Past Events

Learn how NetSage, an open-source network measurement, analysis, and visualization service, helps researchers and institutions understand traffic patterns, identify bottlenecks, and optimize performance across high-speed research and education networks. This is a hybrid event.

At this event, we will take the opportunity to introduce you to the UT Open Source Program Office, our resources and people, and our packed event schedule. We will discuss getting up and running with open source software, including the use of important supporting technical solutions like Git and GitHub. This session will also offer insights and connections for how to build a strategy and management plan for open source projects that will meet grant and funder requirements.

Join us for a virtual informational session about federal funding agency policy changes that have gone into effect or will be implemented in 2025 that may impact your research.

As a new faculty member, it can be overwhelming when navigating our large university community. The New Faculty Launch—hosted by Faculty Development—is a year-long program designed to help familiarize you with university resources to advance your careers as scholars, teachers, and mentors.

The UT Libraries and UT Open Source Program Office are excited to announce an Immersive Python Workshop coming up on August 12-15, 2025! This in-person workshop is aimed at UT students, faculty, and researchers.

The Association of Research Administrators at The University of Texas at Austin serves its members and advances the research mission at the University by providing opportunities for networking, professional development, information exchange, and informal discussion in pursuit of improving research administration. The Association of Research Administrators at UT Austin, a grass-roots organization, is not a primary source of official information nor does the association establish policy. Rather, ARA provides a channel to information and a forum for informal discussion.

Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.

The Building Open Source Capacity in Academia CURIOSS Workshop will facilitate connections between CURIOSS members, explore corporate/academic collaboration theme, best practices to promote Open Source as part of Open Science/Open Research initiatives and OSS discovery at Universities. It will be held during the United Nations Open Source Week. This event is organized by CURIOSS and the University of Vermont and open to CURIOSS Members and organizations/institutions that support open source in academia. Funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

UN Open Source Week 2025 facilitates global dialogue and collaboration on open source, digital public infrastructure (DPI), and the development of innovative solutions to global challenges. Since its inception in 2023, the event has captured significant international attention, reflecting strong demand for a UN-led forum on open source and digital cooperation.

Join us for a virtual informational session about federal funding agency policy changes going into effect in 2025 that may impact your research. We will cover the expanded sharing requirements for outputs of federally funded research, describe where researchers can find more information, and highlight the resources that are available at UT Austin to assist with compliance. We will discuss the commonalities and differences among individual research funding agency plans, and we’ll be able to answer questions you have about specific funders.