Stephen Jacobs

There is a growing interest in university-based open source software, and broader questions of Open Work. as reflected by many trends in research, education, and translation including the development of university open source programs offices (OSPOs) and discussions related to other research outputs under the framework of open work. Richard Littauer from SustainOSS will facilitate this session seeking input from those working on or interested in university open source. What topics related to university open source are of most interest? What gaps exist, particularly relating to barriers for advancing university open source? What resources needs to be developed? What other questions are relevant? The feedback from this session will help re-launch the SustainOSS Academia working group.

Other people: Richard Littauer

Those of us pursuing or performing Open Work in Industry, Academia and Government face common challenges around getting support for, incetinization of and credit around Open Work practices. The problems of “Invisible Work” needing to demonstrate ROI and KPI for non software engineering efforts, getting evaluated for “invisible work.” Etc. Though there are shared issues across these sectors, the language and processes are often different, leading to difficulty in identifying and applying best practices from one sector to the other. This session will discuss the common challenges and related best practices in each sector and seek common ground in addressing them

This panel will offer a well-rounded discussion on various ways to incorporate free software into university curricula and scholarly projects, as well as ways to promote further engagement between scholars and the free software community. The panel will explore how free software fits into both computer science programs, such as the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minors at RIT, and into digital humanities projects. What are the barriers to free software in academia? How does terminology cloud the issue? How do we promote the ethics of "free as in freedom" when the draw to many academics is "free as in beer"? How do free software and free culture interact in digital humanities and humanitarian projects?

Other people: Morgan Lemmer-Webber Tom Callaway D. Joe Anderson