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The OSPO UC Santa Cruz are pleased to be hosting the third Summer Seminar Series for our affiliated researchers, students and industry partners facilitated by Dr. Dirk Riehle, Professor of Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. The seminar entitled Open Source for Business consists of 12 lectures addressing everything you need to understand open source and to develop a corporate open source strategy.

Is your organization looking to better utilize open source and want to support projects that directly benefit your work? Does your company want to strengthen the talent pipeline able to work on technologies essential to your organization’s success?

We are very excited to have been selected as a 2023 Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2023 Open Source Research Experience and with it the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility will therefore benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors.

The Robot Operating System (now ROS 2) is an open source middleware for operating robots. Similarly to Linux, Kubernetes, or OpenStack, ROS 2 has grown to be so complex that building ROS 2 from scratch has become impossible for most users. Join us for the presentation by Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle (Univ. Erlangen / Bayave GmbH) on Wednesday, January 11 at 1:30pm PT, UC Santa Cruz, Engineering-2, Room 506 (hybrid event).

We will give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor. Join us on December 13 at 10am Pacific Time. Registration is now open. We will be asking a number of our mentors the OSRE 2022 program to join in the discussion to share their experiences and we will also highlight the changes in the 2023 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

Incubator Fellow and PolyPhy Project Lead Oskar Elek and Stephanie Lieggi, executive director for OSPO and the Center for Research in Open Source Software, Hakimshafaei will develop an interface built off of an existing web-based AI generator that will allow the end user to control the system’s behavior to generate interesting and unique patterns.

OSRE'22 had 12 successful summer projects, including 10 supported by GSoC, double the number of last year. Other sponsors included Toshiba America Electronic Components, Baskin Engineering, and CITRIS.

Join us in creating new communities, partnerships, and collaborations in amplifying research impact with open source.