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Coworking/Office Hours

We’d love to see you at our coworking sessions! These are casual, drop-in-if-feel-like it sessions where you can:

UCSB Open Source Lounge

When: Thursdays at 2:30-4:30pm Pacific
Where: Hybrid. In person at the UCSB Library, Room 1411 (in the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library), and on Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

The Open Source Lounge, hosted by UCSB but open to all UC affiliates, is a co-working space for working on your open source goals in a supportive, motivating environment. Bring your laptop and some work to do, such as documentation cleanup, a feature you’ve been meaning to write, or learning exercises to hone your coding skills. Light refreshments are served for in-person attendees.

Upcoming Events

UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open Source AI Models

When: Thursday, October 15 2026, 3-5pm Pacific (in person from 3pm, online from 3:30pm)
Where: Hybrid. In person at the Gateway Building, Social Kitchen, Room 1420 at UC Berkeley, and online (sign up for the Zoom link)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Berkeley’s OSPO, BIDS, and D-Lab host a monthly fireside chat and Q&A, followed by community gathering time with drinks and snacks. October’s topic is open source AI: sovereign implementations, data privacy, researcher and user surveillance, and building a more diverse AI ecosystem.

Register here

CruzCon: Open Source for Research & Innovation

When: Thursday, October 22 2026, 10am-5pm Pacific
Where: Seymour Marine Discovery Center, UC Santa Cruz
Who: UC researchers, faculty, students, campus leadership, and industry partners

CruzCon is a day exploring open source in research and innovation, hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office and the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) together with CITRIS.

The draft program runs two panels, “Open Source Ecosystems as a Pathway to University Innovation” and “Campus Infrastructure Supporting Open Source and Impact”, alongside a fireside chat, a keynote, lunch and demos, and a closing discussion on institutionalizing open source infrastructure. Attendees are also invited to the CROSS Annual Oktoberfest, held immediately after the conference.

Full schedule on the UCSC OSPO website.

Register here

Reboot the Earth Hackathon @ Davis

When: Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24 2026
Where: Peter J. Shields Library, UC Davis campus
Who: Students from any university or college; no coding experience required (each team needs at least one UC Davis student)

UC Davis joins the United Nations’ Reboot the Earth hackathon series, in which student teams spend two days building open source solutions to real-world climate and sustainability challenges set by researchers and practitioners, with support from mentors and a judging round on day two. It’s free to take part.

This year’s challenges:

The winning team is invited to UN Open Source Week in New York!

Registration closes October 15 2026.

Register here

Alignment Group (open governance meeting)

When: Wednesday, October 28 2026 at 11am Pacific / 18:00 UTC; fourth Wednesday of every month
Where: Zoom
Who: Working-group delegates, and anyone interested in how the Network is run

The Alignment Group brings together the chairs and delegates of the Network’s Working Groups to coordinate cross-cutting work and keep the groups aligned as the Network’s governance takes shape. Working-group delegates are asked to attend, and everyone in the UC open source community (and beyond!) is welcome to join and listen in.

ORB Community Call

When: Tuesday, November 3 2026, 1pm-2pm Pacific / 21:00-22:00 UTC; first Tuesday of every month
Where: Zoom. Direct Zoom link or add to your calendar: Google Calendar
Who: Anyone

Join the Open Repository Browser (ORB) working group for our regular community call. We’ll make engineering decisions regarding the ORB toolkit, an open-source AI/ML-based pipeline for discovering academic open source projects.

All-Campus Virtual Meetup: Open source and your tech transfer office

When: Thursday, November 5 2026 at 10am Pacific / 18:00 UTC
Where: Zoom (registration required)
Who: Anyone—students, staff, faculty, researchers, and folks outside UC all welcome!

Thinking about open-sourcing your research software but unsure how to approach your Tech Transfer Office (TTO)? Steven Tudor, Director of the Technology Transfer Office at UC Davis, and Mike Cohen, Director of Innovation Ecosystem Development in UC Berkeley’s TTO, join us to talk about what their offices actually do when a researcher wants to release code as open source, the worries researchers bring to them most often, and what information the TTO needs to help researchers make decisions. We’ll also talk about how your campus OSPO can serve as a first stop on the way to tech transfer, so you can feel informed and confident when you meet with the TTO.

