"Researchers receive grant to study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software"

[Harnum, Alan]

Cross-posting to the community list and fluid-work.

“The grant funds research into the maintenance of open-source software (OSS) projects, particularly focusing on the visible and invisible work that project maintainers do to support their projects and communities, as well as issues of burnout and maintainer sustainability.” (more detail at https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/researchers-receive-grant-study-invisible-work-maintaining-open-source-software)

Part of this larger project, which announced a number of interesting grants this week: https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/announcing-13m-in-funding-for-digital-infrastructure-research/

This looks to be a continuation of the initiative that produced the (excellent) 2016 “Roads and Bridges: the Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure” report: https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure

ALAN HARNUM
SENIOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPER
INCLUSIVE DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE, OCAD UNIVERSITY

E aharnum at ocadu.ca<mailto:aharnum at ocadu.ca>
OCAD UNIVERSITY
100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada, M5T 1W1
www.ocadu.ca<http://ocadu.ca/>

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