Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)

The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. The program supports the formation of new open-source ecosystem (OSE) managing organizations based on existing open-source products, whereby each organization is responsible for the creation and management of processes and infrastructure needed for the efficient and secure development and maintenance of an OSE. POSE constitutes a new pathway to translate scientific innovations, specifically focused on supporting the transition from open-source research artifacts to OSEs. The program seeks two types of proposals: Phase I for OSE scoping and planning, and Phase II for OSE establishment and expansion. Phase I projects enable scoping activities that will inform the transition of promising research products into sustainable OSEs, while Phase II projects support the transition of open-source products with existing communities into sustainable and robust OSEs. The expected outcomes are to grow the community of researchers and innovators who develop and contribute to OSE efforts, and to enable pathways for the safe and secure development of OSEs that have broad societal impacts.