SciencePAD is an initiative coordinated by EMI in collaboration with ILL, EMBL-EBI, Ex Machina with the participation of other projects and companies developing or using software for scientific applications.

The initiative was started informally in September 2011 with a first round of discussions among representatives of various projects and other interested parties. In December 2011 a Steering Commitee (SC) has been formed to formally discuss the mandate, scope, functions, funding models, governance structure and membership rules. The SC will present the outcome of the initial discussion to a larger community of software developers and users in February 2012 at a workshop to be organized at CERN on open source software for scientific research.

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