Academic Working Group

Status: Active
Bottom liner: Richard Littauer
How to get involved:

• Join the #sustainoss-academia channel on the Open Collective Slack.
• Join the Google Group.
• Come to our next meeting, on January 25th at 12:00PM ET.
• Email [email protected] with any questions.

Purpose

• To connect universities and other academic research institutions to collaborate on how to approach and work on open source together.

Goals

• To build an ecosystem map of the space so that we know who is doing relevant work and how to get involved
• To connect people working in universities, both in and outside of OSPOs
• To enable collaboration around shared effort in academia

Guiding questions

• What does it mean for open source to be part of academia?
• What is the role of OSPOs in academia? What does a post-OSPO world look like?
• How do students, researchers, civil society members, and institutions work together effectively for open source?
• What is the wider role around research software engineers, and how can we support them as part of the open source ecosystem?

Reports, documents, and resources

• An ecosystem map is being made to outline the space as a whole.