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Welcome

Welcome to the CURIOSS Guide to setting up a University Open Source Program Office (OSPO).

CURIOSS is a Community for those working in University and Research Institution OSPOs.

The primary purpose of this guide is to provide a living toolkit that shares best practice and case studies for staff in universities and research institutions who are in the process of setting up an OSPO.

Using and contributing to this Guide

This handbook is not designed to be read from start to finish. Use our search box or dip into the different sections of this toolkit for information that will assist you in your current work.

Our toolkit is broadly organized into different stages of engagement for individuals or institutions seeking to establish an OSPO:

  • What is an academic OSPO? - This section provides background context and provides the fundamental question to be answered for both you and your institution.

  • Getting started - This section is for individuals who are at the very beginning of their OSPO journey.

  • Engaging with stakeholders and decision makers - This section focuses on communicating, engaging and securing support from leadership and key stakeholders in your institution.

  • Focused OSPOs - This section is for OSPOs with a very specific project/goal in mind.

  • Comprehensive OSPOs - This is for anyone looking to develop a wide-reaching comprehensive OSPO that serves many cohorts within their academic community.

  • Resources - More information about resources available.

These stages are not linear, sequential, or hierarchical.

Every institution will adopt different strategies or activities, depending on the level of open source related research, education, student engagement, and interest in translation or dissemination beyond their institution.

Subheading/subsection of 'Using and contributing to this Guide': Contributing to this Guide

This handbook is designed to be an evolving open source and open collaboration resource.

While CURIOSS has developed this guide and continues to steward its development, we encourage and support colleagues working in academic OSPOs to share learning and best practice for the benefit of all.

Please read our contribution guidelines.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have further questions about this guide and your contribution or contact us here on GitHub if you would like to discuss your ideas or suggestions with us.

Acknowledgements

This resource is based on the Guide to setting up a University Open Source Program Office (available by CC BY 4.0). The guide is a resource that provides additional context and detail on the evolution of OSPOs from the corporate to academic world.

We are very grateful to Sayeed Choudhury (Carnegie Mellon University) who was the primar- y author of the original guide.

Our thanks also go to contributors to the original guide as well as everyone from the CURIOSS community who has contributed to the development of this iteration of the handbook including:

  • Aoife Tierney, Trinity College Dublin
  • Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Open Forum Europe
  • Caitlin Carter, HELIOS
  • Chan Voong, Comcast
  • Ciara Flanagan, CURIOSS
  • Clare Dillon, CURIOSS
  • Danese Cooper, InnerSource Commons
  • Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia & InnerSource Commons
  • Daniel Shown, Saint Louis University
  • Georg Link, Bitergia & CHAOSS
  • Jacob Green, OSPO++
  • John Whelan, Trinity College Dublin
  • Kendall Fortney, University of Vermont
  • Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat
  • Michael Nolan, RIT
  • Patrick Healy, Lero
  • Richard Littauer, Open Source Collective
  • Stephanie Lieggi, University of California, Santa Cruz

_Subheading/subsection of "Acknowledgements": License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).