promotion and support of HEP software

[ynikitenko]

There are several organisations supporting free software, while it is not clear which ones are dedicated to physics / scientific data analysis. I would like to exchange knowledge on:

• promoting free HEP (Python) software. How authors of a new software tool could inform the community about that. Initial publication, workshops, etc.
• obtaining funding for software projects. Do there exist grants/scholarships for valuable tools or organisations which facilitate their development (for example, as an employee).

[matthewfeickert]

• How authors of a new software tool could inform the community about that. Initial publication, workshops, etc.

@ynikitenko I think one thing that I would recommend from personal experience is submitting software to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) which focuses much more on the software and has only a very short paper (less than 5 pages) associated with the software that then gets a publication and DOI. Having a formal data product (the paper) to tell people to cite (and ideally having a CITATION.cff file in the repo to go along with it) helps make it very explicit what you want cited and how. This has worked well for pyhf.

Disclosure: I'm an editor for JOSS.