Webinar - Open Source Research Program at UCSC

You are invited to join us to hear about the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS - cross.ucsc.edu) at UC Santa Cruz where we teach students how to productively engage in open source communities, fund high-impact research with a plausible path to successful open source projects, and incubate developer communities around research prototypes. During the first 20 minutes, CROSS founder and director Carlos Maltzahn will provide a brief context and overview of the Open Source Research Experience (https://cross.ucsc.edu/programs/sponsorinformation.html), in which CROSS fellows provide project ideas and offer their excellent mentorship to undergraduate students. Interested students apply for particular project ideas, and fellows identify the best matches. Industry partners can help support this program by "up-voting" CROSS fellows (or their advisors) to signal their interest in particular project idea portfolios. An up-vote costs $9,500 which will be used to fund student summer internships, prioritizing students matched to project ideas by the most up-voted CROSS fellows. In return, up-voted CROSS fellows invite sponsors to participate in a blend of open source software strategies with graduate-level research in a concentrated environment of mentorship, including the opportunity to meet and interact with students and mentors, and an invitation to an end-of-summer presentation where they will show off the results of their work. The remaining 40 minutes are dedicated to fellows presenting the context of their project ideas. Project ideas are available at uccross.github.io/projects and cover hardware synthesis and simulation, storage and management of tabular data in Ceph, querying inconsistent databases, and container-native workflow authoring and execution.