Patrick MASSON, Apereo
Patrick currently serves as the Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation. Before Apereo, Patrick served as General Manager at the Open Source Initiative after working within higher education IT for over twenty years, including roles as CIO within the State University of New York and CTO at the University of Massachusetts' Office of the President.
Patrick is an adjunct instructor at The State University of New York at Albany's College of Computing and Information, and frequently speaks on open-source software, open education, and educational technology. Patrick is the co-founder of EDUCAUSE's "Openness" Constituency Group and served on his local school board from 2014-2018.
Session
Open science depends on open source research software—but most of it isn’t built to last. Drawing on findings from a U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored Apereo Foundation-hosted workshop, this session explores why research software struggles to persist and how to sustain it. We’ll examine funding, practices, and community models, and share practical approaches, including recognizing software as scholarship, supporting as infrastructure, and improving attribution and discoverability, in order to make open science durable, scalable, and truly collaborative.