Join the Software Publication Special Interest Group (SPSIG)

The AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS) has invited the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) to form a special interest group (SIG) on software publication. The inaugural meeting will be held at the 225th AAS meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday afternoon, 6 January, from 3:45 to 4:45 pm in Room 615 in the Washington State Convention Center. This is immediately after the Licensing Astrophysics Codes: What You Need to Know special session that is from 2:00 to 3:30 pm in that same room.

As issues around software citation came up several times at this month’s Astronomy meeting and has received subsequent discussion online since, it seems fitting for this to be the main topic for the first meeting of the SPSIG.

The meeting is open to anyone who is interested. Additional information will be posted on the ASCL as it becomes available.