Update university-of-texas-austin.md

Updated entry based on information about the new Texas-OSPO network.

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 # University of Texas Austin
 
-- *OSPO*: Yes, situated across the university in the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the central IT office, (CIO), the School of Information (iSchool), and the University Libraries.
+- *OSPO*: The UT Austin-OSPO is situated across the university in the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the central IT office, (CIO), the School of Information (iSchool), and the University Libraries.
 - *Personnel*: PI - Dr. Jennifer Schopf (TACC), co-PI and Director - Dr. Angela Newell (CIO), co-PI - Dr. James Howison (iSchool), co-PI - Michael Shensky (Libraries).
 - *Link*: [https://opensource.utexas.edu/](https://opensource.utexas.edu/)
 - *Member of*: [Center for Networked Information](https://www.cni.org/), [CURIOSS](https://curioss.org/), [HELIOS](https://www.heliosopen.org/members)
 
 ## General Description
 
-UT Austin's OSPO is one of the few OSPOs that works with a super computing center. It is also at one of the top-funded academic institutions in the US, with between 2-4 billion in research and grant funding every year. Currently, they are trying to hard-wire the OSPO into the university, which includes training staff and hiring staff-training resources.
+The UT Austin-OSPO engages with researchers in experiencing and expanding their knowledge and use of open source software through events and talks, a Case Study series, immersive training, one-to-one consultations, Hackathons, and more. 
 
-## Core Objectives
+The OSPO hostS a research matching program, connecting researchers with student talent and students with research software engineering experience. 
 
-- Be better at wrangling code for reproducibility purposes.
-- Building out containers, code-wrangling resources, and so on.
-- Develop an ecosystem so people know where to go for help, so that we can advance science and scholarship.
+It also partners with Discovery to Impact to help researchers understand licensing, sharing, and commercialization potential of their software.
 
-## Primary Contacts
+UT Austin-OSPO is one of the few OSPOs that works with a super computing center. 
 
-- Angela Newell, Director and co-PI
-- Jennifer Schopf, PI
+## Core Objectives and Activities
 
-## Other Context
+- Training provision
+- Personalized Consultations
+- Lecture series
+- A help desk network
+- Publishing of best practices
+- Events that enable students, faculty, and staff engage with open source software
 
-The University of Texas Open Source Program Office (UT-OSPO) is the center for open source activity, connection, training, and support to enable open source practices as a key part of the university mission. With financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this project is led by personnel from UT Austin’s central IT services, Libraries, iSchool, and TACC in order to form an umbrella organization that is more than the sum of its pieces.
+## Primary Contacts
 
-The UT-OSPO coordinates a shared open infrastructure for software development, establishing a central hub for open source support that enables the university to leverage and formalize the pre-existing infrastructure on campus, unify and expand the work already being done in this space, create additional opportunities for engagement among faculty and students, and foster interdisciplinary connections across departments and units.
+[ospo@utlists.utexas.edu](mailto:ospo@utlists.utexas.edu)
 
-This infrastructure promotes more reproducible and open research through the development of an ecosystem of researchers engaging and growing open source skills and practice through a pathway of participation. We provide support through:
+## Other Context
 
-- joint training
-- personalized consultations
-- lecture series
-- a help desk network
-- publishing of best practices, and
-- events that help students, faculty, and staff engage with open source software.
+The UT Austin-OSPO coordinates a shared open infrastructure for software development, establishing a hub for open source support that enables the university to leverage and formalize the pre-existing infrastructure on campus, unify and expand the work already being done in this space, create additional opportunities for engagement among faculty and students, and foster interdisciplinary connections across departments and units.
 
-The UT-OSPO is supported by the [Alfred P. Sloan Foundation](http://sloan.org/), grant G-2023-20944.
+The UT Austin-OSPO project was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, along with several other OSPOs in 2022. Building on the success of the UT Austin-OSPO, funding was awarded in 2026 to develop a multi-campus OSPO network in the University of Texas system. The [Texas-OSPO network](https://texas-opensource.org/) will act as a centralized resource to offer open source best practices and to provide training and consultation services across its campuses, while connecting a systemwide community of researchers and developers. More information [here](https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2026/04/30/ut-system-launches-texas-ospo-to-advance-open-source-innovation/).