# Report on the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)

## TL;DR

This report summarizes the discussions, presentations, and outcomes of the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science, highlighting community efforts, ideas, and survey results to promote sustainable scientific software practices.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of community initiatives, working groups, and survey insights from WSSSPE4, advancing understanding of sustainable scientific software development.

## Key findings

- Established new mission and vision statements for sustainable software
- Formed working groups with specific objectives and contact points
- Presented survey results on community practices and challenges

## Abstract

This report records and discusses the Fourth Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4). The report includes a description of the keynote presentation of the workshop, the mission and vision statements that were drafted at the workshop and finalized shortly after it, a set of idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and lightning talks, and a panel discussion. The main part of the report covers the set of working groups that formed during the meeting, and for each, discusses the participants, the objective and goal, and how the objective can be reached, along with contact information for readers who may want to join the group. Finally, we present results from a survey of the workshop attendees.