Guest speakers:

Register here

UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Meetup: November

When: Thursday, November 19 2026, 3-5:00pm Pacific (in person from 3pm, online from 3:30pm)
Where: Hybrid. In person at the Gateway Building, Social Kitchen, Room 1420 at UC Berkeley, and online (sign up for the Zoom link)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Berkeley’s OSPO, BIDS, and D-Lab host a monthly fireside chat and Q&A, followed by community gathering time with drinks and snacks. November’s guest and topic are still to be announced; see the full series for updates.

Register here

All-Campus Virtual Meetup: December

When: Thursday, December 3 2026 at 10am Pacific / 18:00 UTC
Where: Zoom (registration required)
Who: Anyone—students, staff, faculty, researchers, and folks outside UC all welcome!

Speakers and host campus TBA!

Register here

Past Events

How to Contribute to Open Source Software

When: Thursday, October 8 2026, 11am-1pm Pacific / 2-4pm Eastern / 18:00-20:00 UTC
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone—no experience required, all institutional affiliations welcome!

Representatives from the Syracuse University and University of California Open Source Program Offices guided participants through the processes needed to begin contributing to and publishing open source software: where to start, how open source communities work and the norms they follow, and the skills needed along the way. This was the second session in a CURIOSS pilot series that began with September’s Git & GitHub workshop.

UCLA Open Source Meetup: Keeping the World on Time

When: Tuesday, October 6 2026, 12-1pm Pacific / 19:00-20:00 UTC
Where: Hybrid. In person at the Charles E. Young Research Library, Data Science Center, UCLA, and online
Who: Anyone at UCLA or across the UC system

A lunch-hour conversation with Paul Eggert, UCLA Computer Science Teaching Professor, primary coordinator of the public-domain Time Zone Database (TZDB) and a longtime GNU contributor. Eggert introduced this widely used but largely invisible infrastructure, which underpins timestamps on documents and photographs, preserves historical time-zone information that software depends on, and has to respond when governments change their clocks with little warning. He discussed the technical, legal, political and collaborative challenges of sustaining it, followed by an extended Q&A.

October 2026 All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Thursday, October 1 2026 at 10am Pacific / 17:00 UTC
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone—students, staff, faculty, researchers, and folks outside UC all welcome!

UC Berkeley’s OSPO at BIDS hosted October’s meetup, with François Lanusse (CNRS) and Liam Parker (UC Berkeley) introducing Lightcone Research. Their open schema, ASTRA, records the scientific decisions behind a result and the evidence for each one, in a compact file an agent can maintain and a person can read. Liam showed an agent reproducing the DESI DR1 BAO cosmology analysis from the raw catalogs, with every output provenance-verified and every analysis choice traced to a cited source.

Guest speakers:

You can watch the recording or see the slides if you missed it!

September 2026 Alignment Group

When: Wednesday, September 23 2026 at 11am Pacific / 18:00 UTC
Where: Zoom
Who: Working-group delegates, and anyone interested in how the Network is run

The Alignment Group brings together the chairs and delegates of the Network’s Working Groups to coordinate cross-cutting work and keep the groups aligned as the Network’s governance takes shape. It meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month, and everyone in the UC open source community (and beyond!) is welcome to join and listen in.

UC Carpentries: Core Elements of Citable and Discoverable Research Software

When: Wednesday, September 23 2026, 8:30am-12:30pm Pacific / 15:30-19:30 UTC
Where: Zoom
Who: Researchers and the professionals who support them; no prior setup needed

Participants learned practical steps for making research software citable, discoverable, and reusable. Working in the browser with a GitHub repository, they added an open source license, created a CITATION.cff file, made a versioned release with a DOI, and improved their project’s documentation and metadata.

Co-presented by the UC OSPO Network and UC Carpentries, and hosted by UCLA. It was one session in a wider UC Carpentries series that ran September 8-23.

UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Meetup: scikit-image with Stéfan van der Walt

When: Thursday, September 17 2026, 3-5:30pm Pacific
Where: Hybrid. In person at the Gateway Building, Social Kitchen, Room 1420 at UC Berkeley, and online
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Berkeley’s OSPO, BIDS, and D-Lab hosted their monthly fireside chat and Q&A, followed by community gathering time with drinks and snacks. September’s guest was Stéfan van der Walt, Senior Research Data Scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, founder of scikit-image, co-founder of Scientific Python, and co-author of Elegant SciPy: The Art of Scientific Python. He talked about scikit-image v2, a major overhaul with a cleaner and more intuitive API, and about the team and community who sustain the project.

Git & GitHub Workshop

When: Tuesday, September 15 2026, 10am-12pm Pacific
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone—no programming or Git experience required, all institutional affiliations welcome!

Representatives from the Syracuse University and University of California Open Source Program Offices introduced participants to Git, a piece of software and a collaboration mindset for managing conflicting contributions, saving and accessing historical checkpoints, and handling experimentation. Participants made their first Git contributions, collaborated with each other using GitHub, and discussed Git’s place in the world of AI coding. This was the first session in a CURIOSS pilot series.

September 2026 All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Thursday, September 3 2026 at 10am
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

UC Santa Cruz hosted this month’s meetup on mentorship as community building. We heard about the Open Source Research Experience (OSRE), the Google Summer of Code-modelled summer program UC Santa Cruz runs as umbrella org for the whole UC system, so any UC project can take part without standing up its own GSoC org, along with a mentor’s view of what makes the model work. We also heard about Contributor Catalyst, an eight-week cohort program for students from HBCUs, now in its fourth year, built on layered mentorship and ending with participants opening issues and filing pull requests upstream in public.

Guest speakers:

You can watch the recording if you missed it!

August 2026 All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Thursday, August 6 2026 at 10am
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

UC Santa Barbara hosted this month’s meetup, with a focus on how AI is changing open source workflows—where AI tools are showing up across the open source lifecycle (writing and reviewing code, documentation, maintenance, and community work), what’s actually useful, where the friction is, and what it means for maintainers and researchers working in the open.

Guest speakers:

You can watch the recording if you missed it!

UC Open 2026

When: Wednesday-Thursday, April 22-23 2026
Where: UC Berkeley
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

View the full UC Open Source Summit 2026 page for session recordings, speaker bios, and more.

March 2026 All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Wednesday, March 18 2026 12pm
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us for the winter edition of our all-campus open source meetups! We’ll start with a fireside chat with Matthias Köppe of UCD, maintainer of SageMath, followed by a very casual open discussion about whatever folks have on their minds about open source.

Open Source Meetup @ Davis

When: Thursday, February 19 2026 12:30-2pm
Where: Shields Library, room 360 (DataLab)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

Join us for a bring-your-own-lunch open source meetup—an informal hangout for maintainers, contributors, and anyone curious about open source. There’s no set topic on purpose: bring a project, a question, a “how do I start?” moment, or just yourself. We’ll do quick intros, then break into whatever discussions people actually want.

Learn more about the Open Source Program Office at UC Davis.

Making Research Software Citable and Discoverable: Practical FAIR4RS Wins

When: Wednesday, February 11 2026 12:00-12:50pm
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

This workshop is part of UC Love Data Week 2026, and is intended for researchers, graduate students, and librarians who work with research code and want practical ways to make software easier to find, cite, and reuse.

Speakers: Tim Dennis (UCLA) - Laura Langdon (UC OSPO Network) - Reid Otsuji (UC San Diego) - Leigh Phan (UCLA)

UCSB Open Source Lounge

When: Wednesday, February 4 2026 12pm-2pm
Where: UCSB Library, Room 1411 (in the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library) AND Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

The Open Source Lounge, hosted by UCSB but open to all UC affiliates, is a co-working group where attendees can work on their open source goals. Bring your laptop and some work to do such as documentation cleanup, a feature to work on, or learning exercises to hone your coding skills.

