Open by Design: Scaling and Sustaining Open at Carnegie Mellon University
Nicky Agate
Associate Dean for Academic Engagement
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries has transformed its open support ecosystem by bringing open access, open data and reproducible workflows, open source software, open education, its open repository, library publishing, and events such as reproducibility hackathons and the new Cracking Open unconference under a unified umbrella: Open at CMU. This strategic consolidation allows the Library to coordinate investments, standardize policies, and scale support across disciplines and the full research lifecycle, rather than operating in silos. This briefing outlines the design and purpose of Open at CMU, highlighting the value of collaboration and the early wins and tensions. It illustrates how a patchwork service model can evolve into sustainable, scalable, and multidisciplinary open social infrastructure.
https://www.library.cmu.edu/services/open-cmu
Networked Innovation: The University of California’s Multi-Campus Model for Open Source Support
Amber Budden
Associate University Librarian, Digital Strategies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tim Dennis
Director of the Data Science Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Brantley
Director of Online Strategy
University of California, Davis
The University of California Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network is an innovative collaboration between faculty and staff across multiple University of California (UC) campuses to enhance UC’s support for open source software (OSS) and hardware. Academic OSPOs provide support to open source maintainers and enthusiasts, while helping their projects abide by best practices and leverage university infrastructure. Taking a multi-campus approach, the UC OPSO Network has leveraged distributed expertise to implement efficient service development, scale service delivery, and grow community across the UC. As the project nears the end of its second year, the briefing will discuss existing and planned work in program development, shared governance, OSS education, and the value of a networked community. It will describe the landscape of UC Open Source from data mining and survey research, showcase select UC OPSO Network services, and invite discussion on future directions for academic and networked OSPOs.
