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Alan Williams
"Software is fundamental to research" petition
<p>Dear colleagues,</p><p>The Software Sustainability Institute (<a href="http://www.software.ac.uk">www.software.ac.uk</a>) have started a petition to gather support to recognise the fundamental importance of software to research.<br /><br />This is in response to the ever increasing reliance on well engineered and sustainable software practices, codes and systems to help support world leading research.<br /><br />Please visit the change.org page where you can also sign the petition:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-research-community-we-must-accept-that-software-is-fundamental-to-research-or-we-will-lose-our-ability-to-make-groundbreaking-discoveries">https://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-research-community-we-must-accept-that-software-is-fundamental-to-research-or-we-will-lose-our-ability-to-make-groundbreaking-discoveries</a><br /><br />Please consider supporting this endeavour further by re-tweeting this tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/SoftwareSaved/status/522325490754154497">https://twitter.com/SoftwareSaved/status/522325490754154497</a><br />or by mentioning the petition on your social media account(s) e.g.LinkedIn with a status such as “Software is fundamental to research - if you agree, please show your support: <a href="http://lnkd.in/b2fea5F">http://lnkd.in/b2fea5F</a>".<br /><br />You could also send an email to any groups that you are a member of or directly contact anyone you know who has the ear of the research community and ask them to sign up.<br /><br />Thanks in advance,<br />Aleksandra Nenadic<br />(On behalf of the Software Sustainability Institute)</p><p> </p>
2014-10-16 12:59:29 UTC