Grants

George Washington University

To support the institutionalization of an Open Source Programs Office at George Washington University

  • Amount $750,392
  • City Washington, DC
  • Investigator Geneva Henry
  • Year 2025
  • Program Technology
  • Sub-program Open Source in Science

Since 2020 the Sloan Foundation has been supporting the establishment of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within universities as a strategy to institutionalize support for open source software in the research enterprise. In 2023, Sloan provided two years of funding to six institutions, including George Washington University, to establish OSPOs, to launch a set of pilot activities to determine the most promising strategies for supporting open source software development on their respective campuses, and to develop a clear vision for a long-term institutional support ecosystem for open source. This grant provides an additional two years of support to the George Washington University OSPO, co-lead by an administrator (Geneva Henry, Dean of Libraries and Academic Innovation and Vice Provost for Information Technology) and a faculty director (Lorena Barba, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) to build on early successes and bridge to independent sustainability beyond Sloan funding. 

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