osre | UCSC OSPO

Accepted as 2025 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to have once again been selected as a Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2025 Open Source Research Experience (and with it the 2024 Summer of Reproducibility ) will once again benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors. We are now listed among 185 selected mentor organizations. See our organization page) on the GSoC 2025 site.

Since 2018, the we have successfully mentored over 50 GSoC supported contributors and look forward to working with more contributors this year! We are also excited to welcome back numerous former GSoC contributors joining us as 2025 GSoC mentors - Kiran Deol and Jack Luar.

Interested students should check out our projects for proposal ideas from our mentors. As an umbrella organization supporting many academic open source endeavors, our projects cover a wide range of topics including:

AI/ML
Reprodubibility
OS Hardware
Bioinformatics
Educational Technologies
Visualization
Storage systems
High Performance Computing

Students are encouraged to reach out to our mentors during the proposals stage. See our student information section for information related to the proposal process. Note we ask that all interested student join our Slack channel by March 23 in order for their application to be considered. Contact the OSRE admin to get the link.

OSRE 2025 Mentor Info Session

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The OSRE organizers recorded information session for mentors is now available for your review.

The OSRE is modeled after the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) which matches undergraduate student contributors with mentors working on open source projects. The OSRE leverages our involvement in global programs like GSoC to recruit students from around the world. All students are paid a stipend and mentors are provided administrative and other needed support to allow for a productive summer.

The OSRE 2024 supported the work of 40 successful summer projects and we are looking to expand that number even further this year. But we need mentors to work with our amazing students. Mentors from previous years have spoken highly of their experience:

In this video, the OSRE organizers give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being a mentor. We will also highlight the changes in the 2025 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

SoR 2025 Mentor Info Session

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The OSRE organizers will give a brief overview of the Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) 2025 program and discuss the benefits of being an SoR mentor at a Mentor Info Session on December 4, 2024 8:30am Pacific Time / 11:30 Eastern Time**.

The OSRE and the SoR is modeled after the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) which matches undergraduate student contributors with mentors working on open source projects. One goal of the OSRE program is to help make computational research efforts reproducible with our NSF funded Summer of Reproducibility. The OSRE leverages our involvement in global programs like GSoC to recruit students from around the world. All students are paid a stipend and mentors are provided administrative and other needed support to allow for a productive summer.

The OSRE funded student … helped us create detailed docs and scripts to easily reproduce our project evaluations. This not only eases our own future work, but also helps us promote our work as other people can easily reproduce our results.

[The program] provided us a great platform to connect with great students and have them join our projects and make progress.

[The OSRE] can be very useful for the sustainability of academic open source projects. It can help identify potential contributors and kick-start the design and implementation of new features.

At the December 4th meeting, we will give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being a mentor. We will be asking a number of our mentors from previous years to join in the discussion to share their experiences. We will also highlight the changes in the 2025 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

40 Contributors participating in OSRE '24

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Summer 2024 OSRE supporting 40 students working on Open Source and Reproductivity

Thanks to the support from the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and the National Science Foundation FAIROS RCN program, the UCSC OSPO has matched 40 students with mentors to contribute to open source and reproducibility this year. This year GSoC awarded us a record 18 slots with the Summer of Reproducibility supporting another 22 students. We are also working with other funding opportunities to support the work of additional students – so our list will be growing.

Most projects will run from late May to the end of August / early September.

Funding for these contributors is provided by the NSF REPETO Project-sponsored Summer of Reproducibility, the Google Summer of Code, and Baskin Engineering. Check out the Student Pages where contributors have begun blogging updates about their summer projects!

Accepted as 2024 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to have once again been selected as a Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2024 Open Source Research Experience (and with it the 2024 Summer of Reproducibility ) will once again benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors. We are now listed among 190 selected mentor organizations. See our organization page on the GSoC 2024 site.

Since 2018, the we have successfully mentored 36 GSoC supported contributors and look forward to working with more contributors this year! We are also excited to welcome back two former GSoC contributors joining us as 2024 GSoC mentors - Kiran Deol and Jack Luar.

