Red Hat Research Quarterly

Stephanie Lieggi

About the author

Stephanie Lieggi is the Executive Director at CROSS and the University of California, Santa Cruz OSPO, supporting the work of university-based open source projects and communities.

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Building a university OSPO: Bolstering academic research through open source

In industry, companies establish open source program offices (OSPOs) to mitigate potential legal risks, improve engineering practices, and enable financial benefits. OSPOs are also proving to be important in research university settings, although—not surprisingly—for different reasons. The primary aim of an academic OSPO is to advance the institution’s goals, which typically include education, research, and serving […]

How the university OSPO approach is taking shape at the University of California and beyond

Universities are looking at open source program offices to make the most of open source research on campus. UC Santa Cruz has an update on their progress. In 2022, the University of California, Santa Cruz became one of the first universities to build an academic open source program office (OSPO) on their campus (see “Building […]