Published in Daniel S. Katz's blog

As some may know, the first image of a black hole was announced April 10. This quickly led to a lot of different institutions explaining how they were involved (e.g., my own University of Illinois), as well as a bunch of software projects explaining how their software was used (e.g., Matplotlib). Those of us concerned with open source research software and its sustainability are trying to raise the profile of such software in research.