AI/ML
Reprodubibility
OS Hardware
Bioinformatics
Educational Technologies
Visualization
Storage systems
High Performance Computing

Students are encouraged to reach out to our mentors during the proposals stage. See our student information section for information related to the proposal process. Note we ask that all interested student join our Slack channel by March 19 in order for their application to be considered. Contact the OSRE admin to get the link.

OSRE 2024 Mentor Info Session

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Video of Previous Info Session now available

Could your open source project or reproducibility-related research project benefit from working with enthusiastic and talented students who are paid to productively contribute to your work this coming Summer? Would you or someone in your open source or research project be able to mentor a new contributor for no more than 5 hours per week? The Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) Program may be the opportunity you are looking for to move your research forward and build your community.

The OSRE organizers will give a brief overview of the Summer 2024 program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor at a Mentor Info Session on January 11 at 10am Pacific Time.

The OSRE is modeled after the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) which matches undergraduate student contributors with mentors working on open source projects. The goal of the OSRE program is to seed contributor communities of UC-based open source research efforts through participation in parallel efforts like GSoC AND to help make computational research efforts reproducible with our NSF funded Summer of Reproducibility. The OSRE leverages our involvement in global programs like GSoC to recruit students from around the world. All students are paid a stipend and mentors are provided administrative and other needed support to allow for a productive summer.

The OSRE 2023 supported the work of 38 successful summer projects and we are looking to expand that number even further this year. But we need mentors to work with our amazing students. Mentors from previous years have spoken highly of their experience:

The OSRE funded student … helped us create detailed docs and scripts to easily reproduce our project evaluations. This not only eases our own future work, but also helps us promote our work as other people can easily reproduce our results.

[The program] provided us a great platform to connect with great students and have them join our projects and make progress.

[The OSRE] can be very useful for the sustainability of academic open source projects. It can help identify potential contributors and kick-start the design and implementation of new features.

At this meeting, we will give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor. We will be asking a number of our mentors from the OSRE 2023 program to join in the discussion to share their experiences. We will also highlight the changes in the 2024 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

Virtual Reproducibility Hackathon

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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About the Event

Reproducibility is not just a sound scientific practice – it also has many potential practical applications in teaching and creating new research results. At this event, the attendees will learn about how to package their computer science research experiments in such a way that they are not only reproducible – but also practically reproducible, i.e., capable of being reproduced easily enough to be used as a mainstream method of interactive scientific exploration and exchange.

Sign up to learn about practical reproducibility on Chameleon, receive guidance on packaging your experiments, share insights and feedback on the reproducibility process, and much more!

Get your research out there!

All participants who attend the hackathon and successfully upload an experiment as a reproducible artifact on Trovi by the end of December 2023 will have their artifacts featured on Trovi during January 2024 and receive an invitation to have their research featured in our Chameleon blog.

We hope that participants can use their initial work and what they learn at the Hackathon to make future contributions to reproducibility workshops and conferences such as ACM REP.

Reproducibility Sessions

The Hackathon will consist of three sessions held throughout the day to accommodate folks outside of the Central time zone:

Session I: Tutorial – Packaging Experiments for Practical Reproducibility – 10-12pm CT
Session II: Open Work Period – Packaging Your Experiments – 1-4pm CT
Session III: Open Discussion – Share Your Experience – 4:10-5pm CT

Participants are encouraged, but not required, to attend all three sessions.

I. Tutorial: Packaging Experiments for Practical Reproducibility

Session I will include an overview of Chameleon services, how to run experiments on Chameleon, how to package experiments for reproducibility, how to make such artifacts searchable and shareable, and other best practices for practical reproducibility. If you are interested in learning more about Chameleon Cloud and our digital artifact hub (Trovi), this session is for you!

Concepts may include how to use the NSF-funded Chameleon platform, one of the largest academic clouds, and how to package experiments for reproducibility using this platform; tools and services Chameleon provides to share experiments, including using Jupyter to manage the full experimental workflow including creating the environment, implementing the experiment body, and data analytics; using Chameleon daypass to give access to the testbed for reproducibility; as well as Trovi, an experiment sharing portal integrated with the testbed. The tutorial will also cover the existing experiment patterns available via Trovi representing common elements of experimental configurations such as e.g., configuring storage with RAID, NFS, or RDMA.

