Saint Louis University

• OSPO: Yes, in the CS Department.

• Personnel: Daniel Shown, Kate Holdener

• Link: https://oss-slu.github.io/

• Member of: CURIOSS, HELIOS, US-RSE

General Description

Open Source with SLU was established to help SLU researchers with their custom software needs and to give students practical software development experience

Core Objectives

• To provide ‘real-world’ software development experiences for students.

• To develop and maintain software tools for research.

• To support and serve open scholarship and open science throughout the university and wider community.

Primary Contacts

• General information email

• Daniel Shown, Program Director

• Kate Holdener, Ph.D.

Other context

The program is funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and employs Computer Science graduate students to prototype, design, and deliver open-source software to help SLU researchers and their collaborators worldwide. It was set up in 2022, in the Computer Science department. There is an acting research software engineer service bureau, and one full-time CS faculty, one full-time director, with grad students as tech leads and student workers.