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 partner with pyOpenSci to deepen knowledge of peer code review, Python package management, and community engagement. As the first academic Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to form a working relationship with pyOpenSci, we will pilot a membership model in the hopes of scaling engagement for other academic OSPOs in the United States. Workshops and trainings will be made available to Stanford graduate students, postdocs, and staff. Register here.

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.

Click here to request a consultation.