CROSS Events

Citation

Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), UC Santa Cruz. “Events.” Web page, cross.ucsc.edu, last modified Mar. 18, 2026. https://cross.ucsc.edu/symposium/. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

• CROSS once held an annual Research Symposium. “Since 2025 we have focused our efforts on the University of California Open Source Summit (UC Open) held in the spring.”
• The event moved from one campus to the UC system level.

Background

See CROSS. The symposium was part of “the highly popular UCSC Systems Oktoberfest, first held in 2009”.

Key claims

• “CROSS previously sponsored an annual Research Symposium to showcase open source projects with plenary overview sessions and domain-specific workshops”.
• “Since 2025 we have focused our efforts on the University of California Open Source Summit (UC Open) held in the spring.”
• The current agenda is on the UC Santa Cruz OSPO website.

Evidence and method

The center’s own page. Short (224 words).

Limits

• No dates, attendance or sponsors for UC Open.