Paul Sharratt

Graphic titled Cyber Resilience Act Expert Group 4 March 2026 in Brussels A seating placard "Sovereign Tech Agency" is visible, with several people across the room with similar placards in front of them in a meeting room of the European Commission.

In Brussels 🇪🇺 today, Paul Sharratt is participating in the 4th meeting of the #CyberResilienceAct Expert Group, representing @sovereign.tech Agency in discussions on #CRA implementation.

Drawing on our experience in the open source ecosystem, we are contributing expertise to help ensure the CRA 1/3

Imagine what Melville would have made of the slow-moving furniture lift? He’d have milked it for all it was worth.

“It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”

He also invented the Jello shot.

@nathalievanraemdonck.com great talk!

Social media card with my picture and a picture of the London skyline with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background. Text reads: Dawn Foster Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project. Meet the Forkers: Forking Update. Future of Open Source Plenaries, 4th Feb. OpenUK Presents State of Open Con 25. 4-5 February 2025. Sancroft, St. Paul's, London. stateofopencon.com #stateofopencon

It's not too late to register for State of Open Con in London on Feb 4 -5! I'll be on the keynote stage and joining a panel to talk about open source rug pulls, relicensing, and forks. I hope you'll join me! stateofopencon.com/attend-2025/ #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon25

In collaboration with Cailean Osborne, @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, and
@mirkoboehm.bsky.social, @psharratt.bsky.social , STA’s Policy and Research Manager, has co-authored "A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development."
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What’s the Impact of Funding Open Source?

Check out the paper that @psharratt.bsky.social presented at OpenForum Symposium together with Cailean Osborne (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), @geekygirldawn.bsky.social CHAOSS and Mirko Boehm linuxfoundation.org

arxiv.org/abs/2411.06027

Only fair!

A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development Governments are increasingly employing funding for open source software (OSS) development as a policy lever to support the security of software supply chains, digital sovereignty, economic growth, and...

Written with Cailean Osborne (lead), @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, and @mirkoboehm.bsky.social, this paper should be a useful resource for funders, policymakers, and OSS communities alike you can read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06027 (2/2)

I'm beyond chuffed to present our paper on methods to measure the impact of public funding on OSS development at the OFA Symposium at Harvard's Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute this week. (1/2)

(3/3) Second, I'm going to talk about the research I've been doing to look at projects that have relicensed to non-oss licenses that have resulted in forks. You can find the paper, presentation, and data here: github.com/chaoss/wg-da...

Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development Open source software (OSS) has become critical digital infrastructure, powering approximately 96% of codebases and constituting up to 90% of commercial software stacks. Traditionally maintained by vol...

(2/3) First, we're talking about a toolkit for measuring the impact of public funding for OSS projects. This is work I've been doing with @psharratt.bsky.social Cailean Osborne and @mirkoboehm.bsky.social. This NGI post has a good summary: commons.ngi.eu/2024/11/12/m... and has a link to the paper.

I'm super excited to be in Boston this week for OFE's OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium where I get to talk about some of the research I've been doing! symposium.openforumeurope.org (1/3)