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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Community |
| 3 | +slug: /community |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +# Community |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +Open Pulse is built in the open by **SDSC** and **EPFL Open Science**, and |
| 9 | +is meant to be reusable by any institution or research programme that |
| 10 | +wants to surface the activity around its open-source software outputs. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## About the project |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Open Pulse automates the discovery and monitoring of open-source software |
| 15 | +produced by a research institution and makes community vitality and |
| 16 | +engagement visible and measurable. Traditional metrics — paper citations, |
| 17 | +GitHub stars — only capture a fraction of open-science impact; many |
| 18 | +valuable projects stay invisible because they are niche, early-stage, or |
| 19 | +low-visibility. Open Pulse aims to map and surface those hidden |
| 20 | +contributions across the full continuum of community engagement. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +## People |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +The roster below tracks the live landing |
| 25 | +([sdsc-ordes.github.io/open-pulse](https://sdsc-ordes.github.io/open-pulse/)). |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +- [Carlos Vivar Rios](https://github.com/caviri) — SDSC Project Lead |
| 28 | +- [Aruni Senaratne](https://fr.linkedin.com/in/aruni-p-senaratne-2a591b1ba) — |
| 29 | + EPFL Open Science Project Lead |
| 30 | +- [Laure Vancauwenberghe](https://github.com/vancauwe) — Senior Data |
| 31 | + Engineer, SDSC |
| 32 | +- [Robin Franken](https://github.com/rmfranken) — Senior Knowledge and |
| 33 | + Data Engineer, SDSC |
| 34 | +- [Eisha Mazhar](https://github.com/EishaMazhar) — UNIGE-SDSC Data |
| 35 | + Science Intern |
| 36 | +- [Oksana Riba](https://ch.linkedin.com/in/oksana80) — Head of ORDES Team |
| 37 | +- [Gilles Dubochet](https://people.epfl.ch/gilles.dubochet?lang=en&cvlang=en) — |
| 38 | + Head of Open Science |
| 39 | +- [Noémie Mazaré](https://ch.linkedin.com/in/noemie-mazare-2b960699) — |
| 40 | + Former EPFL Open Science Project Lead |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +### Collaborations |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +- [EPFL ENAC-IT4R](https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/about/data-at-enac/enac-it4research/) |
| 45 | +- [EPFL C4DT](https://c4dt.epfl.ch/) |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +## Institutions and funding |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +A project by **SDSC** and **EPFL**, funded by **swissuniversities** and |
| 50 | +the **ETH Board**. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +A |
| 53 | +[preliminary GitHub analysis](https://github.com/EPFL-Open-Science/EPFL_OS_Analysis) |
| 54 | +sponsored by EPFL Open Science seeded the work that became Open Pulse. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +## Hosted nodes |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Anyone running an Open Pulse instance can register it as a hosted node |
| 59 | +so the project landing surfaces a discoverable card for it. See |
| 60 | +[Register a node](../operations/register-a-node.md) for the schema and |
| 61 | +the browser-only node-builder form. The first listed node is |
| 62 | +[openpulse.epfl.ch](https://openpulse.epfl.ch), the EPFL instance. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +## Events |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +- **Open Pulse Mini-Hackathon** — November 2025. Hands-on workshop on |
| 67 | + community health, license impact and cross-institutional collaboration |
| 68 | + patterns using Open Pulse data. |
| 69 | +- **Open Pulse Webinar** — January 2026. Introduction to the |
| 70 | + architecture, the data access surfaces (SPARQL, Cypher, REST) and |
| 71 | + research use-cases. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +## Get involved |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +- **Code** — open an issue or PR at |
| 76 | + [sdsc-ordes/open-pulse](https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/open-pulse). |
| 77 | +- **Run your own node** — see |
| 78 | + [Register a node](../operations/register-a-node.md). |
| 79 | +- **Share research** — Jupyter notebooks, papers and case studies built |
| 80 | + on Open Pulse data are welcome. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +## Contact |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +- carlos.vivarrios@epfl.ch (SDSC) |
| 85 | +- aruni.senaratne@epfl.ch (EPFL Open Science) |
| 86 | +- GitHub: [sdsc-ordes/open-pulse](https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/open-pulse) |
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