Research Software Alliance proposal

This proposal was successfully submitted to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in late 2022. This proposal will support the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) to advance its mission to bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem. ReSA’s focus aligns with the vision of CZI’s Open Science program of the universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs. The objectives of this proposal are to:

1. Extend ReSA’s research across the international research software community (including more geographical breadth) to achieve the joint vision that research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognised and valued as fundamental and vital to research worldwide.
2. Facilitate the ongoing establishment of new ReSA task forces to increase collaboration on community priorities.
3. Grow ReSA’s organisational members to support ReSA’s long-term sustainability planning.

ReSA supports collective impact by providing the social infrastructure needed to foster the cross-organisational communication, alignment, and collaboration required to achieve sectoral change in the research software sector. There are a number of ways in which ReSA contributes to research software challenges where international and/or cross-disciplinary consensus would be valuable, ranging from software interoperability to the changing skill sets needed by research software developers