2022-06-09 –, OW2con main virtual room
Open source is eating the world and academic institutions cannot escape from that. With several American universities joining the ever growing list of institutions explicitly promoting open source through offices dedicated to fostering Open Work, we will share some initial experiences, lessons learned, and some insights into where we think open source in academia is headed. In this short talk, we will tell a story about how “Open” in academia goes far beyond source code, and the way faculty create, distribute, and collaborate on their work varies greatly. This talk will only cover the tip of the iceberg of Open Work in academia but will provide attendees an introduction to this great world that we are discovering ourselves.
This talk will focus on giving an introduction to a lot of concepts developed within the private sector (specifically the operations of Open Source Program Offices or OSPOs) and talk about what we learned from applying this to academic institutions. We will distill these learnings into insights that then might be able to be utilized by private sector organizations.
In the meantime, you can learn more about our work via our website https://openr.it/ where we showcase things such as our design playbook for helping faculty create and grow open projects, our recommended best practices and various programs that we are working on.
Mike Nolan a software engineer and open source community strategy consultant currently helping run Open@RIT as the Assistant Director. I also act as the director for the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists.
With work experience stemming from tech companies such as Amazon and GIPHY to large humanitarian organizations such as the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, I seek to develop better ways to create technology that benefits humanity.