A project just launched yesterday is Depsy [1], from Impact Story. Depsy tries to give credit to the coders who write scientific software that's used in researc

A project just launched yesterday is Depsy [1], from Impact Story. Depsy tries to give credit to the coders who write scientific software that's used in research. One element at play is that it's not worth it from a reputational standpoint to go through the hard work of getting your code ready to release publicly. It's the same problem we all have with open sourcing hacked together side projects (except even relatively shoddy side projects do help build a programmer's reputation). Depsy wouldn't totally solve that problem, but if there was a good way to boost your reputation by contributing public code then you might see changes in the industry. But like all things in academia, you have to start with reputation and work your way to a solution from there. [1] http://depsy.org/ http://depsy.org/ and the blog post announcing it: http://blog.impactstory.org/introducing-depsy/ http://blog.impactstory.org/introducing-depsy/