II. Open Work Period: Packaging Actual Experiments

During Session II, participants will work on packaging their experiments to share on the Chameleon digital artifact hub, Trovi, following the guidelines covered in Session I. Technical support and “office hours” will be provided for individuals and teams during this session. If you have an experiment that you have been wanting to share with others, this is a great opportunity to finally get that artifact online with some extra help and support from the Chameleon team!

No experiment to share at the moment? No problem! Participants are also encouraged to use this session to reproduce existing artifacts from a curated list of recommended experiments that we will post two weeks before the event.

How to come prepared for reproducibility success:

We recommend that participants who attend this session bring one of their own experiments that they would like to package and make available for reproducibility on Trovi. Experiments that already have an established code base with some documentation on GitHub or other public repositories are typically quicker to package and will be easier to work with during the session. Some knowledge of Chameleon and general cloud computing is also helpful (such as concepts covered in Session I). However, participants are not required to use Session II to package their experiments. Participants can also use the time to run other experiments that are already on Chameleon.

Participants will share their experiences during the hackathon and have time to ask more questions about the platform, give feedback on the Chameleon site, and brainstorm ideas to facilitate experiment reproducibility on public testbeds.

We hope to see you all on December 15!

OSRE 2024 Mentor Info Session

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Video of Info Session now available

The OSRE organizers will give a brief overview of the Summer 2024 program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor at a Mentor Info Session on November 29 at 10am Pacific Time.

The OSRE funded student … helped us create detailed docs and scripts to easily reproduce our project evaluations. This not only eases our own future work, but also helps us promote our work as other people can easily reproduce our results.

[The program] provided us a great platform to connect with great students and have them join our projects and make progress.

[The OSRE] can be very useful for the sustainability of academic open source projects. It can help identify potential contributors and kick-start the design and implementation of new features.

A Record 38 Contributors participating in OSRE '23

Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This year’s Open Source Research Experience is off to a fantastic start, with 38 contributors getting ready to work this summer on projects spanning open source hardware, software, and reproducibility in research and in teaching. Funding for these contributors is provided by the NSF REPETO Project-sponsored Summer of Reproducibility, the 2023 Google Summer of Code, and Baskin Engineering’s Inclusive Excellence Hub.

Check out the Student Pages where contributors have begun blogging updates about their summer projects!

Sponsor Open Source Research Experience

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Is your organization looking to better utilize open source and want to support projects that directly benefit your work?

Does your company want to strengthen the talent pipeline able to work on technologies essential to your organization’s success?

Do you want to collaborate with innovative open source projects being developed by University of California researchers?

Sponsor Projects –>

The UC Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) offers your organization the chance to participate in projects that can help your development cycles run faster, benefit from wide collaborations, and help support workforce development in domains your organization needs.

To become a sponsor, fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form. You will be asked to indicate the level of sponsorship you would like to fund and the open source projects you are most interested in engaging with.

Overview of Program

The OSRE includes University of California-based open source projects covering multiple disciplines. Our mentors, who are faculty and researchers from throughout the UC system, have provided a list of project ideas that will be the basis for the OSRE student’s work.

Launched in 2020, the Open Source Research Experience program has developed into a marketplace for open source project ideas that matches students to mentors, and engages sponsoring organizations to fund and participate in open source based summer internships. The goal of this program is to increase student capabilities in working in open source, add productive contributors to on-going projects, and further promote open source as a way to engage with communities spanning industry and academia.

OSRE mentors have posted their project ideas for undergraduates to review and help them create proposals for the summer. Industry partners and other outside sponsors can sponsor OSRE summer student funding and indicate their interest in particular projects.

