Questions for the Workshop

How can build a community of developers?
- What are the career path issues?
- What qualifications do we need to succeed?
- How can we sustain developer careers on grants that fund non-integral personnel lines? (and how can we avoid losing talented developers in the face of this challenge?
- How can we work with industrial contributions to our efforts? Can we define integration points for other (perhaps closed-source) industrial/proprietary components?
How can we build a community of users and/or adopters of our software?
- How can we understand our user’s needs?
- How do we ensure we deliver what users need?
- How can we assure continued existence and support for our user community?
- What role can industry play in adopting our capabilities?
- How can we work with international partners to adopt our software?
- What role can other agencies (and agency projects) play in building a community of users/adopters?
How can we build a community of support organizations
- How can we work with integrating organizations (such as Extreme Digital) to help support our software?
- How can we work with Resource providers to help support our software?
- What role can campus organizations play in supporting our software?

What are the licensing models adopted by our various projects?
Do any of the projects have relationships with larger open source organizations, and thereby benefit from their distribution mechanisms (and potentially from their intellectual property offices, etc)?
- If so, how do you manage distribution of project contributions that are not accepted by the core open source package distribution?
What relationships should we encourage with other possible distribution channels (including adoption by industry?)

How can one succeed in sustaining software (with long development timelines) in a backdrop of relatively short funding timelines?
What role should larger organizations (integrating organizations, open source software foundations, SI2 institutes (not funded yet), etc) play in software sustainability?
What is the proper role of standards, frameworks, etc in positively impacting sustainability?

How can one encourage innovation despite standards, frameworks etc?
What roles do the SSE and SSI elements (our projects!) of SI2 play in software innovation today?
- What roles should SSE and SSI play in fostering innovation today?
What are effective mechanisms for bringing innovative, grass-roots ideas into the software ecosystem?
What are effective ways to embrace disruptive technologies and thrive for doing so?

What are the mechanisms used today to gather and understand user requirements?
- How effective are these mechanisms?
Are there any potential benefits from working with the Extreme Digital requirements gathering/management efforts?

What are the integration models used in our SI2 projects? What are their pros and cons?
What are attractive/effective integration/docking/affiliation points amongst the SI2 projects?
How do we foster integration and affiliation with other software efforts
What are good mechanisms to provide integration points for proprietary software?’
What can we learn on how to push our integration to better levels? Are there high-level interfaces we should be considering? Service interfaces?

How many projects benefit from engineering requirements flowing down from a larger organization (such as eclipse.org, apache.org)?
What are some best practices in build, test, verification, validation of our software?
What tooling is effective in promoting good software engineering practices?

What are our projects doing for project-specific training?
How can we best connect to other training efforts
What constitutes effective connections to curricula for our projects?
How can we succeed in bringing underrepresented groups into our efforts in as many roles as possible?

Given limited funding, resources, etc for each project, how can we best maximize our impact?
What do we need from other CIF elements (yet to be funded)?
What are effective mechanisms to encourage/nurture programs and funded activities that complement and reinforce each other?
How can we encourage exploratory, innovative new projects that help move our community forward and pave the way into previously uncharted software territory?