FOSS Backstage 2025

Cailean Osborne

Dr Cailean Osborne is a senior researcher at the Linux Foundation, where he leads research projects on diverse open source trends and policy topics, from emerging funding models to open source AI. Cailean has a PhD in Social Data Science from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and in 2023-2024 he was a visiting researcher at the Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab at Peking University in Beijing, China. Previously, Cailean worked in AI policy at the UK Government and was a UK government delegate at the OECD’s Global Partnership on AI and the Council of Europe’s Committee on AI. In his freetime, he is a contributor to the scikit-learn and CHAOSS communities.


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Session

03-10
14:35
30min
Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS
Dawn Foster, Mirko Boehm, Cailean Osborne, Paul Sharratt

Introducing a practical toolkit for measuring the impacts of public funding for FOSS development, based on firsthand insights from EU and German funding initiatives and methodologies developed by the CHAOSS project. Learn how to assess social, economic, and technological outcomes for evidence-based FOSS funding strategies in the public interest.

Economics
Auditorium