Jonathan Starr

Roles

• Executive Director, Open Source Endowment · 2024–present
• Co-Director, SciOS · 2023–present
• Program Manager, Open Source Science Initiative (NumFOCUS) · 2023–2025
• Managing Consultant, DeSci Labs · 2022–present
• Founder & President, The Science Commons Initiative · 2022–2024
• President, LBRY Foundation · 2020–2022
• Core Contributor, Gridcoin · 2013–present

Projects

• PRSM — knowledge graph of open science (28M+ relationships)
• Lettuce — distributed compute for scientific workloads
• Extract — software / dataset / methodology mention extraction from scientific papers
• Citey — browser extension that makes software citation effortless for researchers
• IOSP — Institute of Open Science Practices
• PICoding — researcher + LLM training program
• Gridcoin — an economic system designed for science

Writings

• The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers — scios.tech, 2026
• DeSci for Web3 Builders — Substack, 2023
• Distributed Ledger Technology for Open Scientists — Substack, 2022
• Building Systems of Trustless Science — Medium, 2022
• Gridcoin Whitepaper — 2017

Talks

2026

• OSCON — Funding Open Source as a Public Good
• UW-Madison iSchool — guest lecture on PRSM

2025

• OFA Symposium — One Year Later: Building the Open Source Endowment
• All Things Open — Why Open Source Needs an Endowment
• JuliaCon — speaker
• FOSDEM — Bridging the Gap: Regional OSPO Networks (Community); Building Bridges Between Researchers, Technologists, and Infrastructure (Open Research)

2024

• Open Source Summit NA — Mentorship as an On-ramp to Open Source (panel)
• FOSSY — Mentorship as an On-ramp to Open Source (panel)
• PyData Vermont — Mapping Open Source Science

2023

• Wolfram ChainScience — The Future of Science (keynote)