Paul Sharratt
psharratt.bsky.social
Paul Sharratt
@psharratt.bsky.social
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April 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It's not too late to register for State of Open Con in London on Feb 4 -5! I'll be on the keynote stage and joining a panel to talk about open source rug pulls, relicensing, and forks. I hope you'll join me! stateofopencon.com/attend-2025/ #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon25
January 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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In collaboration with Cailean Osborne, @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, and
@mirkoboehm.bsky.social, @psharratt.bsky.social , STA’s Policy and Research Manager, has co-authored "A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development."
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December 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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What’s the Impact of Funding Open Source?

Check out the paper that @psharratt.bsky.social presented at OpenForum Symposium together with Cailean Osborne (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), @geekygirldawn.bsky.social CHAOSS and Mirko Boehm linuxfoundation.org

arxiv.org/abs/2411.06027
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I'm beyond chuffed to present our paper on methods to measure the impact of public funding on OSS development at the OFA Symposium at Harvard's Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute this week. (1/2)
OFA Symposium – The OpenForum Academy Symposium
symposium.openforumeurope.org
November 12, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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(3/3) Second, I'm going to talk about the research I've been doing to look at projects that have relicensed to non-oss licenses that have resulted in forks. You can find the paper, presentation, and data here: github.com/chaoss/wg-da...
wg-data-science/publications at main · chaoss/wg-data-science
CHAOSS Data Science Working Group: collaborate and improve open source project health using data science-based approaches - chaoss/wg-data-science
github.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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(2/3) First, we're talking about a toolkit for measuring the impact of public funding for OSS projects. This is work I've been doing with @psharratt.bsky.social Cailean Osborne and @mirkoboehm.bsky.social. This NGI post has a good summary: commons.ngi.eu/2024/11/12/m... and has a link to the paper.
Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development
Open source software (OSS) has become critical digital infrastructure, powering approximately 96% of codebases and constituting up to 90% of commercial software stacks. Traditionally maintained by vol...
commons.ngi.eu
November 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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I'm super excited to be in Boston this week for OFE's OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium where I get to talk about some of the research I've been doing! symposium.openforumeurope.org (1/3)
OFA Symposium – The OpenForum Academy Symposium
symposium.openforumeurope.org
November 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM