Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) at 2:00 pm MT on October 10th for a short presentation on developer exchange programs, followed by a lightly-moderated discussion.
Inspired by the “visiting scientist” concept, NSF NCAR’s Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling (ACOM) department and NSF Unidata piloted a Developer Exchange Program. From January to July of last year, Kyle Shores (ACOM) and Ward Fisher (Unidata) asynchronously dedicated a portion of their time working on projects across organizations. Kyle spent three months contributing CMake and modern build-and-test infrastructure expertise to the
netCDF project at Unidata, after which Ward reciprocated with three months of expertise in structured software engineering and cross-platform software development to the
Musica project at ACOM. Kyle and Ward's work focused on how their skill sets could benefit the other's projects.
With the successful completion of this pilot program, we want to gauge interest in expanding this program so that any software developer can participate.
