UC OSPO Network: Talks, Workshops, and Documents

Slides, handouts, and background documents from UC OSPO Network talks and workshops.

Looking for something else? Upcoming meetups and workshops are on the Events page, and templates and how-to guides are on the Resources page.

Talks and workshops

Newest first. The first link on each one opens the slides.

UCLA Library brown-bag: Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure

Upcoming · draft · Tim Dennis, Leigh Phan

Slides · Source

UC Carpentries: Making Research Software Citable & Discoverable

Sep 23, 2026 · workshop · Tim Dennis, Leigh Phan, Karla Padilla, Reid Otsuji, Laura Langdon

Intro slides · Metadata slides · Lesson · Source

IASSIST 2026: Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure

Jun 2026 · conference talk · Tim Dennis

Slides · Full deck · Handout · Bibliography · Source · DOI

Book

UC Open Source: A System History

How UC research software went from BSD Unix to Jupyter, Ceph, Spark, RISC-V, and beyond, and what that history means for supporting open source today.

Read the book · Source

Working documents

Accessibility audits, meeting agendas, and planning drafts, mostly for people working on the network. They live on GitHub: reports · drafts