2025-2026 Meetings

Date	Title	Presenter	Summary
9/23/25	Rescuing Federal Research Data	Yea-Hung Chen and Ariel Deardorff, UCSF	Recent developments in data censorship and the current efforts to rescue and preserve government datasets. Organizations that have worked to preserve data, alternative sources of government data, and how you can get involved to protect valuable public information.
10/28/25	The UC OSPO Survey 2025: A multi-campus survey of open source contributors at the University of California	Virginia Scarlett, UC Santa Barbara	Results of April 2025 survey assessing state of UC Open Source. Survey sheds light on how and why academics contribute to open source projects, as well as some of the barriers holding them back.
11/18/25	Open Science, Data and Software in the Natural Capital Project	Emily Pavia, Dave Fisher, James Douglass, Stanford	Discussion of NatCap's open source software including a suite of computational models for quantifying ecosystem services (InVEST), supporting Python libraries for geoprocessing (PyGeoprocessing) and for generating human- and machine-readable metadata (GeoMetaMaker) and the recently-launched Natural Capital Project Data Hub that facilitates open access to ecosystem services data.
1/27/26	UCSF Data Library with Gabi Fragiadakis	Gabi Fragiadakis, UCSF	Discussion of the development and applications of the UCSF Data Library. The Data Library is a project that aims to capture, curate, and share biological data generated on campus — enabling data search, exploration, visualization and cross-project analyses through a series of applications in available via a web browser.
2/24/26	Developing open source air quality datasets for public health policy action	Ayako Kawano, Stanford	Examination of the impact of air pollution on population health and climate change in low- and middle-income countries using remote sensing data and machine learning methods. Winner of the Stanford University Libraries Data Sharing Prize for her work publishing a long-term dataset of fine particulate matter concentrations in India
3/17/26	Cal Blueprint for Nonprofits	Ethan Tam, Inaya Yusuf, Nathan Tam, Melissa Liu	Members of Cal Blueprint, a Berkeley run nonprofit that builds pro-bono web and mobile applications for nonprofits join us in a conversation about nonprofit sourcing, current and past projects, and structure of open development workflows across student teams.
4/28/26	New incentives for data sharing and the author-curated data reuse model	Tim Glinin, UCSF	Presentation of an "author-curated data reuse" model, a new framework for data sharing which incentivizes researchers to share high-quality datasets while ensuring appropriate credit and continued scientific involvement.

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