Benefits of sponsorship

Collaborating on innovative project that are of strategic interest to your industry;
Supporting the teaching of open source techniques to a wide range of student contributors;
Interacting with the next generation of open source leaders and up and coming talent; and
Recognition as an OSRE Sponsor at the Open Source Research Symposium (Fall 2023)

Table: OSRE 2023 Sponsorship Levels
Level	Amount
Bronze	$3,750 (covers 50% of one student stipend for summer)
Silver	$7,500 (covers one student full-time for summer)
Gold	$15,000 (covers two students full-time for summer)

Becoming a sponsor is easy! Fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form or reach out to the OSRE Admins by April 20. Information requested by the form include: name of contact person, level of sponsorship, and projects you are most interested in (if applicable.) The OSRE Admins will follow up with next steps for finalizing the sponsorship process.

Sponsor Projects –>

Accepted as 2023 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We are very excited to have been selected as a 2023 Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2023 Open Source Research Experience and with it the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility will therefore benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors. We are now listed among 172 selected mentor organizations. We are listed under “Data” and “Science and medicine”.

Since 2018, the we have successfully mentored a total of 22 GSoC students. We look forward to mentoring this year’s students.

Interested students can check out our projects for proposal ideas from our mentors. Our projects cover a wide range of topics this year. Students are encouraged to reach out to our mentors during the proposals stage. See our student information section

AMA Session for 2023 Summer of Reproducibility and OSRE Mentors

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No registration necessary. Join session via zoom or email the OSRE Admins for a calendar invite.

More information on the programs see Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) and the Open Source Research Experience (OSRE).

Please feel free to share this information with any colleagues who you think might be interested or could benefit from participating in this program.

Register for the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) Mentor Info Session

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:15:56 -0700

Update: If you missed our info sessions so far, recordings are now available. There will be another informal Q&A session on January 26 at 10:30 Pacific Time.

Watch Videos –>

The UCSC Open Source Program Office is excited to introduce the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility (SoR 2023) into the Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) program and is looking for researchers and academics interested in being an SoR mentor.

For those of you unfamiliar with the OSRE, this program is modeled after the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) which matches undergraduate student contributors with mentors working on open source projects. The goal of the OSRE program is to seed contributor communities of UC-based open source research efforts and to help make computational research efforts reproducible. With this program the OSPO participates as mentor organization in GSoC and other outreach and sponsorship programs.

The OSRE began in 2020 and has included mentors from multiple UC campuses. (Find information about the 2022 OSRE here.) The Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) program is a new joint program with the new NSF-funded, collaborative REPETO Project (U Chicago, UC Santa Cruz, NYU Tandon). The SoR will focus on producing and using reproducibility artifacts as well as give summer students the opportunity to help out in this cutting-edge effort and acquire valuable skills related to reproducibility.

We will give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor. Join us on January 18 at 10:00am Pacific Time to hear about the Summer of Reproducibility followed immediately by an overview of the general OSRE program. Registration for this online event is now open. We will be asking a number of our mentors of the OSRE 2022 program to join in the discussion to share their experiences and we will also highlight the changes in the 2023 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

For a quick overview of what to expect of the OSRE 2023 please see information on the OSPO website. We are also happy to answer any questions prior to the January 18 session.

Please feel free to share this information with any colleagues who you think might be interested or could benefit from participating in this program.

Register for the OSRE 2023 Mentor Info Session

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:15:56 -0700

In case you missed our December 13 mentor info session, the recording is available now! (youtube channel)

WATCH HERE

The UCSC Open Source Program Office is excited to once again be sponsoring the Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) program in the Summer of 2023 and is looking for researchers and academics interested in being OSRE mentors.

The OSRE began in 2020 and has included mentors from multiple UC campuses. (Find information about the 2022 OSRE here.) A new feature for 2023 is the NSF funded Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) program! A part of the new NSF-funded, collaborative REPETO Project (U Chicago, UC Santa Cruz, NYU Tandon), the SoR will focus on producing and using reproducibility artifacts as well as give summer students the opportunity to help out in this cutting-edge effort and acquire valuable skills related to reproducibility.

We will give a brief overview of the program and discuss the benefits of being an OSRE mentor. Join us on December 13 at 10am Pacific Time. Registration for this online event is now open. We will be asking a number of our mentors the OSRE 2022 program to join in the discussion to share their experiences and we will also highlight the changes in the 2023 program aimed at making the OSRE even more rewarding for both mentors and students.

