UC OSPO Network — Coordination Documents
Presentations, reports, and project history from the UC OSPO Network.
Presentations
IASSIST 2026 — Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure
A 10-minute talk making the case that open source software is research infrastructure, presenting the UC OSPO Network as a model for institutional support, and connecting OSPO work to data professionals’ existing roles.
- Author: Tim Dennis (ORCID)
- Slides · shortlink: tinyurl.com/iassist2026
- Full deck (19 slides)
- Handout · shortlink: tinyurl.com/iassist2026-handout
- Annotated bibliography
- Source (GitHub)
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20498692
UCLA Library Brown-bag: Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure (Upcoming)
An internal brown-bag adaptation for the UCLA Library Teaching, Learning & Research department. Reframes the talk for a library audience: software is where research data was a decade ago, and scholarly communication is the library’s seat at the OSPO table.
- Status: Upcoming, draft. Shared for collaboration; not yet archived to Zenodo.
- Authors: Tim Dennis (ORCID), Leigh Phan (ORCID)
- Slides
- Source (GitHub)
History Book
UC Open Source: A System History
A Quarto book tracing UC research software from BSD Unix through Jupyter, Ceph, Spark, RISC-V, and beyond. Covers the origin stories, the pattern of open release, and what it means for institutional support today.
Reports & Drafts
Working documents, accessibility audits, meeting notes, and planning drafts are in the reports/ and drafts/ directories on GitHub.