A big question at #OpenForumAcademy: how can researchers around #OpenSource better work with projects - and how can communities potentially benefit from research papers?

The first step is building a university OSPO, or a foundation-level research portal. We've started one at the ASF, let me know your questions!

https://buff.ly/48VzvE6

Research Information Portal

Home page of The Apache Software Foundation

Research/Practicioner collaboration idea for @OpenForumEurope folks at #OpenForumAcademy:
Are there any simple ways we can create schemas/data for either personal affiliation affirmations (i.e. I am [email protected], etc.) or #OpenSource project-based data (like Foundation they're at, rough governance structure, community processes)?
Because I'd like to see these kinds of distinctions included in the great research on our communities.

#Research on #OpenSource - where's the connection point around researchers studying FOSS communities to get plugged into?

What's the adademics equivalent of the Foundations List to make connections?

#OpenForumAcademy
https://flossfoundations.org/

FLOSS Foundations

FLOSS Foundations
At #OpenForumAcademy, our keynote by Katharina Meyer of DIIF includes so many key quotes on how to do #OpenSource #funding right, with my favorite:
"How can open source be supported financially without disrupting the peer production culture and incentives of communities building it?"

Key meta-question at the #OpenForumAcademy discussing research around #OpenSource/ open science/data/government:

How does your FOSS products research project take into account non-GitHub projects? How much of the open source world isn't on GitHub at all?

Konstantin Vinogradov at #OpenForumAcademy asking one really simple (if hard!) question:

How can we use the university endowment model to sustainably fund OSS maintenance?

Just one of many aspects to the #OpenSource #Sustainability question:
https://buff.ly/3Z4DHy4

Aspects of Sustainability

Various groups, people, policies, tools, etc. that affect sustainability.

Shane Curcuru
#OpenForumAcademy hitting (one of) the nails around #funding in #OpenSource #Sustainability. The Open@RIT program did amazing work taking academic grants to use them to holistically help FOSS projects. But when they asked for more funding, grantors simply say "we don't do grants that way".
#OpenForumAcademy starts off with both a great overview of the history of #OpenSource, both socially/policy wise, but includes some deep technical cuts. When was the last time you used cvs for source control?