CURIOSS

We're so grateful to @sloanfoundation.bsky.social for their generous support and participation at the Gathering. It was wonderful that @epistemographer.bsky.social and Devora Najjar could make the trip over to the event.

Fostering Innovation through Open Hardware: Opportunities for Academic OSPOs YouTube video by CURIOSS

Thanks so much to Julieta Arancio, PhD from @orca-open.bsky.social for the fascinating @curioss Deep Dive on #OpenHardware.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBx...

#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicOSS #AcademicSky #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware

🎉Congrats to @curiossorg.bsky.social members, Bill Branan, Megan Forbes and all involved from the Sheridan Libraries on the $750,000 grant from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social to the @jhu.edu #OSPO!

📰https://hub.jhu.edu/2026/01/06/open-source-programs-office-research-software-support-network/

We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors.

You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience

A huge thanks to all our
@curiossorg.bsky.social members for their contributions to these patterns and to the Student Ambassadors at
@gwu1821.bsky.social #OSPO who shared learning based on their outreach activities.

CURIOSS Article: Essential Outreach Strategies for Academic OSPOs

@curiossorg.bsky.social members have shared their most effective strategies for conducting outreach to diverse stakeholders.

This article explores how to effectively sequence and combine outreach activites to broaden the reach and maximize impact of #AcademicOSPOs.

📖https://bit.ly/45jJgv1

🎉Congratulations to @curiossorg.bsky.social members,
@collincapano.bsky.social, @willgearty.bsky.social
and everyone in the @syracuseu.bsky.social #OSPO on the 2 year grant from @sloanfoundation.bsky.social!

We're very excited about what's in store.

#AcademicOSS #AcademicOSPO

Congratulations to @curiossorg.bsky.social member, @sayeedc.bsky.social and all at @cmu.edu and @library.cmu.edu on the new grant from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social.

We will all have so much to learn from the work of the ENGIN Software Foundation.

#AcademicOSS #AcademicOSPOs #ENGIN

Open Source Conference GW OSCON | The GW Open Source Program Office | The George Washington University Open Source Conference, OSCON, is hosted by the GW Open Source Program Office.

The call for proposals for the 2026 GW #OpenSource Conference is now open!

🔗 CFP: go.gwu.edu/oscon

📅 Dates: March 23–24, 2026

📍 Location: @gwu1821.bsky.social, Washington, D.C.

#GWOSCON #AcademicOSPO #AcademicOSS

A huge thanks to Mithusa Kajendran and Omar Mohsine of the #UnitedNations for sharing the program's origins and evolution.

Thanks also to Tom Hughes of the @cmu.edu #OSPO for sharing learning on recent Reboot events co-hosted by #CMUAfrica & #TheUpanzinziNetwork in Kigali; and #CMUQatar in Doha.

Reboot the Earth - Social Coding Events YouTube video by CURIOSS

Our November Deep Dive explored #RebootTheEarth - #opensource #hackathons addressing the climate crisis.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZ8...

Current CURIOSS Members Biohub Carnegie Mellon University ETH Zürich WASHINGTON University Georgia Tech JHU Library Lero Mass General Brigham Mississippi State University Oregon State University RIT Saint Louis University St...

🔍 Find out more about our members: curioss.org/about/members/

🎉@curioss has two new members!

A warm welcome to Leigh Phan of @uclalibrary.bsky.social who is also working with the #UCLA #OSPO.

We’re also thrilled that @k8hert.bsky.social of @biohub.org has joined the community.

We look forward to learning more about your work!

#AcademicOSPO #OpenScience

We’re very excited to welcome our new #CURIOSS member, Marvin Barksdale!

We look forward to collaborating with Marvin and learning more about #OpenScience and #OpenSource at @mgbinnovation.bsky.social.

ℹ️ www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/research-...

#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicOSS #AcademicSky

United Nations and Baskin Engineering to host West Coast’s first ‘Reboot the Earth’ hackathon The event will bring together developers to create technological solutions to address the climate crisis.

🎉 @curiossorg.bsky.social members from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO & the #UnitedNations are collaborating on the next #RebootTheEarth #hackathon to tackle wildfire detection, response and impact solutions through #OpenSource collaboration.

📆 Nov 7-8
ℹ️ bit.ly/43Bsrec

#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky

OSPOlogyLive Lyon 🇫🇷 | LF Online Community In-person Event - Join the 7th edition of OSPOlogyLive in Lyon (presentations, project workshops, and roundtable sessions) to help organizations navigate open source management, strategy, and OSPO ope...

We're really looking forward to #OSPOlogyLiveLyon's roundtable on Connecting Academia & Industry through #OpenSource with #CURIOSS member, Jacek Plucinski from #SnTInterdisciplinaryCentreforSecurityReliabilityAndTrust at @uni.lu.

So much to learn!

