Faculty and Staff

LibreCorps is our faculty and staff-led, full-time, student-driven initiative that provides support for Open Work around the world and on-campus. Some of our external work includes:

• Mentorship of UNICEF Ventures cohorts on Open infrastructure, pipeline, and practices
• Working with Red Hat and Ralph Bean to build Fedora Badges
• Contributed to Open APS, Night Scout, and more

Internally we’ve been focused on our Open@RIT Fellows work supporting over 21 faculty and staff.
If you have a project that you think can benefit from LibreCorps support, either by contract or as part of a grant, send an email to sj@mail.rit.edu to discuss it.

Representing and defending open work during the evaluation process for tenure and promotion can be difficult. Our article Making the Case for Open Work in Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion can help you get on the right track. We’ve also included further reading to help you ensure your work receives the proper recognition it deserves.

Learn more about Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion

Understand

• The impacts of those requirements on your work
• What it means for licensing, disseminating, and distributing it.
• Internal Champions and why they are often required by Industry Foundations
• How to find others doing open work in your area
• How to join and contribute to an existing community
• How to engage with programs that supply funded interns to Open projects.

Act

• Design outreach and support materials as well as campaigns
• Find tools and infrastructure that will best support your Open Work communities
• Find Internal Champions that are often required by Industry Foundations
• Design processes and resources to help build and sustain your community
• Build and manage teams to develop your projects

If all externally funded work needs to be Open, the clearer and more intentional you can be in writing a proposal that emphasizes your ability to be impactful and sustainable around your Open Work the better your edge when you’re up for consideration.

At a minimum, Open@RIT can give you pointers on the language for that section of your proposal. Need more assistance? Just as you write external evaluators into your grants, you can write the services of Open@RIT into your grants to develop your Open dissemination plans, frameworks, pipelines, the creation and even the management and sustainability of the community of Open researchers and contributors you hope to develop once you’re funded.