Open Scientific Software Commons

Description

Proposals by Dan Gezelter:

"* We should create an open central repository location at which authors can release software and documentation.

• Software release should be an integral and funded part of projects.

• Software release should become an integral part of the publication process.

• The barriers to publication of methods and descriptive papers should be lower.

• Programming, statistics and data analysis should be an integral part of the curriculum.

• There should be more opportunities to fund grass-roots software projects of use to the wider community.

• We should develop institutional support for science programs that attract and support talented scientists who generate software for public release."

(http://www.openscience.org/blog/?p=270)

Source

• Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto by Weiner et al. The authors talk about some of the barriers to astronimical software development that are true in all scientific fields.