{"id":70939,"date":"2023-02-03T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=70939"},"modified":"2023-02-03T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:00:31","slug":"how-upstream-contributions-power-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=70939","title":{"rendered":"How upstream contributions power scientific research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">How upstream contributions power scientific research<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/users\/cdelia\" class=\"username\">cdelia<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 02\/03\/2023 &#8211; 03:00<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Horizon Europe emphasizes open science and open source technology. The program evolved from Horizon 2020, which provided financial support for research projects that promoted industrial competitiveness, advanced scientific excellence, or solved social challenges through the process of &#8220;open science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Open science is an approach to the scientific process based on open cooperative work, tools, and diffusing knowledge found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/funding-tenders\/opportunities\/docs\/2021-2027\/horizon\/agr-contr\/unit-mga_he_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horizon Europe Regulation and Model Grant Agreement<\/a>. This open science approach aligns with open source principles that provide a structure for such cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The open source principles are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transparency<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Release early, release often<\/li>\n<li>Inclusion<\/li>\n<li>Community orientation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In creating open source software, one of the basic foundational principles of open source software development is an &#8220;upstream first&#8221; philosophy. The opposite direction is &#8220;downstream,&#8221; and upstream and downstream make up the ecosystem for a given software package or distribution. Upstreams are important because that&#8217;s where the source contribution comes from.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedded-resource-list callout-float-right\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item\">Open science and sustainability<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-links field--type-link field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/creating-chris?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">Video series: ChRIS (ChRIS Research Integration System)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.redhat.com\/?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">Explore Red Hat Research projects<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/22\/12\/open-source-sustainability?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">6 articles to inspire open source sustainability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/22\/4\/how-linux-saves-earth?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">How Linux rescues slow computers (and the planet)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/science?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">Latest articles about open science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/education?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">Latest articles about open education<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/sustainability?intcmp=7016000000127cYAAQ\">Latest articles about sustainability<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each upstream is unique, but generally, the upstream is where decisions are made and where the community for a project collaborates for the project&#8217;s objectives. Work done upstream can flow out to many other open source projects. The upstream is also a place where developers can report bugs and security vulnerabilities. If a bug or security flaw is fixed upstream, then every downstream project or product based on the upstream can benefit from that work.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to contribute to the work side-by-side with the rest of the community from which you benefit. By working upstream first, there is the opportunity to vet ideas with the larger community and work together to build new features, releases, content, etc. It&#8217;s far better if all the contributors work together rather than contributors from different companies, universities, or affiliations working on features behind closed doors and then trying to integrate them later. Open source contributions can outlive the research project duration making a more durable impact.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of such contributions, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/609828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORBIT FP7 EU<\/a> project, a feature was developed by Red Hat (lower layers, such as Linux Kernel and QEMU) and Umea University (upper layers, such as LibVirt and OpenStack) and contributed to their related upstream communities. This enabled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.qemu.org\/Features\/PostCopyLiveMigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-copy live migration of VMs<\/a>&#8221; in OpenStack. Even though that was done several years ago, that feature is still available (and independently maintained) in any OpenStack distribution today (as well as plain LibVirt and QEMU).<\/p>\n<p>Just as with software development, research under Horizon Europe promotes the adoption of sharing research outputs as early and widely as possible to citizen science, developing new indicators for evaluation research, and rewarding researchers. With open source upstream communities, the research contributed can extend beyond the research project timeline by feeding into the upstream life cycle. This allows future consumption by companies, universities, governments, etc., to evolve and further secure the research&#8217;s project contribution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icos-project.eu\/impact-of-upstreaming-research-contributions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Impact of Upstreaming Research Contributions<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-article-subhead field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Just as with software development, research under Horizon Europe promotes the adoption of sharing research outputs as early and widely as possible to citizen science, developing new indicators for evaluation research, and rewarding researchers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-lead-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<article class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-caption\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\">  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/OSCDC_Chemistry_OpenScience_520x292_12268077_0614MM.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Open science rocket and beaker\" title=\"Open science rocket and beaker\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden caption field__item\"><span class=\"caption__byline\">Image by: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opensource.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/science\" hreflang=\"en\">Science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/openstack\" hreflang=\"en\">OpenStack<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/tags\/community-management\" hreflang=\"en\">Community management<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden field field--name-field-listicle-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item\">What to read next<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-default-license field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cc-by-sa-4-5.png\" title=\"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.\"><\/a>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.<\/div>\n<article class=\"profile\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/points-and-badges\" class=\"profile__points\">870 points<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"profile__container\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-user-picture field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<article class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-no-captions\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\">  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hawthorn.JPG\" width=\"3840\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"Leslie Hawthorn headshot\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-location field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item\">Germany<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-user-about field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Leslie Hawthorn has spent her career creating and cultivating open source communities. 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