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Please join Peter Alvaro, Scott Brandt, Craig Ulmer, and me in congratulating Dr. Jianshen Liu on his successful Ph.D. defense today on “Extending Composable Data Services to Embedded Systems”.

Today I was notified by the Chancellor that I will be appointed as the Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software. This is an incredible honor and I thank those who nominated and selected me. And I thank Sage Weil. The Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software was endowed with a $500,000 donation by Sage Weil who founded the Ceph project as part of his Ph.D. project at UC Santa Cruz, plus a $500,000 match by the President of the University of California.

We are very excited to have been selected as a 2023 Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization. The 2023 Open Source Research Experience and with it the 2023 Summer of Reproducibility will therefore benefit from GSOC’s world-wide outreach and generous funding of contributors. We are now listed among 172 selected mentor organizations. We are listed under “Data” and “Science and medicine”.

Incubator Fellow and PolyPhy Project Lead Oskar Elek and Stephanie Lieggi, executive director for OSPO and the Center for Research in Open Source Software, Hakimshafaei will develop an interface built off of an existing web-based AI generator that will allow the end user to control the system’s behavior to generate interesting and unique patterns.

With the support of a one-year, $300,000 grant from the NSF, PI Carlos Maltzahn and co-PI Stephanie Lieggi will explore sustainable support infrastructures for the Skyhook Data Management project.

With the support of a three-year, $900,000 grant from the NSF, Carlos Maltzahn will participate in collaborative research to increase the reproducibility of computer science research.

Registration is now open for the 2022 UC Santa Cruz Open Source Symposium: the hybrid event will take place at UC Santa Cruz on September 27-29, 2022 – with the not-to-be-missed Systems Oktoberfest returning on the first day’s evening at the lovely UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn!

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community.

Recognizing outstanding efforts in improving transparency and reproducibility of methods for high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis.

Enhancing reproducibility of accepted papers and leading the student reproducibility challenge.