Programs

The Maintainers & Contributors Roundtable (M&CR) functions as a community space for developers who are either interested in or already actively maintaining and/or contributing to open source projects. Members of the M&CR will learn, discern, and propagate best practices in open source development as it pertains to their work at Stanford, individual research projects, and intellectual interest in open source.

If you are a coding lead or PhD/PostDoc researcher from a Stanford research lab who is interested in joining the Maintainers & Contributors Roundtable, please reach out to the Technical Community Manager at fvera@stanford.edu.

We are excited to be the first academic Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to form a working relationship with pyOpenSci and rOpenSci to deepen knowledge of or Python and R software peer review programs and engage with their broader open source communities! Workshops and trainings will be made available to Stanford graduate students, postdocs, and staff. 

To help research groups get started, OpenSource@Stanford provides consultations on matters related to open source licenses and community development. We do not provide legal advice, rather general considerations around open source licensing, and a window into what peer groups are doing across campus. It is still early days, and we have much to learn from the already successful projects at Stanford, but we hope to expand our consulting services to help research groups make cogent decisions about how (and whether) to grow the community that they lead.