Clare Dillon, an open source advocate, discusses collaborative open-source development at universities. Topics include challenges and benefits of academia-driven approaches, the rise of open research in universities, managing intellectual property, and fostering collaboration for sustainable industry progress.
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Open Source in Academia
Open source in universities has different facets, including education, software usage, and research.
Open research, using open software, drives reproducible science, a key part of open access and data.
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OSPOs' Role
University open source projects often exist as individual efforts, lacking institutional support or consistency.
OSPOs (Open Source Program Offices) aim to formalize and support open source activities within universities, aligning them with IP policies and tech transfer.
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SciPy Example
Large, well-managed projects like SciPy already exist in academia, not just individual basement projects.
OSPOs aren't meant to control these but provide support, connect people, and offer guidance on licensing, especially for newer projects.
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In this episode, host Karsten Hohage discusses open source and InnerSource at universities with our guest Clare Dillon. Clare explains how collaborative, community-driven approaches to open-source development at universities result in greater knowledge sharing, but also what the academia-specific challenges to open approaches are. This episode will help you gain insight into the evolving open source landscape in academia and how it differs from other parts of the OSS ecosystem.
Guest:
Clare Dillon
Clare Dillon is an open source and InnerSource advocate and is currently a researcher with University of Galway and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Alongside working with the emerging global community of academic OSPOs, Clare is a member of Lero’s OSPO team. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, a global non-profit foundation supporting open collaboration methods in corporate software development. In 2021, Clare co-founded Open Ireland Network, a community for those interested in advancing open source at a national level in Ireland. Previously, Clare was a member of the Microsoft Ireland Leadership Team, heading up their Developer Evangelism Group and responsible for Microsoft Ireland’s Academic Outreach Programs for over 10 years. Clare is a qualified coach and frequently speaks on topics relating to open collaboration and the future of work.
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