How your organization can support innovation & future open source leaders
Engage with researchers and new student talent on exciting open source innovations!
Priority Deadline for Expression of Interest from Sponsors -
May 19, 2022
Read about the Successful 2021 Program and Innovative Student Projects
Does your organization want to utilize more open-source software? Are you planning to focus more on cloud computing, in-memory computing, software-defined storage, more flexible databases, high-performance computing, and other state-of-the-art methods? The UC Santa Cruz Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) offers you the chance to participate in projects that will save you money, make your products and development cycles run faster and utilize the latest approaches, and provide insight you could never achieve on your own.
Your organization can sponsor highly productive teams engaged in open source software engineering and graduate-level research and participate in these efforts at a level that makes sense. To do so:
- Go to the list of project ideas and select the "Interested?" link next to each project that you are interested in. Each link will generate a pre-populated email. Simply hit send. Or just email a list of your favorite projects to ospo-info-group@ucsc.edu.
- Indicate your level of sponsorship using this form. Your level of sponsorship can be independent from the number of projects you are interested in.
- Please send your email(s) and fill out the form by May 19
- Stephanie Lieggi (slieggi@ucsc.edu) will reach out to you (or your designated contact) to process your sponsorship.
The level of interest in projects can serve as a tie breaker when sponsorship is limited.
Overview of Program:
For Summer 2022, the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) will be working with organizations interested in directly supporting the efforts of OSRE students contributing to University of California-based open source software projects. Our mentors, who are faculty and researchers from throughout the UC system, have provided a list of project ideas that will be the basis for student work. The goal of this program is to increase student capabilities in working in open source projects, add productive contributors to on-going projects, and further promote open source throughout the UC system.
OSRE mentors have posted their project ideas for undergraduates to review and help them create proposals for the summer. Industry partners and other outside sponsors can sponsor OSRE summer student funding and indicate their interest in particular projects.
Benefits of sponsorship include:
- Collaborating on innovative project that are of strategic interest to your industry;
- Supporting the teaching of open source techniques to a wide range of student contributors;
- Interacting with the next generation of open source leaders and up and coming talent; and
- Recognition as an OSRE Sponsor at the Open Source Research Symposium
The UC Open Source Symposium -- scheduled for October 2022 -- will include presentations by all participating students and will highlight the support of their mentors and sponsors.
Sponsorships for the program start at $9,500 per summer student (discounted rate for two or more students sponsored). The sponsorship funding will support the work of student contributors to work full time with a UC-affiliated mentor (or mentor team) for up to 12 weeks over the summer.
How much does it cost to Sponsor the OSRE program?
- There are varying sponsorship levels/costs based on the number of student slots you want to fund:
- $9500 for 1 student
- $18500 for 2 students ($9250/student)
- $27000 for 3 students ($9000/student)
- $35000 for 4 students ($8750/student)
- This funding is used to support summer students, prioritizing projects by level of interest.
How does my organization become an OSRE sponsor?
- Go to the list of project ideas and select the "Interested?" link next to each project that you are interested in. Each link will generate a pre-populated email. Simply hit send. Or just email a list of your favorite projects to ospo-info-group@ucsc.edu.
- Indicate your level of sponsorship using this form.
- Please send your email(s) and fill out the form by May 19
- Stephanie Lieggi (slieggi@ucsc.edu) will reach out to you (or your designated contact) to process your sponsorship.
How do I find out more about our open source projects and what the benefits are to being an OSRE sponsor?
- The video of the recorded information session for mentors is here.
- Please reach out to us directly (ospo-info-group@ucsc.edu) and we can set up a time to talk with you about the program.
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