There is a huge opportunity for URSSI to produce and disseminate a high quality newsletter to keep the community informed about research software news, notable research papers, critical software, events and job openings. The data science community already benefits from such a newsletter that is maintained by Laura Noren and Brad Stegner and financially supported by the Academic Data Science Alliance.
Just a heads up that this isn't easy. Input to the DSCN comes from 25,000+ news and social media feeds weekly. We might be able to figure out a partner arrangement where URSSI has access to these feeds and can highlight more software specific items? But it's not free, so plan some budget for this.