The OSPO provides resources and expertise to help advance and sustain open source initiatives within the Hopkins community. Our team is available for 1:1 conversations to discuss your specific needs and explore how we can support your software projects. Whether you’re starting a new project or looking to strengthen an existing one, we invite you to reach out and learn more about how our consulting services can help. Below are some examples of the support we offer:
Best Practices for FAIR Software
Whether you’re starting a new project or working with existing software, we can help you make it more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. We’ll walk you through practical steps like setting up proper documentation, choosing the right licenses, adding metadata, and making sure your code can be easily discovered and cited. This is about maximizing your software’s impact and making it easier for others to build on your work.
Strategic Planning
Not sure where your research software project is headed? The OSPO can help guide conversations about where things stand now, talk through any challenges you’re facing, and identify what success looks like for your specific goals. We’ll help you find resources and connections that could support your work, then create a practical plan with clear next steps.
Sustainability Planning
It can be difficult to figure out how to keep your research software going beyond the initial funding or when team members move on. The OSPO can help you think through realistic approaches for long-term maintenance, find potential funding paths, and set up your project so it can weather transitions like graduating students or changing funding priorities.
Community Engagement
Successful projects come from community needs. The OSPO can help identify your project’s key stakeholders, including users, potential contributors, funders, and other interested researchers. Then we’ll work together to figure out how to move them along the community participation model, from simply consuming information about your project to contributing, collaborating, and eventually becoming champions who help sustain and grow your community.
Email ospo@jhu.edu to get started.
