The Hack Foundation
To continue supporting a set of coordinated activities at the community, network, and policy layers to maximize the impact of open source and open source program offices in universities
The Community for University and Research Institution OSPOs (CURIOSS) provides dedicated network-level resources to facilitate information sharing between Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) in academic and research institutions. Having served a critical role in defining the landscape and onboarding Sloan’s grantees into a larger community of practice in which they can compare ideas and learn from each other, the CURIOSS team is positioning to thoughtfully grow the community well beyond non-Sloan-funded OSPOs, connecting those new entrants to best practices. With this multi-year grant, they will continue to hold space for candid information exchange via monthly community calls and yearly in-person meetings of the active members but will also grow opportunities to engage with external like-minded individuals, departments, and organizations. Finally, they will build on the success of their resource development, supporting individual members who volunteer to lead working groups to create case studies, training materials, and other collaboratively authored documents.