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Building Bridges: Highlights from the Inaugural UC Open Source Meetup

July 15, 2025

The first-ever UC Open Source Contributors & Maintainers Virtual Meetup welcomed faculty, staff, and researchers from across the University of California system into a shared space for connection, discovery, and collaboration. Organized by the UC...Read more about Building Bridges: Highlights from the Inaugural UC Open Source Meetup

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A new BIDS space where faculty and researchers will convene and work collaboratively and discussion between research groups and projects will spark innovation.

About BIDS

BIDS is a home for data-intensive research, open-source software, & data science training programs. Our programs and initiatives are designed to facilitate collaboration across an increasingly diverse and active data science community of domain experts from the life, social, and physical sciences, as well as methodological experts from computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics. Since its launch in 2013, BIDS has cultivated an environment of open inquiry and discovery for data-intensive research.