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CERN's open source heritage: Building blocks to share


Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has long been a driving force in scientific discovery and technological advancement. Beyond its groundbreaking research, CERN has also quietly championed open-source software for decades.

Measure impact: Quantify the influence of CERN’s open-source software on the global community, its adoption in scientific research, and its broader contributions to technology. Beyond CERN, this project also holds broader implications for other institutions and organizations grappling with the challenge of measuring their own open-source contributions. As open-source software becomes an increasingly vital part of technological and scientific progress, understanding its impact is crucial but for society as a whole.

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