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Maintainers & Contributors Roundtable

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.

Meetings run on a monthly basis, with in-person and remote options available.

Roundtable Topics

Below is our (growing) list of topics discussed at M&CR meetings. Topics are subject to change according to the requests of the group.

In addition, members of the M&CR present on their current projects and share their professional experiences while developing open source software for research.

Establishing a credit system for data & software as research products

Ensuring the long-term stability & maintenance of open source software projects

Community-building & Idea-sharing: Growing a contributor community

How valued is [my work in] open source software development for research?

Funding opportunities & Other resources for building and growing projects

National Open Source Program Office (OSPO) initiative & Open source outside Stanford

Beyond software: Capturing workflows as tooling for reproducible pipelines

Organizing your project: Licensing, Citations, Contributor Guidelines, and Repo structure