pyOpenSci Software Peer Review Partnerships

pyOpenSci collaborates with organizations that support the scientific community.

Software peer review support for scientific communities

pyOpenSci is launching a prototype collaboration that supports an existing scientific community.

What pyOpenSci provides to existing communities

In addition to the core benefits that pyOpenSci peer review provides, we also provide infrastructure and resources for:

• Peer review of tools in the community’s ecosystem

• Adoption of community specific review standards which will be enforced in addition to our existing review guidelines

• Maintenance support to maintainers that go through our review.

• Support for finding a new package maintainer in case the current one needs to step down.

• A catalog of vetted tools and a community landing page.

Partnership benefits to the broader scientific community

The benefit of communities partnering with us is:

• We have a broad view across all scientific ecosystems which will help us to better identify overlap of package functions.

• We also have broader reach to users of scientific software across the ecosystem.

• Finally a consolidated peer review process will help enforce standardization of scientific Python packaging and best practices across the ecosystem.