🗓️ November 5
🎫 bit.ly/4qehSHR

#AcademicSky

CURIOSS Deep Dive with Francesca Vera & Ellianna Abrahams on OpenSource@Stanford's Maintainers & Contributors Roundtable

A massive thanks to Francesca Vera of the #StanfordDataScience #CenterForOpenAndReproducibleScience & Ellianna Abrahams of #StanfordDoerrSchoolofSustainability for the excellent talk on OpenSource@Stanford's Maintainers and Contributors Roundtable.

📺 youtu.be/1tCLyTWbSbE

#AcademicSky #AcademicOSPO

OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development. There w...

Join @ucbids.bsky.social (BIDS) & the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #OSPO to celebrate their new Premier @2i2c_org Membership!

🗓️ Thursday, October 16
🎟️ events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

#UCOSPO #OpenScience #OpenSource

Get involved with the new ReSA & @curiossorg.bsky.social task force on Succession Planning for Research Software. It builds on 10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06484.

📅 First meeting: 20 October

Learn more & sign up: www.researchsoft.org/tf-successio...

Congratulations to @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social on the launch of the first #AcademicOSPO in France. 🎉

Thanks so much to #CURIOSS member, #ViolaineLouvet & colleagues for the very warm welcome at this milestone event.

We're very excited to follow the journey ahead.

🔖 Event slides: bit.ly/48fhLFp

Slide Title for September CURIOSS Deep Dive: Opening Skills & Solutions - Experiential leaning at Saint Louis University Speaker: Daniel Shown, Open Source with SLU

Our September Deep Dive with Daniel Shown of @slu-official.bsky.social is a must watch❗

Open Source with SLU's Opening Skills & Solutions program has demonstrated success with $500K+ in development value delivered and 80+ professionals trained annually.

📺https://bit.ly/4o3Ox0Z

#AcademicOSPO #OSS

We're very excited to welcome two new members, John Walters and Austin Check of @msstate.bsky.social Office of Technology Management to the #CURIOSS community!

We're looking forward to future collaboration with the #MississippiStateUniversity #OSPO.

ℹ️ www.otm.msstate.edu/ospo

#AcademicSky

Next week's #RebootTheEarth hosted by @cmuq.bsky.social demonstrates that when universities embrace #OpenSource, students become global problem-solvers.

We're inspired by @curiossorg.bsky.social members from the @cmu.edu #AcademicOSPO who are facilitating global change.

Register: bit.ly/422rDym

🙏 Thanks to our members who identified our patterns: @david-lippert.bsky.social & @labarba.bsky.social of @gwu1821.bsky.social, @ramereth.bsky.social, @oregonstate.edu, @sayeedc.bsky.social & Tom Hughes of @cmu.edu,
@slieggi.bsky.social, @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and Zach Chandler, @stanford.edu.

Integrating Open Source into Research Proposals Successful practices from Academic OSPOs

In our latest article, we share learning from our members on the value of building #OpenSource practices into funding proposals.

🔹Funders value transparent, reproducible research.
🔹#AcademicOSPO expertise creates the opportunity to mulitple research outcomes.

📖 bit.ly/4ndYJE8

#AcademicSky

What a great event from CURIOSS member, @gatech-ospo.bsky.social, and #IBM.

#IBMTechXchange was a great success!

🔗 Slides and tutorials from the day: ospo.cc.gatech.edu/ibm-dev-day

#AcademicSky #AcademicOSPOs #AcademicOSS #GTComputing #GTOSPO #OpenScience #OpenSource

📢 Calling all #AcademicOSPOs & #PublicSectorOSPOs!

⏰ Today is the deadline for completing the OSPO-RADAR Project survey: bit.ly/41GNICo

ℹ️ More info: www.softwareheritage.org/2025/04/0

#AcademicSky #OpenSource #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

We're delighted to welcome @kirstiejane.bsky.social of the
@ucbids.bsky.social to the #CURIOSS community!

We're looking forward to learning more about the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #OSPO.

ℹ️ Learn about UC Berkeley OSPO: ospo-berkeley-edu.netlify.app

#AcademicSky #opensource

University Publishing In A Digital Age - Ithaka S+R Scholars have a vast range of opportunities to distribute their work, from setting up web pages or blogs, to posting articles to working paper websites or

Great to see this new report from @ithakasr.bsky.social on 12 of our members' #academicOSPOs.

The findings share insights on common strategies, challenges, and operating models.

📖 sr.ithaka.org/publications...

#AcademicSky #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openscience

A wonderful article about the #RebootTheEarth #hackathon and the partnership between @cmu.edu #OSPO and #TheUpanziNetworkatCMUAfrica.

We're looking forward to hearing more about future #opensource collaborations!

📖https://bit.ly/4lXVgc6

#academicOSS #AcademicSky #openscience #openresearch