🎉Congrats to @curioss members, Bill Branan, Megan Forbes and all involved from the #SheridanLibraries on the $750,000 grant from the #AlfredPSloanFoundation to the #JohnsHopkinsUniversity #OSPO!

The funding will be used to create a Research Software Support Network Network to assist and coordinate #researchers' use of #software across the university.

📰https://hub.jhu.edu/2026/01/06/open-source-programs-office-research-software-support-network/

#AcademicOSS #AcademicOSPO #OpenResearch #OpenSourceSoftware #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #RSE #RSEng

The call for proposals for the 2026 GW #OpenSource Conference is now open!

🔗 CFP: https://ospo.gwu.edu/form/2026-propose-a-talk

📅 Dates: March 23–24, 2026

📍 Location: #TheGeorgeWashingtonUniversity, Washington, D.C.

#GWOSCON #AcademicOSPO #AcademicOSS

Congratulations to #UniversitéGrenobleAlpes on the launch of the first #AcademicOSPO in France. 🎉

Thanks so much to #CURIOSS member, #ViolaineLouvet and her colleagues for the very warm welcome at this milestone event.

The dedication to empowering researchers and scientists to leverage #OpenSourceSoftware is inspiring. We're very excited to follow the journey ahead.

🔖 Slides from the event: https://bit.ly/48fhLFp

#AcademicOSS #OpenScience #OSPONetwork

We're delighted to share yet another #CURIOSS pattern with the world.

If you want to build relationships with key stakeholders while amplifying the impact of your #academicOSPO, this is the pattern for you!

📖 https://bit.ly/4jmRdnp

A huge thanks to Allison Kittinger of the #UniversityOfWisconsinMadison #OSPO for the fantastic OSPO Advisory Board pattern.

#academicOSS #openscience #opensourcesoftware #openresearch #OSScommunity

What a great article on 'The Case for #opensource in the Science System of Aotearoa'. So much of the learning here is applicable across the world in academia.

Many thanks to Jonah Duckles, Mik Black, Augustus Ellerm, David Eyers, Megan Gee, Alice Harang and #CURIOSS team member @richlitt for the wonderful insights.

📖 https://zenodo.org/records/15080979

#academicOSPO #academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #OSScommunity

We're looking forward to #OSPOlogyLive this week!

👋Say hello to Clare Dillon, who will be there to talk about the learning from our #CURIOSS members on collaboration and #opensource!

ℹ️ https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-ospology-european-chapter-presents-ospologylive-amsterdam/

📆 March 26th-27th

#academicOSPO #academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #OSScommunity

🍀 Best of luck to #CURIOSS member, David Lippert, and everyone involved in the @gwospo inaugural #GWOSCON next week!

🏆 Prize for the best tagline ever about an #opensource conference goes to #CURIOSS member @lorenaabarba:

"Free to attend, free t-shirt, free lunch, free coffee ☕️ And of course, free and open source software 🚀"

⏲️There's still time to register

ℹ️ https://ospo.gwu.edu/open-source-conference-gw-oscon#program

#academicOSS #academicOSPO #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #OSScommunity