Dec UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange

When: Thursday, December 4 2025 10:00-11:00am
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development!

At our monthly live online discussion and knowledge exchanges, we can harness the collective intelligence and creativity of our community to meaningfully transform how research is conducted, produced, and disseminated.

Facilitator: Jarrod Millman, Executive Director, Berkeley OSPO
Facilitator: Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

Dec UCSB Open Source Meetup

When: Wednesday, December 3 2025 at noon
Where: UCSB Library, Room 1312 (1st Floor Mountain Side, adjacent to the Learning Commons)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!) Bring: Your lunch 😋

Topic: Our favorite lesser-known open source tools

Want to discover new open source tools and share your favorites? Join us for this discussion where we’ll celebrate lesser-known open source tools. Your tool doesn’t have to be obscure, but try to avoid the ultra-famous ones. No presentation required, but come prepared to tell us about a tool you love!

November UC Berkeley Meetup

This event is in person and online and all are welcome. (You don’t have to work at UC Berkeley to attend.)

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Monica Bobra as our guest speaker at the UC Berkeley Open Source Program Office monthly meetup on 20 November 2025 at 3:30pm.

Dr Bobra serves as the Principal Data Scientist at the California Office of Data and Innovation, as appointed by Governor Newson. In conversation with UC Berkeley OSPO executive director Jarrod Millman, she will be sharing the open approach to data science taken by the State of California.

Monica leads data science teams with partner departments across the state to develop novel approaches to improving safety, sustainability, and decision-making. She also helps academic institutions effectively translate advances in research to improvements in operations across the State of California.

Join us at the AI Futures Lab - a partnership between Berkeley Institute for Data Science and UC Investments - to explore how we can harness the collective intelligence and creativity of the global open source ecosystem to meaningfully transform how knowledge is created and shared.

Fall All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Thursday, November 13, 2025 at noon
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us for the Fall edition of the UC open source contributors & maintainers virtual meetup, bringing together our vibrant open source community across all UC campuses! Whether you’re a seasoned maintainer or just starting your open source journey, this collaborative space is for learning, sharing, and connecting with fellow UC community members. This time we’ll explore project funding strategies—from grants and sponsorships to institutional support—but as always, we’ll follow the conversation wherever it naturally leads. Come exchange insights, discuss challenges and successes, discover new projects, and build meaningful connections with peers from across the UC system.

All roles—students, faculty, staff, researchers—and experience levels are welcome, as we believe the best learning happens when diverse perspectives come together.

Nov UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange

When: Thursday, November 6 2025 10:00-11:00am
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development!

At our monthly live online discussion and knowledge exchanges, we can harness the collective intelligence and creativity of our community to meaningfully transform how research is conducted, produced, and disseminated.

Facilitator: Jarrod Millman, Executive Director, Berkeley OSPO
Facilitator: Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

UC Davis Open Source Symposium

When: Friday, October 24 2025 8:45am-4:30pm
Where: Peter J. Shields Library Room 167, 100 N Quad, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Open Source Symposium, a free, one-day event at UC Davis focused on advancing open source software development for research, is happening on October 24 in Shields Library, Room 167.

Held during Open Access Week, this event is sponsored by the UC Davis Open Source Program Office (OSPO) with support from the UC Davis Library and DataLab to broaden participation in open source.

This event is an opportunity for all members of the university community—including graduate students, postdocs, faculty, researchers, and undergraduates—to connect and build practical skills. Whether you are new to open source or looking to expand your contributions, this symposium will provide actionable ways to engage.

The day-long program features:

Join us to learn how to leverage and contribute to open source software, and to attract contributors to your OS research projects.

Writing Clearer, Better-Structured Code (all-campus)

When: Wednesday, Oct 22 12:00–2:00 PM
Where: Zoom
Who: This workshop is designed for researchers, graduate students, and early-career Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who already have some experience with Python, Git, and the shell

Topics covered:

Getting Started with Better Research Software (all-campus)

When: Tuesday, October 21 2025 12:00-2:00pm
Where: Zoom
Who: This workshop is designed for researchers, graduate students, and early-career Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who already have some experience with Python, Git, and the shell

Topics covered:

UC Berkeley Monthly Meetup

When: Thursday, October 16 2025 3:30-5:00pm
Where: 2120 University Ave, 7th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development. There will be a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time!

