Open Source Program Office, UC Santa Cruz

Open source research efforts within the University of California face many challenges, including - Educating students to be productive in open source projects - Revealing the value of open source to the UC system - Broadening engagement with industry, government, and foundations Led by @James Davis and @Stephanie Lieggi the OSPO is - Developing a “marketplace” of open source software projects across the UC system and associated national labs that brings mentors, students, sponsors, and open source stakeholders together - Establishing a postdoctoral “incubator fellowship” which will enable fellows to grow communities around their research prototypes - Organizing a yearly undergraduate “Open Source Research Experience”, a UC-wide mentor organization that works with Google Summer of Code and other global outreach efforts and engages with industry, government, and foundation sponsorships - Creating partnerships with innovative open source teaching initiatives inside and outside the UC system