Join us for the Research@Eclipse Agora meeting! We have selected three topics that we think are especially relevant for researchers, academics and participants from government institutions.
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OSPO++ Working Group: bringing an Open Source Program Office to your organization
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Privacy and Data Protection - implications for researchers
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Research@Eclipse - enabling project sustainability for research
The Agora will be an open discussion forum. We’re open to additional topics or adding an informal session to one of the upcoming evenings. Send your ideas to research (at) eclipse.org.
To sign up for the Research Agora, register for EclipseCon and you’ll receive your invitation to the conference Swapcard platform.
Program Details
The Rise of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in Industry, Academia, and Municipal Government
Over the past 20 years of Open Source implementation, a best practice has emerged in industry involving the construct of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO). The best OSPOs go beyond housekeeping matters such as licensing, and extend to solve problems in the greater Open Source community through collective effort. Can Municipalities and Universities achieve their policy goals and support healthy open source communities through OSPOs as well? The OSPO++ Working Group believes they can, and is building a community of institutions embarking on this journey together.
This session will introduce EclipseCon members to the OSPO++ construct and provide interactive discussion breakouts on the topic. It will review real-world examples including Johns Hopkins University, LERO & the country of Ireland, and the City of Paris.
The session will be co-hosted by Jacob Green and Richard Littauer (of SustainOS & Mosslabs.io).
Privacy and Data Protection - implications for researchers
If you're running a research project, chances are that you may be aware of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and wonder how it may affect your research (otherwise, here comes a spoiler: privacy and data protection aren't just matters for lawyers –if you're responsible for your research, so should you for its privacy). In this talk we will address which privacy and data protection issues researchers may face and how to deal with them in their projects.
- What personal data may I be addressing in my project?
- What do I need to do to protect them and their privacy?
- Are there any specific provisions when we're dealing with data from research subjects?
- How do all these privacy things relate to Open Research?
We will also present the four tenets (Be Proactive, Not Reactive; Code is Law; Know Thyself; Be Good and Look Like) that guide the methodology for privacy and data protection we've developed at the PDP4E project, and the Privacy Data-Protection and Trust Worthiness Community just launched at Eclipse.
This session will be co-hosted by Antonio Kung, Trialog, Alejandra Ruiz Lopez, Tecnalia, Yod Samuel Martín, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Research@Eclipse - enabling project sustainability for research
Openness, Open Data, and Open Source have become essential elements of publicly funded research projects. The question is no longer IF you do Open Source in your research project but HOW you implement a successful Open Source strategy.
The concept of “public money - public code” should be a prerequisite for any project creating software with taxpayers’ money. But, Open Source doesn’t have to stop there. If done right, Open Source can be the path to successful commercial exploitation, especially for the complex ecosystem of academia, research organisations and industries that are brought together in research projects.
In this session we will introduce the Eclipse Foundation’s approach to supporting sustainability for research projects, from proposal phase to beyond project lifetime. We will discuss why we think pushing code to GitHub at the end of a research project is not a sustainable Open Source strategy and give examples from our experience as partner in more than 15 research projects. The session will cover three pillars:
- Eclipse development process for research projects aka Research Labs
- Open Source as sustainability strategy for research projects
- Dissemination and community building to maximize Open Source impact
This session will be co-hosted by Philippe Krief, Marco Jahn and Susan Iwai, Eclipse Foundation.