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Megan Forbes is the Program Manager for the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) at Johns Hopkins University, where she helps open source software projects build the communities, practices, and funding models they need to last. Forbes is currently leading development of the Sloan Foundation–funded Research Software Support Network (RSSN), which connects researchers across Hopkins with the expertise and services they need to develop, sustain, and share high-quality research software. Forbes consults with open source projects across campus on sustainability planning, co-leads the US-wide Open Source is Tech Transfer community of practice and is active in the Community for University and Research Institutions OSPOs (CURIOSS). Before joining Hopkins, Megan directed the It Takes a Village project at Lyrasis, an international effort that produced a widely used guidebook and toolkit for open source sustainability. Forbes holds an M.A. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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