Summer 2025 Update

Summer 2025 Update

What a Season!

We launched the year with two immersions, a series of Reproducible Research trainings, peppered the semester with trainings on R, version control, managing research code, open source GIS, a crash courses in open scholarship, a workshop on new federal regulations, a grand Research Compute Summit, and engagements at varied faculty and grad student collaborations, impact, and innovation events. We closed out the semester with an excellent talk by Claus Wilke relating his observations of what he has learned from contributing to major open source projects.

New Resources

We invite you to participate in our new student research matching service. The OSPO is partnering with the Office of Career and Life Design to match students with research projects that involve open source software. The goal of the matching program is to empower students with meaningful, real-world development experience while accelerating research through sustainable and open collaboration. Students from across the University and from groups like the Longhorn Developers will be matched for consideration to participate in research projects. Projects provide students financial support and mentoring for participation. If you have a project that you would like to submit for consideration, please submit that project to Angela Newell.

Consultations are in full swing. If you or your research team are looking for a one-one consultation for your open source software project, you can reach us by email at ospo@utlists.utexas.edu or visit https://bit.ly/ut-ospo-consultation to select a time to meet with us.

What resources would you like to see the UT-OSPO offer? Please let our Director, Angela Newell know!

What We’ve Been Up To

Over the summer, we met with Research OSPOs across the country to discuss expanding capacity with open source software in academia and spent time sharing our open source software in research experience with a global audience at the United Nations Open Source Week. We offered our inaugural Train the Trainers event, which you will see again this fall. We met with Research Administrators across campus to introduce the OSPO and understand how we can help additional researchers access OSPO resources. We just returned from an excellent seminar Convening on Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise, produced by the Apereo Foundation and Ithaka S+R, funded by the National Science Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Coming Up!

We will kick off the fall with the following events:

  • Immersive Python Workshop, August 12-15, 2025, PCL Scholars Lab
  • New Faculty Launch, August 20, 7:30-10 a.m., Alumni Center Exhibit Hall
  • Data and Donuts, Fall sessions will be posted soon.
  • Geo Hackathon, October 10-12, PCL Scholars Lab. Registration announcement coming soon!
  • Quant Night, in partnership with the Office of Career and Life Design, 5:00-7:00 p.m., October 30, Texas Science and History Museum. Students can register now!
  • And more!

Thank you for working with us to build a stronger, smarter open source ecosystem. We look forward to seeing you soon!

The OSPO Team