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With funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the UCSC OSPO is leading a multi-campus effort to institutionalize the OSPO approach throughout the UC System.

Meet the 17 contributors — 15 GSoC and 2 SoR — joining the 2026 Open Source Research Experience and Summer of Reproducibility programs.

Stephanie Lieggi participated in the Open Forum Academy (OFA) Symposium held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2025.

Full agenda and links to videos! The University of California Open Summit (UC Open) 2025 was held on April 23–24 at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara. This was the first major event organized by the University of California Open Source Program Office (UC OSPO) Network.

We are excited to have once again been selected as a Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2025 Open Source Research Experience (and with it the 2024 Summer of Reproducibility ) will once again benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors.

Overview of expectations and benefits for those interested in mentoring for the 2025 Open Source Research Experience Program

Could your reproducibility-related research project benefit from working with enthusiastic and talented students who are paid to productively contribute to your work this coming Summer? Would you be able to mentor that student no more than 5 hours per week? The Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) Program is the opportunity you are looking for to move your research forward.

Representatives from the UC OSPO Network were among those invited to attend the Second Annual OSPO for Good discusions at the UN Headquarters in New York.

With funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the UCSC OSPO is leading a six campus effort to institutionalize the OSPO approach throughout the UC System.