Facilitator: Jarrod Millman, Executive Director, Berkeley OSPO
Facilitator: Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

Contact: Lilli Wessling Hart

Get started contributing to OSS (All-Campus)

When: Thursday, October 9th 2025 at noon
Where: Zoom (Join the meeting)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!) who’s interesting in learning how to contribute to OSS

Hacktoberfest is a global October celebration that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects—and this session is here to help you jump in with confidence! If you’ve been wanting to contribute to open source but don’t know where to start, join us for a UC-wide supportive workshop where we’ll cover the basics together. We’ll share strategies for identifying beginner-friendly projects, understanding community norms, and navigating the contribution process, then stick around to help you explore potential projects and take your first steps. No experience required; just bring your curiosity and any questions you have about getting involved in the open source community!

UCSD Open Source Meetup

When: Thursday, October 2nd 2025 at noon
Where: Geisel Meeting Room (Geisel Library, 1st floor East)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source? Join us as we discuss the OSPO and what it can do for you.

In partnership with UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCSD OSPO is hosting a casual meetup on October 2nd. We’ll provide a space where experienced and aspiring open source contributors can learn from one another through casual discussions and talks from guest speakers. This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring cookies!

Oct UC Berkeley OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange

When: Thursday, October 2 2025 10:00-11:00am
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development!

At our monthly live online discussion and knowledge exchanges, we can harness the collective intelligence and creativity of our community to meaningfully transform how research is conducted, produced, and disseminated.

Facilitator: Jarrod Millman, Executive Director, Berkeley OSPO
Facilitator: Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

Oct UCSB Open Source Meetup

When: Wednesday, October 1 2025 at noon
Where: UCSB Library, Room 1312 (1st Floor Mountain Side, adjacent to the Learning Commons.)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

This month, we’ll be joined by a panel of special guests: Trissalyn Nelson (Geography), Rich Wolski (Computer Science), and Chrissy Rissmeyer (Library) will tell us about their experiences building healthy, inclusive open source communities.

We’ll be back in room 1312 in the UCSB Library.

UCLA Open Source Meetup

When: Tuesday, September 30 2025 at noon
Where: Charles E. Young Research Library, West Classroom 23167
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source?

In partnership with UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCLA OSPO is hosting a casual meetup on September 30th. We’ll provide a space where experienced and aspiring open source contributors can learn from one another through casual discussions and talks from guest speakers. This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring cookies!

UC Berkeley “What Can Your OSPO Do for You?”

When: Thursday, September 18 2025 3:30-5:00pm
Where: 2120 University Ave, 7th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)\

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development. There will be a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time!

This month, meet the Berkeley OSPO Executive Director Jarrod Millman and BIDS Executive Director Kirstie Whitaker – together, we can harness the collective intelligence and creativity of our community to meaningfully transform how research is conducted, produced, and disseminated. Drinks and snacks provided!

Speaker: Jarrod Millman, Executive Director, Berkeley OSPO
Speaker: Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)\

Contact: Lilli Wessling Hart

Hacktoberfest Prep Session (All-Campus)

When: Thursday, September 11 2025 at noon
Where: Zoom (Join the meeting)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!) who maintains an open source project\

Hacktoberfest is a global October celebration that encourages people to contribute to open source projects, making it a perfect time to welcome new contributors to your project! Join us for a UC-wide coworking session designed specifically for open source maintainers who want to make their projects more contributor-friendly. We’ll provide templates and examples for essential docs like README files, CONTRIBUTING guides, and issue templates, plus we’ll be available to answer questions and review your repositories. Whether you need help crafting welcoming documentation or just want dedicated time to tackle those important-but-often-postponed admin tasks, this session will help you prepare your project to shine during Hacktoberfest and beyond!

