This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the
Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
(WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series
promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and
best practices, careers, learning, and credit. This article discusses the Code
of Conduct, idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and
lightning talks presented during the workshop. The main part of the article
discusses the speed-blogging groups that formed during the meeting, along with
the outputs of those sessions