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| An Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) is a body within an organisation to look after their open source strategy and operations. OSPOs has been widely adopted in the commercial world[^OSPO-commerce], governmental institutions and world organisations[^OSPO-public]. More recently, various academic and research institutions have also found the value of having OSPOs. Focusing on the latest, we can find research centres such as [CERN][ospo-cern] or [Space Telescope Science Institute][ospo-stsci] and universities like [Johns Hopkins][ospo-jhu], [University of California][ospo-uc] and [Carnegie Mellon University][ospo-cmu] to name a few from US, whereas in Europe we've got universities like [Trinity College Dublin][ospo-tcd] in Ireland, [University of Luxembourg][ospo-snt] and [ETH Zurich][ospo-eth] in Switzerland. | ||
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| [^OSPO-commerce]: The two biggest OSPO networks in industry are: [OSPO Alliance][ospo-allience] supported by the [Eclipse Foundation][eclipse] and [TODO Group][ospo-todogrp] supported by the [Linux Foundation][LF] |
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| ## Why does UCL need an OSPO? / What benefits does it give? | ||
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| Open Source is a fundamental component of our research and university infrastructure. However, this is usually forgotten and considered as a given. We do not know how much we depend on it. Equally, we know very little about the social, research, and economic impact that the open source code generated by the UCL has. Contributing to Open Source projects requires more than technical knowledge, it is tied to social and economic aspects, and an OSPO helps to make it more accessible. An OSPO in UCL will benefit the following areas: |
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(I think "we know very little about the ... impact" is what we want to say here)
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