The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the community landscape

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA)’s mission is to bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of research software. ReSA has formed taskforces and one of them revolves around a software landscape analysis aiming to answer the question "How can we identify the different communities and topics of interest for the research software community (e.g., preservation, RSEs, citation, productivity, sustainability)?"

Here we include text describing the work of the taskforce to date (see 2020-03-11-ReSA-landscape.md), as well as plans for the future, and an invitation to readers to contribute to the ReSA list of research software communities. We are a;sp including the current version of the list in a CSV file (see 2020-03-11-ReSA-landscape.csv ), and we welcome contributions on the live spreadsheet that can be found via this link.