Planning and executing activities that support and enhance holistic collaboration across the breadth of the CASS community member organizations to sustain and advance our software libraries and tools usage as a curated portfolio

Membership: Open (contact the chair to participate)

Meeting schedule: 4:00 pm-5:00 pm ET, every other Tuesday, including Sep 30, 2025

Chair: Michael A. Heroux (ParaTools)

Charter

Purpose: The CASS Software Ecosystem Working Group focuses on sustaining and improving collaboration across the CASS community and on promoting activities that support the scientific software ecosystem. Our efforts include promoting a curated portfolio of independently developed, interoperable, and interchangeable libraries and tools that enable the development and use of application codes in the pursuit of scientific discovery. We interpret the opportunities broadly to include community development, outreach, best practices in adopting and using the software portfolio, and more.

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Relationships to other working groups: The software ecosystem working group’s efforts often align with those of the Software Integration, Impact Framework, and User-Developer Experience (UDX) working groups.

Expected lifetime: Standing

Expected membership: Open

Reporting expectations: Annually

Charter approval status: Provisional as of 2025-02-11

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