.