Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability Workshop

This paper summarizes my personal thoughts on how the Fedora Project can serve as a model for the
NSF to follow to sustain the development and widespread use of a diverse ecosystem of scientific
software in an open and transparent manner. The NSF's role would parallel the one which Red Hat
currently plays in the Fedora Project, by making key investments and setting project direction, while
leaving room for community to grow the project in new ways. I've been selected to write this paper
from the Fedora perspective in part because, as a scientific researcher and Fedora contributor, I straddle
both the science and software development communities. In the following discussion I focus on two
aspects of the Fedora project structure I feel are most relevant to the CI Software Sustainability
Workshop goals and NSF's core mission.