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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…

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!…

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…