CERN’s Open Source Program Office
summary
CERN launches an Open Source Program Office (mandated May 2023, launched Nov 2023) to centralize licensing, cataloging and training across thousands of internal GitLab projects and a few hundred GitHub orgs; the office is a 12-person team working part-time to publish a software catalog and updated open hardware listings. CERN runs a 27 km collider that produces up to 40 million images/sec, stores >1,000 PB, and plans CHAOSS-based metrics, training days and a public catalog to track critical FOSS dependencies.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction to CERN
- 1:04CERN’s mission and research
- 3:33Particle accelerator and detectors
- 6:47Worldwide computing grid
- 8:10Open science at CERN
- 10:38Open source milestones
- 13:52Open hardware and licenses
- 14:55Open source adoption growth
- 16:22Open source in IT and science
- 18:54Need for an OSPO
- 21:02Creating the OSPO mandate
- 23:12OSPO structure and goals
- 26:26OSPO operations and challenges
- 27:30OSPO plans for 2024
- 31:45Closing remarks and thanks
- 32:26Q&A: IT infrastructure team size
- 33:53Q&A: Open source mindset at CERN
- 36:24Q&A: Maintaining OSPO momentum
- 38:12Q&A: Early OSPO requests
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