The Software Working Group (SWG) is an effort internal to the NCSA Software directorate to:

Increase internal awareness of development activities across the Software Directorate (SD) supported projects and NCSA wide activities
Amplify efforts across projects by leveraging existing projects and experience
Recommend strategic direction of the Software directorate regarding future investments/activities/types of projects to pursue
Create short lived Focus Groups (FG)
Manage Round Tables around specific topics
Recommend best practices

Membership

One member from each Software Directorate team
- Each SD team can decide when their representative in SWG changes
- Members update the SWG on team projects/activities for all their team members (not just the projects they are staffed on)
- Members attend working group meetings, share updates and report back to their respective software directorate team what they have learned
- If a member cannot attend a particular meeting, it is their responsibility to find a replacement from their team for that meeting
One chair

Internal Meetings

Topics for discussion:

Technology adopted or being developed by individual projects
Potential interesting new technologies to be adopted
Standard software architectures (potentially generating reference architectures)
Software deployment strategies and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, etc)
Specific software development practices adopted by individual projects
New projects and efforts starting up

Every other week at 10 am on Tuesdays (specific announcements go out over bytes and pieces and #announcements on slack)
Everyone is welcome to attend
Format is open conversation around a topic with personal experience
One moderator to lead the conversation

Created as needed when shared interest arises around a specific topic
Anyone from the Center can be part of a SIG based on expertise and interest
Meet once every week or two to share updates, or just chat on Slack
Low pressure - choose your own topics and goals
Members of the SIG choose:
- A lead in charge of organizing team and reporting back to the SWG
- No set time frame is required - large topics can have long-term groups
- No concrete deliverables required - goals or milestones are encouraged

Help organize hands on sessions on specific topic to bring together experts and new adopters to learn a new framework, programming language, tool together.
Sessions are on as needed basis.
A couple of hours sessions are recommended. More might be too much. Less might be too short.
Can be one or more session per topic.

Help share knowledge across NCSA. This will allow you to present your conference paper, or your work to a larger audience.
Every other month (odd month) on the first Tuesday at noon.
Lunch will be provided (speakers choice).