Open Source in Education, Science and Research
Schedule: June 3, 2025, 9:30-12:30.
Room: January Room
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Abstract
Open source software is pervasive across all industries and economies, including, and increasingly, within academic and research institutions. Open source principles and practices around collaboration, co-creation, and peer review inherently resonate with faculty and researchers already familiar with the academy's approach to education, research, and science. Across Europe, particularly throughout France, a variety of open initiatives are fueling innovative partnerships among universities and between industries. The potential for the projects, institutions, companies, and the public is remarkable, but new models raise new questions. How does an "open source approach" impact scientific organizations' internal operations, institutional processes, and partnerships? How can organizations identify, engage, and leverage open source solutions? And perhaps most significantly, how can institutions of higher education introduce students to open source models as part of both academic programs and workforce development in support of next-generation IT.
This session includes presentations from Apereo projects and other initiatives, followed by an open discussion.
Content and program (under progress)
For the global OW2con'26 program please see https://pretalx.ow2.org/ow2con-2026/schedule/.
The detail of the breakout Education is presented below:
- 09:30 : Sovereign AI using Open Weights Models on NVIDIA SPARK GB10 for Education, Christian CHABRERIE, EPITA
- 09:50 : Measuring the Stages of Open Source Adoption, Avi Press, Founder and CEO of Scarf
- 10:10 : Co-Creating the Future: Building AI Into Xerte Through Community Collaboration, Inge Donkervoort, Xerte project
10:30 - 11h00 : Coffree break
- 11:10 : From Data to Action: Open-Source Learning Analytics with Xerte Online Toolkits, Tom Reijnders, CTO, DLearning
- 11:30 : DatWeb: Building Custom Scientific Tools with Peer-to-Peer Data, Nina Breznik
- 11:50 : Measuring the Stages of Open Source Adoption, Avi Press
- 12:10 : Sustaining Open Source in/for Science: From Project to Ecosystem, Patrick Masson, APEREO
Call for Participation (closed now)
Proposals of presentations in this Breakout Session can be done through the main CFP by choosing the relevant track.
After the deadline it will still be possible to submit a talk by sending your proposal to event-team@ow2.org.
Coordinator
This workshop is coordinated by Patrick Masson, Executive Director at the Apereo Foundation.
Registration
Please make sure to get your OW2con'26 free ticket to access the breakout session, and take this opportunity to attend the full conference program.
Feedback about previous Education Breakout Sessions
Find more about the Open Source in Education session at OW2con'24 on Apereo website: https://www.apereo.org/news/2024/apereos-premiere-ow2con-24-first-many
