An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is an organizational construct, originally developed in technology companies, with dedicated staff who coordinate and support open source activity. When adapted to a university, an OSPO can offer: 1) training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow local software efforts into healthy open source projects, 2) advice on how best to contribute to existing projects, 3) documentation of the value of open source work and 4) facilitation of relationships with other organizational units like technology transfer, research computing, or the library. This grant supports the establishment of an OSPO at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The planned OSPO will be hosted by Georgia Tech’s Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) with strong collaboration from GT’s Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) and the University Library. The Georgia Tech OSPO will be co-led by Jeffrey Young, Senior Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science and Fang Liu, Senior Research Scientist at PACE. Grant funds will support a host of activities, including the development of community driven community guidelines for open source software projects on campus, support for at least 30 faculty-driven open source software projects, workshops and a series of training events targeting both GT students and faculty, and two undergraduate internship programs, one over the summer and another during the school year. Additional grant funds will support outreach activities outside the GT campus, with a particular focus on faculty and students at HBCUs and Minority Serving Institution in the Atlanta area.