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Building a Sustainable Structure for Research Software Engineering Activities
The profile of research software engineering has been greatly enhanced by
developments at institutions around the world to form groups and communities
that can support effective, sustainable development of research software. We
observe, however, that there is still a long way to go to build a clear
understanding about what approaches provide the best support for research
software developers in different contexts, and how such understanding can be
used to suggest more formal structures, models or frameworks that can help to
further support the growth of research software engineering. This paper sets
out some preliminary thoughts and proposes an initial high-level model based on
discussions between the authors around the concept of a set of pillars
representing key activities and processes that form the core structure of a
successful research software engineering offering.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to the 9th International Workshop on
Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE6.1