At the Apereo Foundation MicroConference on December 10, 2025, Dylan Ruediger and Chelsea McCracken will report on the key findings and recommendations of “Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise,” a workshop hosted on August 8 by Ithaka S+R and the Apereo Foundation and funded by the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

The workshop brought together 40 people across OSS communities of practice to discuss how OSS created by researchers in the academy can be sustained long-term. Key themes included: harnessing the overlap between the academic mission and OSS (e.g. valuing student workforce development and viewing software as scholarship); funding OSS as infrastructure; and strengthening systems of coordination (e.g. on-campus leadership, extra-institutional collaboration, a registry or mapping of software, and community standards for which OSS projects should be sustained).