About
The Berkeley Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is located within the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and serves as the central hub for coordinating, facilitating, and supporting open source initiatives at UC Berkeley, primarily within the university’s research community. Jarrod Millman is the executive director, as well as a Senior Open Source Scientific Python Developer at BIDS. Under his direction, the OSPO aims to facilitate knowledge sharing, promote best practices, and provide support for open-source projects at every stage of their lifecycle.
Berkeley OSPO and UC OSPO Network Events
Upcoming 2026-27
- OSPO Network monthly meetup (online): First Thursday of every month at 10am Pacific, starting July 2, 2026
- A monthly gathering for the UC open source community. Each meetup is co-hosted by a different campus in the network, with the hosting campus setting the agenda for the first half (demos, workshops, guest speakers, whatever they want to share), and the second half an open community call for network updates, project sharing, and Q&A. Students, staff, faculty, researchers, and folks outside UC all welcome!
Completed 2026
- Thursday, February 19 @ 3pm/3:30pm (hybrid) - OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open science as a process, not a product
- Thursday, March 5 @ 10am (online) - OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange
- Thursday, March 19 @ 3pm/3:30pm (hybrid) - OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open source and open data powering multimodal models for the study of culture
2025
- Thursday, September 18 @ 3:30pm (hybrid) - OSPO Monthly Meetup: What can your OSPO do for you?
- Thursday, October 2 @ 10am (online): OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: UX design with Superbloom
- Thursday, October 16 @ 3:30pm (hybrid) - OSPO Monthly Meetup: Chris Holdgraf and Yuvi from 2i2c
- Thursday, November 6 @ 10am (online) - OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: JupyterCon Share Out
- Thursday, November 20 @ 3:30pm (hybrid) - OSPO Monthly Meetup: Monica Bobra, Principal Data Scientist at the California Office of Data and Innovation
- Thursday, December 4 @ 10am (online) - OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Scientific Python Developer Summit Highlights
Learn More
Visit the OSPO website and sign up for the OSPO announcement list by emailing ospo+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu.
Visit the UC OSPO Network website and its YouTube channel for videos from OSPO events.
NEWS
UC Berkeley’s OSPO Executive Director Joins Global Leaders at a UN Symposium
August 26, 2024 | Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
UC Berkeley joins effort to advance open source initiatives across UC system
April 17, 2024 | College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)