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Stephen Downes

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An academic Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) can "lead or advise administrative efforts around policy, licensing compliance, and staff education" as well as be involved in other traditional academic functions. This article describes the creation of the  Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) OSPO. "Its goals are to discover and grow the footprint, of RIT's impact on all things Open including, but not limited to, Open Source Software, Open Data, Open Science, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources, and Creative Commons licensed efforts; what Open@RIT refers to in aggregate as 'Open Work.'" Readers may be interested in their Zotero collection on open work and open scholarship.

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