NEWSLETTER - NOV 2024
CORSA is the Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement, a member of the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS). Our goal is to promote sustainable practices in the research software community and support the development, maintenance, and long-term viability of research software.
Welcome to the inaugural CORSA newsletter! Each month, we'll provide information about what CORSA has been up to, list our upcoming events, and highlight funding opportunities.
CORSA will be hosting a BoF at SC24, in Atlanta, Georgia:
Making Sense of the Chaos: Best Practices for HPC Software Sustainability Strategies and Metrics
Tuesday, 19 November, 5:15 - 6:45 PM
"This BoF brings together participants to build a community and share information and ideas around exploring the challenges in sustainability of HPC software, focusing on 1) defining and measuring research software sustainability metrics and 2) enhancing research software stewardship practices. Participants will discuss software project community health, engineering practices, and funding stability. The session aims to foster collaboration, share insights, and develop actionable strategies for the long-term viability of HPC software projects."
Please stop by if you'll be attending SC this year!
Funding Amount: Up to $300k over 2 years
Deadline: December 4, 2024
Summary:
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to enhance the sustainability and impact of research software tools by enabling the use of best practices and design principles in software development and by leveraging continuing advances in computing. This NOFO is also expected to facilitate the creation of vibrant partnerships between developers and users of software and tools, and to promote FAIR practices for research software to maximize research value.
Funding Amount: Up to $300k over 3 years
Deadline: December 4, 2024
Summary:
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to provide salary support for exceptional Research Software Engineers (RSEs) that contribute their skills to the development and dissemination of biomedical, behavioral or health related software, tools, and algorithms as well as to the training of prospective users of these tools.
Funding Amount: $10M (Elements) + $20M (Frameworks) + $4M (Sustainability)
Deadline: December 2, 2024
Summary:
The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.
The CSSI program anticipates three classes of awards:
Funding Amount: Up to $1.5M over 2 years
Deadline: January 14, 2025 (preliminary), April 22, 2025 (full)
Summary:
Vulnerabilities in an open-source product and/or its continuous development, integration and deployment infrastructure can potentially be exploited to attack any user (human, organization, and/or another product/entity) of the product. To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of open-source ecosystems (OSEs), NSF is launching the Safety, Security, and Privacy for Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program. This program solicits proposals from OSEs, including those not originally funded by NSF’s Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, to address significant safety, security, and/or privacy vulnerabilities, both technical (e.g., vulnerabilities in code and side-channels) and socio-technical (e.g., supply chain, insider threats, and social engineering).
Funding Amount: 30-50 awards from a pool of $28M
Deadline: January 14, 2025 (Phase I)
Summary:
The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-source products, including software, hardware, models, specifications, programming languages, or data platforms that catalyze further innovation. In some cases, an open-source product that shows potential for wide adoption forms the basis for a self-sustaining open-source ecosystem (OSE) that comprises a leadership team; a managing organization with a well-defined governance structure and distributed development model; a cohesive community of external intellectual content developers; and a broad base of users across academia, industry, and/or government. The overarching vision of POSE is that proactive and intentional formation of managing organizations will ensure broader and more diverse adoption of open-source products; increased coordination of external intellectual content developer contributions; and a more focused route to technologies with broad societal impact. Toward this end, the POSE program supports the formation of new OSE managing organizations based on an existing open-source product or class of products, whereby each organization is responsible for the creation and management of processes and infrastructure needed for the efficient and secure development and maintenance of an OSE.
Funding Amount: Up to $600k over 3 years
Deadline: Small Projects: Anytime
Summary:
The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, as well as advanced cyberinfrastructure, through the following core programs:
Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF):
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS):
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS):
Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC):
Proposers are invited to submit proposals in several project classes, which are defined as follows:
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—DARPA—operates on the principle that generating big rewards requires taking big risks.
But how does the Agency determine what risks are worth taking? George H. Heilmeier, the director of DARPA from 1975-1977, crafted a set of questions known as the "Heilmeier Catechism" to help Agency officials think through and evaluate proposed research programs. The same set of criteria can be used to create better and more competitive proposals."
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/ordc/Resources/heilmeier-catechism.php
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The following are links to some training resources offered by foundations:
Do you think the FAIR principles for Research Software (https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00068) are working? 2+ years after publishing, with over 500 people involved, we’re keen to understand if the FAIR principles have been useful & usable. If not, we’re asking the community what needs changing to make them work.
Please take the survey: https://forms.gle/sRhRQD4gWBQWzcGS7
Webinars about the review process:
The Foundations Forum is an open forum for projects to meet and share experiences with joining or membership of an open-source software foundation (e.g. NumFOCUS, High Performance Software Foundation, etc.). It meets once a month.
https://corsa.center/meetings/foundations-wg.html
The Metrics Working Group aims to facilitate a coordinated effort to curate and develop metrics for measuring software sustainability from the perspective of scientific and research software. It meets every other week.
https://corsa.center/meetings/metrics-wg.html
These meetings are open to everyone. Contact information can be found in the links for each workshop.
If you have any questions or need assistance with your application, feel free to reach out:
📧 info@corsa.center
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