Culture Change/Rewards/Legal Benjamin Seibold Stephen Watt Sara Billey Neil Calkin Nicolas Limare Bob Robey

Why? Reproducibility and computational mathematical research makes your life better because better science generates collaboration increased citations your reseach group will become more productive new collaborators will emerge greater public impact beyond science and math

How? Authors of code and data should make it as publically available as possible for reproducibility/verifiability, – subject to the rules and regulations of their funding agency or employer reserving rights for the author(s)/owner(s), copyright, patent rights, national security, medical privacy, etc. Some guidelines on publishing and/or disclosing software should be given in a ``How to'' format. – The first step is to put your name on all your publically available products. Include a bibliography citation for each piece of publically available scientific software and data used. You should even cite your own code!

How? Conferences, society, special edition of a journal, etc could give an award based on a software contribution to the community. A small monetary contrubtion from their own funds would be a good extra step but not entirely necessary. Grant proposals should be better written to get funded. Software must be identified as part of the research activity and research infestructure activity.