elections/2022/choudhury.xml

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	<name>Sayeed Choudhury</name>

	<title>Head of Open Source Programs Office and Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure, Applications and Services at Johns Hopkins University</title>

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	<email>sayeed@jhu.edu</email>

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I am the member representative from Johns Hopkins University which is working toward transitioning an open source software platform known as the Public Access Submission System (PASS) into an Eclipse product. Additionally, I am working with members of the Eclipse Foundation leadership to conceptualize a working group that focus on open source research software from universities with a goal toward additional translation of those software into Eclipse products.
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My interest in contributing further to the Eclipse Foundation’s goals relates to building better connections between universities’ and commercial open source software. Research universities produce a vast amount of open source software but, to date, have little direct engagement with companies and open source foundations. While I am working on a specific product (PASS), I view this effort as a model or exemplar for other university-based open source research software. I believe that fostering such connections has many potential benefits for the Eclipse Foundation including new members, greater adoption of existing handbooks and practices, more opportunities for translation of software from universities, and building capacity within universities to better engage with companies, including training of students to learn open source software development. Ultimately, such connections could lead to new funding opportunities for the Eclipse Foundation from universities and external funding agencies that fund universities (e.g., US National Science Foundation).

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<p>G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He leads the University's open source programs office (OSPO). Choudhury is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He was a Fellow in the Provost's office focused on open scholarship.</p>
<p>Choudhury was a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data. He was a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information and the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology.</p>
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	<affiliation>Johns Hopkins University</affiliation>

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