Sep UCSB Open Source Meetup

When: Wednesday, September 3 2025 at noon
Where: Zoom: Join the meeting
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

This month, we’ll be joined by a special guest: Pasquale Ferrari, Senior Licensing Officer at UCSB’s Office of Technology & Industry Alliances (TIA). Pasquale will tell us about how TIA supports open source projects at UCSB, and you can ask questions about licensing and pathways for open source development. Note that this meetup will be held over Zoom.

Aug UCSB Open Source Meetup

When: Wednesday, August 6 2025 at noon
Where: UCSB Library, Room 1312 (1st Floor Mountain Side, adjacent to the Learning Commons)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

At this month’s UCSB Open Source Meetup, we’ll be sharing “origin stories” of how we got into open source, and discussing the challenges and successes we’ve encountered along the way. There are plenty of getting started guides online, but there’s nothing like hearing from real colleagues first-hand.

This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring cookies!

All-Campus Virtual Meetup

When: Thursday, July 10, 2025 at noon
Where: Zoom link
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Join us for the inaugural UC open source contributors & maintainers virtual meetup, bringing together the vibrant open source community across all UC campuses! Whether you’re a seasoned maintainer with years of experience or just thinking about starting your open source journey, this collaborative space is designed for learning, sharing, and connecting with fellow UC community members who are passionate about open source software. We’ll exchange insights, discuss challenges and successes, discover new projects, and build meaningful connections with peers from across the UC system. This is the first of three annual meetups where we’ll celebrate the incredible open source work happening throughout our universities and support each other in growing as contributors and maintainers.

All roles—students, faculty, staff, researchers—and experience levels are welcome, as we believe the best learning happens when diverse perspectives come together.

Jun UCSB Open Source Meetup

When: Wednesday, Jun 4, 2025 at noon
Where: UCSB Library, Room 1411 (in the Sara Miller McCune Arts library)
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)
Bring: Your lunch 😋

Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source?

In partnership with UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCSB Open Source Programs Team is starting a casual recurring meetup on June 4th. We’ll provide a space where experienced and aspiring open source contributors can learn from one another through casual discussions and talks from guest speakers. This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring cookies!

Collaborate and Grow: Open Source for Research Coders (Davis)

When: Thursday, May 29 2025 at 3pm
Where: Peter J. Shields Library (room 360) at UC Davis
Who: Anyone who writes code for research!

Are you a researcher or student who writes scripts, handles data, or maintains specialized tools? Without realizing it, you might already be part of the open source community! This casual one-hour gathering is designed specifically for scientists, researchers, and academics who code as part of their work but might not necessarily identify as “programmers.”

Whether you’re a biologist analyzing genomic data, a sociologist processing survey results, or a geologist mapping terrain features, this meetup will show you how your coding skills connect to the broader open source ecosystem. We’ll explore how the tools you already use (and perhaps contribute to) fit into the open source landscape, and discuss simple ways to benefit from and participate in this collaborative community.

Join us for refreshments and conversation with others who, like you, use computation to advance their research. No technical expertise required—just register below and bring your curiosity!

OS SlugFest (Santa Cruz)

When: Tuesday, May 27 2025 at 5pm
Where: Baskin Courtyard and E2-180 at UCSC
Who: Anyone (including students and staff!)

Calling all UCSC Open Source Software enthusiasts! The Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) are excited to be holding our second annual Open Source SlugFest (OSSlugFest).

Anyone from the UCSC and Santa Cruz open source community is invited! We ask you to register below so we know how many to expect. Food and beverages will be provided.

Do you want do a lightning talk about what you are working on? We have set aside time to hear from those already working on Open Source projects on campus – let us know if you want a slot when you register.

We will have representatives from the UCSC OSPO (and other offices) to talk with you about how we can support and promote your open source endeavors. We will end the evening with a raffle for those in attendance!

More information and updated event schedule can be found on the UCSC OSPO website.

UC Open 4 (2025)

View the full UC Open 2025 conference page for session recordings, speaker bios, and more.

References
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