We are excited to welcome you to our first OSSci community event, which will take place on Thursday, February 16, 5–7.30pm Pacific Time at UC Santa Cruz. You can join in person or remotely via Zoom. To help us explore how we can “ increase research impact through Open Source and Open Data,” we have assembled a fantastic panel for you covering a wide range of areas of expertise—from computer science, to computer hardware, to storage systems, to biomolecular engineering, to climate research and climate action, and, of course, to all kinds of related open-source projects.