Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, July 4, 2018
All Day
Categories
The EMMC-CSA is organising a ‘invitation-only’ Software Owner community meeting
on “Sustainable economic framework for materials modelling software”.
Date
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Venue
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Granta Design Limited Rustat House, 62 Clifton Road Cambridge, CB1 7EG United Kingdom |
Report
Background
Successful software for materials modelling has an expected lifetime of many decades. This long-term nature requires a sound legal and business foundation: the ownership of software must be clearly established and the license models need to be carefully thought through to ensure a sustainable development and maintenance of the software and impactful exploitation by both academic and industrial end-users. Solutions need to be considered for different forms of software including individual software components, comprehensive codes and software platforms. Various business models should be analysed ranging from those built on services around open source software to proprietary solutions.
Meeting Format
Given the potentially sensitive nature, the so-called Chatham House Rules[1] will apply.
Two sessions are planned:
- Business models and value creation
- Sustainable software development, maintenance and life cycle management
Each session will include a number of short presentations from SWOs, planned so that different types of business model etc will be covered and discussed.
Aim of the discussion is to further probe pros and cons and make recommendations about good practice for each type. The aim is not to give any value judgement but rather to provide more insights and recommendations that will help to support future sustainable software deployment, speeding up the transition from academia to industry, ensuring long term sustainability and growth of the software sector.
[1] Chatham House rules state that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
Draft Agenda
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival/Coffee
10:00 – 10:20 Welcome, Introductions, Ground Rules
10:20 – 10:40 The market for materials modelling software and services: Overview (G. Goldbeck)
10:40 – 11:00 Discussion on markets and trends
11:00 – 11:50 Impulse talks on: Experiences with different business models, including
- License/distribution type
- Proprietary, owned by company
- Closed source, distributed by company
- Open Source, developed by company
- Open Source, not developed but distributed by company
- Software type:
- Individual codes/components
- User Interfaces
- Integrated environments
- Platforms
- Revenue types
- Software license sales
- Maintenance
- Software license subscriptions
- Software as a Service
- Services: Software installation/implementation/customization
Address the question of where value is created (and hence people pay)
11:50 – 12:40 Discussion on business models and value creation
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:20 Impulse talks on: Experience with sustainable development, maintenance and life cycle management of software
14:20 – 15:20 Discussion on sustainability, maintenance and product life cycle management
15:20 – 15:40 Break
15:40 – 16:20 Formulating summary and recommendations
16:20 – 16:30 Conclusions and Close of meeting
Event Funding
This event has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project from the E
uropean Union’s Horizon 2020
Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 723867