Industry Partners & Donors
The OSPO Impact
Your contribution helps us provide high-impact internships for UW-Madison and Madison College students, recognize leadership in open research through our Open Awards, and sustain the critical open source community that powers the Wisconsin Idea.
While open source research has a long history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the OSPO aims to build upon that success. We offer recognition, funding, and support for projects through our student internship program. We love open source innovation and are dedicated to pushing the open ecosystem at UW-Madison forward. Support for us means support for the 30+ projects we fund each year and for the OSPO’s many events to help educate and share open principles.
Open Source is all about sharing innovation with the world, it’s a modern manifestation of the Wisconsin Idea.
Support Our Mission
Your support drives the future of open source at UW-Madison. By donating to OSPO, you directly invest in the researchers, students, and practitioners who are building the next generation of open tools. Your contribution helps us provide high-impact internships for UW-Madison and Madison College students, recognize leadership in open research through our Open Awards, and sustain the open source community that empowers the Wisconsin Idea.
Industry Partnerships
We invite industry leaders to partner with OSPO to foster innovation and connect with the vibrant open source community at UW-Madison. Partnerships offer opportunities to collaborate on research, engage with talented student contributors, and support the long-term sustainability of the global open source ecosystem.
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Project Catalog
Dive into the various open source projects that our interns have worked on.
Open Awards
To promote open research and open sharing of knowledge, OSPO helps sponsor Open Source researchers.
Faces of Open Source
Get to know the Madison researchers pushing the boundaries of Open Source.