Hello from the OSPO!

[LauraLangdon]

Hello! I’m the Community Manager for the UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, and I’m reaching out to folks who have UC-affiliated public repos on GitHub to introduce myself and see if the OSPO network can support your open source efforts. I’ll be helping maintainers who would like to increase the number of contributors to their projects, and I wondered if you might be interested in that kind of endeavor for this project. Absolutely no pressure, just a service available to you if you’d find it useful! 😊
 
Let me know if you'd like to connect further, and I'd be happy to discuss how we might be able to support your open source work.
 
Cheers,
Laura

[rlnsanz]

Hi Laura,

Thank you so much for reaching out and for your patience while I navigated a work sprint and the holiday season. I appreciate the introduction to the UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network and the offer of support—it’s definitely something I’d love to explore further.

I’m currently a postdoc at Arizona State University, where I continue to maintain Flor, and I plan to do so for the foreseeable future. I’m at a point where I’m ready to start building a more robust open source community of users and contributors, and your help in growing and sustaining that community would be invaluable. In particular, I would greatly appreciate any dedicated programmer time or other resources your office might have available.

Please let me know how we might best connect to discuss next steps. I look forward to hearing more about how the OSPO network can support this project and collaborating with you on Flor’s future.

Warm regards,
Rolando

[LauraLangdon]

Hi Rolando, and congrats on the postdoc! I've checked with the OSPO network admins, and it looks like if there no Flor maintainers currently students or employees of the UC then it's not quite a fit for what I originally had in mind , but it is a fit for the Open Source Research Program we're doing with Google Summer of Code. Would you be interested in having Flor be a project our OSRE students work on?