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New Job – OSHF Executive Director!

I am very, very excited to announce that Nov 3 I will be joining the Open Science Hardware Foundation as their inaugural Executive Director. The OSHF is a US based non-profit with a global community that works to advance open scientific instrumentation to accelerate science and benefit society. We do this through collaboration, policy, advocacy, and community-building along with serving as a fiscal sponsor for projects, all in the service of making the tools of scientific discovery more equitable and available.

This is a really exciting opportunity for me, and speaks to so much of my experience; non-profit governance, open science, and long-standing fascination with hardware. It’s the perfect combination of my professional interests of the last two decades and my personal work in the “maker” world.

I am so excited to be in a position to be working to advance global science activity at such a high level, and to be given the trust of the OSHF community to do so. I’m going to be working with an amazing Board of Directors, as well as alongside a vibrant Gathering of Open Science (GOSH) community, and I don’t think I could have a better set of collaborators. I also expect to be reaching out to a lot of previous contacts in the Open Science and Open Access world, and if you’re interested in learning more, please reach out to me!

The full press release announcing my appointment to the position can be found below, as well as the OSHF’s blog post here.

By griffey

Jason Griffey is the Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. Prior to joining OSHF, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

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