This guide walks through the practical first moves for standing up an OSPO at your institution and joining the UC OSPO Network—what to do, in what order, and with what trade-offs. It’s a starting point, not a checklist: if something here doesn’t fit your institution, skip it.
The steps:
What it means to declare yourself an OSPO: what you’re committing to, and who to talk to first.
Web presence: giving people a place on the web to find you.
Mailing list: finding your people and building a durable channel to reach them.
First meetup: bringing your community together in person.
Connecting with local stakeholders: the campus partners worth finding early.
Where to go from here: a rough first-weeks and first-months sequence.