For a quick overview of what to expect of the OSRE 2023 please see information on the OSPO website. I’m also happy to answer any questions prior to the December 13 session.

Please feel free to share this invitation with any colleagues who you think might be interested or could benefit from participating in this program – both UC-affiliated colleagues working in open source and non-UC researchers that might benefit from the Summer of Reproducibility.

OSRE'22 Students Contributors Posters and Final Reports

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:15:56 -0700

The UCSC OSPO Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) Program is happy to announce that we had 12 successful summer programs. Ten of these contributors were supported by GSoC – double to the number we have had in 2021. Our other sponsors included Baskin Engineering, Toshiba America and CITRIS. The significant increase in contributor numbers was in large part due to the expansion of the OSRE to include mentors from other UC campuses and affiliated labs. This year the OSRE is excited to have 17 mentors who include researchers and faculty from three UC campuses (Santa Cruz, Riverside, and San Diego) as well one UC-run lab (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). All these mentors are involved with UC-based open source projects and ecosystems.

Student contributors began working on their projects in mid-June, with most ending by late August/ early September. All summer contributors were asked to create a poster for or provide a presenation at the 2022 Open Source Research Symposium in late September 2022. See links to those posters as well as final products below.

We look forward to holding OSRE 2023 next summer. We will begin recruitment for mentors in the coming months and students at the start of 2023.

Interested in sponsoring this program and getting to know more about open source projects on UC campuses. Contact CROSS’s Executive Director Stephanie Lieggi for more information.

OSRE 2022 Student Contributors

Table: OSRE 2022 Student Contributors
Contributor	Summer Project	Final Products	UC-based OS Project
Mohammad Abdussalam	Geospatial Data Science on AsterixDB	Poster / Product	Asterix
Xuan Xu	Python Interface to HDF5 Asynchronous I/O	Poster / Product	HDF5
Craig White	Create python interface for PDC	Poster / Product	PDC
Talha Ahmed	Register File Generator	Poster / Product	OpenRAM
Arman Avetisyan	OpenLane/SKY130 Demos and tutorials	Poster / Product	OpenRoad
Pranay Mathur	Path finding algorithm using OpenCV and machine learning	Presentation / Product	OSAVC
Bhumil Depani	Driver Module for Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller	Presentation / Product	OSAVC
Joshua Angel	Autonomous Vehicle and Sensor Dynamic Simulation with Gazebo	Presentation/ Product	OSAVC
Asavari Ambavane	Develop a website for PolyPhy	Poster / Product	PolyPhy
Patrice Musoke	DevOps for PolyPhy, A Python Library for Polyphorm.	Poster / Product	PolyPhy
Hari Prasad	Discrete graph extraction from simulated scalar fields	Poster / Product	PolyPhy
Rachel Lau	NVMe for Rotational Media	Poster / Product (On-going)	Eusocial Storage

osre | UCSC OSPO

Accepted as 2025 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

OSRE 2025 Mentor Info Session

SoR 2025 Mentor Info Session

40 Contributors participating in OSRE '24

Summer 2024 OSRE supporting 40 students working on Open Source and Reproductivity

Accepted as 2024 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

OSRE 2024 Mentor Info Session

Virtual Reproducibility Hackathon

About the Event

Reproducibility Sessions

I. Tutorial: Packaging Experiments for Practical Reproducibility

II. Open Work Period: Packaging Actual Experiments

How to come prepared for reproducibility success:

III. Open Discussion: Share Your Experience

OSRE 2024 Mentor Info Session

A Record 38 Contributors participating in OSRE '23

Sponsor Open Source Research Experience

Overview of Program

Benefits of sponsorship

OSRE Sponsor Levels

Becoming a Sponsor

Accepted as 2023 GSoC Mentor Organiztion

AMA Session for 2023 Summer of Reproducibility and OSRE Mentors

Register for the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) Mentor Info Session

Register for the OSRE 2023 Mentor Info Session

OSRE'22 Students Contributors Posters and Final Reports

OSRE 2022 Student Contributors