Coordination documents for the UC OSPO Network: presentations, reports, a Quarto-rendered history, and planning drafts.
GitHub: UC-OSPO-Network/network-docs
Published site: ucospo.net/network-docs
A 10-minute talk making the case that open source software is research infrastructure, presenting the UC OSPO Network as a model for institutional support, and connecting OSPO work to data professionals' existing roles.
- Slides: iassist-2026-slides.html
- Handout:
presentations/iassist-2026/iassist-2026-handout.html - Source:
presentations/iassist-2026/iassist-2026-slides.qmd - Citation:
presentations/iassist-2026/CITATION.cff
Built with Quarto + Reveal.js. Includes a companion handout and a CSV of CURIOSS member institutions.
presentations/02-Dennis_Breakout-open-ed_WED.pptx— UC Open breakout session slidespresentations/speaker_notes_uc_open.md— Speaker notes for UC Open presentation
A Quarto book tracing UC research software from BSD Unix through Jupyter, Ceph, Spark, RISC-V, and beyond. Covers the origin stories, the pattern of open release, and what it means for institutional support today.
- Published: ucospo.net/network-docs/history
- Source:
history/(Quarto book project)
Chapters are organized in two parts: The Record (project histories) and The Analysis (pattern, stakes, and the network). Appendix covers individual projects in detail.
Internal and working documents in reports/:
education-activity-report.md— UC OSPO education activity summaryaccessibility-audit-2026-03-14.md/ACCESSIBILITY_AUDIT_REPORT.md— accessibility audits of network sitesweb-design-guidelines-audit-2026-03-14.md/react-best-practices-audit-2026-03-14.md— design and code quality reviewsmeeting-agenda-2026-03-10.md/issues-to-raise-2026-03-14.md— meeting recordsmetadata-learningresource.csv— schema.org metadata for learning resources
Working drafts in drafts/:
feature-ideas-2026-05.md— feature ideas backloglesson-dev-appeal.md— draft appeal for lesson development support
The history book and IASSIST slides are published via GitHub Actions to ucospo.net. See .github/workflows/publish.yml for the deployment configuration.