The call for proposals for the 2026 GW #OpenSource Conference is now open!

🔗 CFP: go.gwu.edu/oscon

📅 Dates: March 23–24, 2026

📍 Location: @gwu1821.bsky.social, Washington, D.C.

#GWOSCON #AcademicOSPO #AcademicOSS

Great update from #CURIOSS member @labarba.bsky.social of the #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity #GWOSCON conference!

📖https://ospo.gwu.edu/celebrating-gws-first-annual-open-source-conference-hooray

# academicOSPOs # academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #opensource #openscience #OSScommunity #AcademicSky

🍀 Best of luck to #CURIOSS member, @david-lippert.bsky.social, and all involved in the inaugural #GWOSCON next week!

🏆 What a great tagline from @labarba.bsky.social :

"Free to attend, free t-shirt, free lunch, free coffee ☕️ And of course, free and open source software 🚀"

ℹ️ bit.ly/4imRlDZ

The "Source code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology Act or the SHARE IT Act" requires agency contracts for custom-development of software to acquire and exercise rights sufficient to allow government-wide access, sharing, use, and modification #GWOSCON
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

Amazing keynote showing how open source software can help deliver better health outcomes for America!
#GWOSCON

Day 2 of the #GWOSCON launches with keynote speakers Andrea Fletcher and Remy DeCausemaker, leaders of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services OSPO

Paul Barrett began advocating for the use of #Python in astronomy while working at Goddard Space Flight Center. In his talk, "The Early Years of Scientific Python," he notes that key to scientific Python was the slicing or indexing syntax, enabling multi-dimensional arrays! 🚀
#GWOSCON

Open source software used by NASA
#GWOSCON

Starting now! So excited for our inaugural #GWOSCON
Dean Geneva Henry welcoming everyone with optimism about the role of #OpenSource in our university. Inspiring!

This week's inaugural #GWOSCON was a fantastic conference about open source software. The slides for my presentation "Reproducible Data Science with Open Source Tools" are available on GitHub in my talks repository: github.com/jayqi/talks

Did not know the software processing James Web Telescope data was #opensource 😲

At the first ever GW open source conference #gwoscon