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 research page. We have one at the ASF!

Just attended the #OpenForumAcademy from OFE (who came over here to Boston this week), and was reminded how thoroughly Europe is working to support digital commons and #OpenSource #sustainability with real policies, funding organizations, and research programs. 😍

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?"

#OpenForumAcademy research around software supply chains make me think of this #Monktoberfest talk, where @agdubs.bsky.social deeply challenges several metaphors around "software supplier" and "#OpenSource Business Model" - key reading for academics too!

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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:
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#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?

Today's Hawaiian shirt, attending @OpenForumAcad here in my hometown Boston! Excited to see all the research topics covering #OpenSource issues in the next two days.

Looking for collaborators on the FOSS Foundation Metadata directory! https://buff.ly/3UPKusC