Welcome to The University of Texas Open Source Program Office (UT-OSPO)
The vision of the UT-OSPO is to engage faculty and students in an open source participation pathway.
The UT-OSPO is generously funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
(Grant number grant number: G-2023-20944)
Meet Our Team
Experts from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), central IT services, University of Texas Libraries, and the School of Information.
Discover Resources
Learn about the UT-OSPO Participation Pathway and Open Source community websites.
Get Training
Find training opportunities in-person, virtual, or sessions previously recorded.
Review Reports
See what UT-OSPO has been up to since launching in August 2023.
UT-OSPO Events
Event Status
Scheduled
Friday September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Virtual Training
This virtual workshop will introduce attendees to basic concepts and techniques for working with text as data, focusing on how open source software can be used to implement computational approaches for understanding and examining text. A practical, hands-on exercise using Python will follow the introductory talk.
Event Status
Scheduled
Friday October 10, 2025, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Recurs:
Daily, 9am - 5pm for 3 times
Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL) Scholars Lab
The Jackson School of Geosciences Hackathon is an annual event that convenes students, researchers, and faculty members to hone their skills in computer programming and the geosciences, all for the fun of friendly competition (and monetary prizes).