Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability Workshop

The Open Source Software development model provides a number of benefits for Cyberinfrastructure Software development. We describe how the sustainability for Open Source by using the foundation community model. Foundations are created to address specific issues and provide a common infrastructure, rules, and licenses for individual projects. These foundations provide longevity, standard expectations, and cultural commonality for software projects that we expect to increase cyberinfrastructure sustainability. We elaborate on ways that granting agencies can interact with foundations to develop software and note that some forethought must go into the design and governance of these software foundations.