This grant provides continued support for the Carnegie Mellon Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), which is directed by Sayeed Choudhury. With grant support, the OSPO will pilot and refine the ENGIN Software Foundation (ESF), which will advise and potentially provide an ongoing home for open source projects in the academic community. ESF will begin by providing high-touch analysis and support for a small set of pre-selected open source projects before scaling to more projects in subsequent years. The work at ESF could offer a blueprint for other universities and could eventually support projects originally developed at other institutions. ?The Foundation has provided $649,997 since 2022 in support of the Carnegie Mellon OSPO.