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Openness is at the heart of how CERN works — from sharing knowledge to building tools. The Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) helps teams at CERN make their software and hardware openly available and easier to share. It has now published its first report, available at https://repository.cern/records/rc65y-sv737. The OSPO was established in 2023 to support

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Anastasia Stasenko and Pierre-Carl Langlais from Pleias shared their view on open-source AI and public data: what today’s problems are and how CERN can help. Sophia Vargas from Google’s OSPO shared how to collectively work towards OSS sustainability. Both were really fascinating and insightful presentations: if you missed them, watch their recordings available on Indico!

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Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has long been a driving force in scientific discovery and technological advancement. Beyond its groundbreaking research, CERN has also quietly championed open-source software for decades. But how to measure CERN’s impact on the global open-source community? “Member states will appreciate

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The collaboration has also made publicly available the software that it developed to search for the unique particle As part of its continued commitment to making its science fully open, the CMS collaboration has just publicly released, in electronic format, the combination of CMS measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson

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CERN launches its Open Source Program Office to help you with the release of your software and hardware designs Have you ever considered making your software or hardware designs publicly available? Sharing your work with collaborators in research and industry has many advantages, but it may also present some questions and challenges. To help you

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