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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.
 

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Meet Our Team

Experts from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), central IT services, University of Texas Libraries, and the School of Information.

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Learn about the UT-OSPO Participation Pathway and Open Source community websites.

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Find training opportunities in-person, virtual, or sessions previously recorded.

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See what UT-OSPO has been up to since launching in August 2023.

UT-OSPO News

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A pathway for participation in research open source

Feb. 20, 2024
UT-OSPO core team members James Howison and Jennifer Schopf discuss maturity models and present the UT OSPO Participation Pathway illustrated with case study examples from the NetSage open source project.

UT establishes new hub for open source software collaboration, support

Nov. 7, 2023
With financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, experts from the Texas Advanced Computing Center, central IT services, University of Texas Libraries and the School of Information are collaborating to run this project.

UT Launches Open Source Software Office To Support Researchers

Oct. 25, 2023
To maximize the social and economic impact of open source software in research and education, The University of Texas at Austin has launched the Open Source Program Office, a central hub for open source activity, connection, training and support to enable open source practices as a key part of the University.
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UT-OSPO Events

Event Status
Scheduled
Monday May 13, 2024, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual Training
This workshop will cover the essentials of Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. The content is tailored to domain scientists wanting to work collaboratively on code and add automation to certain parts of their workflows.
Event Status
Scheduled
Monday July 8, 2024 - Friday July 12, 2024, All day
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) - Advanced Computing Building (ACB)
Please join us for TACC’s annual High Performance Computing and Visualization Institute, where we will cover parallel computing and scientific visualization concepts.
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