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Representatives from the UC OSPO Network were among those invited to attend the Second Annual OSPO for Good discusions at the UN Headquarters in New York.

With funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the UCSC OSPO is leading a six campus effort to institutionalize the OSPO approach throughout the UC System.

This program supports the work of postdoctoral scholars aiming to create and grow productive open source contributor communities around innovative research prototypes in order to amplify the impact of their research. To be considered for this program, a postdoctoral scholar should have a research prototype with significant open source software or hardware infrastructure and a UC Santa Cruz-based faculty mentor.

Registration is now open for the 2022 UC Santa Cruz Open Source Symposium: the hybrid event will take place at UC Santa Cruz on September 27-29, 2022 – with the not-to-be-missed Systems Oktoberfest returning on the first day’s evening at the lovely UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn!

The OSPO supports the creation of course work at UCSC that aims to increase the pool of students skilled in working in the context of large open source software communities. Students of these cources find excellent mentors in academia and industry and often become successful open source contributors. The OSPO also hosts guest lecturers on topics specific to open source, including a yearly workshop series on open source.

Save the date for the 2022 UC Santa Cruz Open Source Symposium: the hybrid event will take place at UC Santa Cruz on September 27-29, 2022 – with the not-to-be-missed Systems Oktoberfest returning on the first day’s evening at the lovely UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn!

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community.