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GW's Open Source Programs Office
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Identify & catalogue GW open source community #1

Open david-lippert-gwu opened 9 months ago

david-lippert-gwu commented 9 months ago

identify and catalogue the open source community at GW

david-lippert-gwu commented 8 months ago

From the Guide to set up a University OSPO.

There are multiple individuals or offices within a university who can offer a high-level or initial answer to the state of open source software at a university including: ● Vice President (or Vice Provost) for Research or equivalent positions ● Technology Transfer Office ● Office of the CIO or Computing Services ● Department of Computer Science or Department of Information Systems (or more broadly, the School or Division that encompasses it) ● Library ● Research centers or high-performance computing facilities ● Student groups (particularly those that organize hackathons)

It is also worthwhile to conduct a search using as many variants of the university’s name (e.g., Carnegie Mellon and CMU) within GitHub, which might identify additional points of contact.

david-lippert-gwu commented 8 months ago
labarba commented 8 months ago
  1. GW Technology Commercialization Office
  2. Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIE)

We need to make contacts there, but they are unlikely to be informed about OSS.

david-lippert commented 5 months ago

This is ongoing, but we created a new project registry to allow GW community members to register their OSS projects to enable us to discover and display the projects on the OSPO website: https://ospo.gwu.edu/project-registry

I'm going to create a new specific project registry issue to place the specifics regarding completing the webform, the registration process, and the display.

david-lippert commented 3 days ago

Plan to fork and customize the following tool shared by the UT Austin OSPO. FYI, UT Austin OSPO's position on opt-in is still that it is a concern to scrape and email potential open source project owners, but because OSPOs are offering so many services and because most maintainers are open source advocates, reaching out has not been viewed negatively. But we should be careful with inundating people with emails and ensure it is easy to opt out or unsubscribe. https://github.com/UT-OSPO/institutional-innovation-grapher

david-lippert commented 17 hours ago

Forked the UT OSPO code and got some promising preliminary results. Over 6000 projects and close to 400 users associated with GW though a set of github API queries. I have work to do, but this is a good start.