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• 29 Jun 2026 » IEEE’s Pervasive Computing’s Test of Time Award for OpenStreetMap original paper

  As WeeklyOSM 830 reminded us last week: Muki Haklay, Professor of Geographical Information Science in the UCL Department of Geography, and UCL alumnus Patrick Weber, have won the IEEE’s Pervasive Computing’s Test of Time Award for their 2008 p... Read more…

• 17 Oct 2025 » The BrainGlobe Initiative wins 2025 International Prize

  The BrainGlobe initiative has been awarded the 2025 International Prize by the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes Selection Committee. The award, organised by The Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, recognises BrainGlobe’s con... Read more…

• 15 Jul 2025 » Survey on your perspectives on contributing to open source projects in academia

  ✨ Calling all academic coders! We need your views on open source in academia ✨ Message from Arielle Bennett - SSI 2025 Fellowship. TL;DR 🚀 Survey on your perspectives on contributing to open source projects in academia ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Close... Read more…

• 01 May 2025 » SSI launches the Research Software Maintenance Fund

  The Software Sustainability Institute has created a great opportunity for Research Software, including all those that support Open Science. This Research Software Maintenance Fund has got £4.8 million to fund small and large projects. This is not ... Read more…

• 19 Feb 2025 » ARC at FOSDEM

  A couple of weeks ago various members of ARC attended FOSDEM, the amazing festival of Open Source and some of its satellite events. Read the posts that three of our members wrote on their return: FOSDEM 2025 by Sam Cunliffe FOSDEM 2025: A W... Read more…

• 04 Apr 2022 » ARC launches a Open Source Software Sustainability Funding opportunity

  Quick! Go to this OSS sustainability funding call that ARC is running. There are £50k available! Read more…