Why not create opensource.harvard.edu?

[SamuelMarks]

Seems like a good idea.

[pdurbin]

@SamuelMarks yes, a great idea. It's mentioned in the README:

opensource.harvard.edu

The code in this repo was hacked together by Philip Durbin who thinks that some day we should launch a site at opensource.harvard.edu and makes the argument in a Google doc where public comments are enabled and very much encouraged! You are also welcome to start a discussion about the opensource.harvard.edu idea by opening an issue in this repo. Harvard will never write as much open source software as Google, but we can use their showcase at https://opensource.google.com/projects for inspiration!

I see you're already leaving comments in the doc above! Thanks!

In practice, one must jump through some hoops to get a top level subdomain like opensource.harvard.edu but I've seen it happen many times.

It would probably make the most sense to create some preliminary content first (hosted on GitHub Pages perhaps) and then get the domain set up afterwards. That is, we'd want to make sure we have the capacity to create and maintain the site.

[SamuelMarks]

Let me see what my account let's me request?

Potentially I can…

[pdurbin]

@SamuelMarks any news? 😄

[SamuelMarks]

@pdurbin Hmm so looks like it'll take a bit of effort https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=20c87cdcdbba4f40a914fff31d9619af

We need to prove this is a university wide venture. Otherwise I can try for an opensource.meei.harvard.edu if you want? - I can also ask Professor Mitzenmacher for an opensource.eecs.harvard.edu and/or I can ask Professor David A. Weitz for opensource.physics.harvard.edu or opensource.seas.harvard.edu … just not sure I have enough weight with them to request such.

Maybe we need to put up posters around campus and post on all the internal forums to get expressions of interest, collect HUIDs, then put them all on an application process here https://trademark.harvard.edu/use-of-harvard-names-and-insignias-in-electronic-contexts - then we'll get our opensource.harvard.edu and someone (e.g., me!) will incorporate social features so we can collaborate on [open-source] projects of interest together.

[pdurbin]

@SamuelMarks I love the enthusiasm! 😄 🎉 🚀

You're in Cambridge, right? I'd love to meet up for a coffee. If you're up for that, please shoot me an email at [email protected]

[pdurbin]

At the kickoff today (#40), we seemed to agree that before we ask for opensource.harvard.edu we need to build a website that looks decent. Here's the data we have to work with right now: 2023-01-03.csv

(It's really a tsv but I changed it to csv so I could upload it here. It's from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6867331&version=4.0 .)

So! As I said today, I'm not the best frontend developer. I heard a suggestion to use Bootstrap, which sounds fine. I'm definitely open to someone taking lead on making a nice website.

Another idea was to have featured projects. We saw an example of this at https://opensource.google/projects (screenshot below).

Let's discuss more here or on Zulip: https://osdc.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/407032-harvard/topic/website/near/396586006

[pdurbin]

I started hacking around at pdurbin@60a9ee6

Here's a screenshot: