Our vision: Research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognised and valued as fundamental and vital to research worldwide

ReSA community consultations with people impacts include:

• An African community of practice around research software. ReSA and Talarify co-hosted the first Research Software Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, in May 2023 (report and blog post).
• Establishment of the ReSA Community Leaders Forum (CLF) for decision makers and key influencers in the global research software community.
• Work of ReSA’s Community Managers in Africa and Asia.
• Vive la differénce - research software engineers, a hybrid Lorentz Center workshop on diversity, equity and inclusion, March-May 2022.
• The People Roadmap community consultation facilitated identification and prioritisation of the major issues related to people (or personnel) challenges faced by the research software community, including research software engineers.
• The software landscape analysis taskforce analysed the research software landscape to identify different communities, stakeholders and topics of interest.

ReSA task forces and activities with infrastructure impacts include:

• Leadership of FAIR for Research Software Working Group (FAIR4RS WG) with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and FORCE11, to develop and guide adoption of community-endorsed FAIR principles for research software.
• Coordination of FAIR for Research Software Roadmap to guide strategic planning and investment of implementation of the FAIR principles for research software across the sector. Focus areas includes FAIR for research software metrics.
• How Can Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) Support Research Software? is a ReSA blog post that explores the role of OSPOs in supporting open-source research software in universities, governments, and civic institutions.

ReSA activities with policy impacts include:

• Establishment of Research Software Funders Forum.
• Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability (ADORE.software) aims to raise awareness of the role of funding practice in the sustainability of research software, and to improve that practice.
• The joint ReSA task force and FORCE11 working group on Code Availability is working towards greater alignment on policy and other related actions for code availability.
• Policies in Research Organisations for Research Software (PRO4RS) is a joint working group with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) to help build our collection of institutional policies and consider how to better share these with interested stakeholders.
• Development of research software sharing guidelines for policy makers, funders, publishers and researchers in the Research Data Alliance COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations.
• Supporting the inclusion of software in the OECD Recommendation on Access to Research Data from Public Funding, which is soft law for OECD member states.
• Engagement with the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to include research software elements.
• Analysis of evidence for the importance of research software to support policy discussions and provide information for sharing with key influencers.