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Open Science Labs

The community open to science and technology.

Open Science Labs is a global community dedicated to creating an open space for teaching, learning, and sharing information about open science and computational tools. Our community develops tools that address real-world problems and collaborates with other projects and workgroups to improve technology and create international opportunities for our community. Although our focus may seem broad, we initially prioritize supporting Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who often face computational challenges in their work. We recognize that many colleagues in scientific fields may not be familiar with programming languages, computational libraries, version control systems, databases, DevOps, and other computational tools. Therefore, we aim to provide a safe and open space for individuals to learn and share their knowledge. Our community is open to everyone, including students, professors, and industry professionals, as we believe that the challenges and technologies used in these fields are frequently similar, if not the same (in many cases).

  • python
  • javascript
  • llvm
  • c++
  • docker
  • web
  • ai
  • devops
  • devtools
  • open-science

Project ideas

22 ideas on its 2026 ideas page.

  1. What Incubation Is For
  2. What OSL May Provide
  3. Google Summer of Code and Limited Programs
  4. Acknowledging OSL Incubation
  5. Incubation Fit Checklist
  6. How OSL Reviews Projects
  7. Graduation Review Workflow
  8. Scientific Python Projects and pyOpenSci
  9. Scientific R Projects and rOpenSci
  10. Equivalent Review for Out-of-Scope Scientific Projects
  11. Automated Incubation Checks
  12. At-Risk, Pause, Removal, and Archive Workflow
  13. Graduated Projects Outside OSL
  14. Responsibilities and Limits
  15. Google Summer of Code and Limited Programs
  16. Acknowledging OSL Affiliation
  17. Affiliation Fit Checklist
  18. Automated Maintenance Checks
  19. Review and Removal Workflow
  20. Limits and Responsibilities
  21. Affiliation Request Workflow
  22. Boundaries of Affiliation

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2025, 2 years. Projects per year: '25: 4, '26: 7.

On GitHub

3 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Jupyter Notebook (1), Python (1).

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "Open Science Labs" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Open Science Labs"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Open Science Labs"
or ask your assistant:
"Which Open Science Labs repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.