Carlos MaltzahnOne of the missions of the Open Source Program Office, UC Santa Cruz is to explore ways to make visible and quantify the value of #opensource to #ucsc, other #universityofcalifornia campuses, and #research #universities in general. With #EU's new #Cyberresilience #Act leading other #governmentregulations coming to the #softwareindustry, it now becomes even more urgent that universities realize their stake in this. In this blog post I outline an idea of a project that might help. https://ucsc-ospo.github.io/post/20230801/
The urgent need to make the value of open source visible and quantifiable to university leadership | UCSC OSPO
Earlier this year, Frank Wuerthwein, Director of the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) mentioned to me a number: 32,000. That's the estimated number of public GitHub repositories that UC San Diego faculty and students have contributed to.