St. Louis University
To engage masters and undergraduate students in open source research software projects as part of the St. Louis University Open Source Program Office
This grant supports Ekaterina Holdener at St. Louis University who is establishing an Open-Source Software Center (OSS Center) at the university that will, among other activities, launch a program to facilitate graduate students and undergraduate student participation in faculty-driven open-source research software projects. Over the grant period, Holdener anticipates that the new program will allow at least 120 student contributors to support some 30 faculty-driven software projects. Additional funds will pay for a host of other activities designed to support the new OSS Center, including the development of organizational infrastructure and systems, requirements and design checklists, the publication of a playbook of OSS Center-related activities and programs on building open-source software capacity in university settings; and the training of an estimated 16 graduate student in computer science, data science, and software engineering. Funds will provide financial support for Holdener, 16 graduate student employees, and a full-time program director.