Lightning Talk: Amplifying University Research Impact with Open Source

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University program CROSS secures a $2M gift plus $2.6M in industry memberships to run four incubators that shepherd PhD prototypes into maintainable projects, often by aligning them to existing ecosystems. Example: a Skyhook DM incubator submission becomes an Apache Arrow pull request that cuts maintenance by an order of magnitude. The osre marketplace matches students, mentors and sponsors (borrowing GSOC) and reports high project success rates, student contributor pipelines and industry recruiting visibility.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50Research Prototypes
3. 2:08Cross
4. 3:26Note
5. 5:44OSRE
6. 9:04Outro

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