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title: "Credits and attribution"
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  - Credits
  - Citation
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# Credits and attribution

## Origin

Foundational Open Science Skills (FOSS) was created by
[CyVerse](https://cyverse.org){target=_blank}, the National Science Foundation–funded
cyberinfrastructure project housed at the University of Arizona, and was
presented with the University of Arizona
[Data Science Institute](https://datascience.arizona.edu){target=_blank}. CyVerse taught FOSS
as a weekly online workshop for several years; the most recent offering
recorded here ran in Fall 2025.

* Original site: [foss.cyverse.org](https://foss.cyverse.org){target=_blank}
* Original repository: [CyVerse-learning-materials/foss](https://github.com/CyVerse-learning-materials/foss){target=_blank}
  (this adaptation starts from commit `86d4cc3` on the `mkdocs` branch)

## Authors and instructors

The FOSS course materials are authored by the instructors who also taught
the lessons:

* **Michele Cosi** — [ORCID 0000-0001-7609-1939](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-1939){target=_blank}
* **Jeffrey K. Gillan** — [ORCID 0000-0002-0731-3048](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0731-3048){target=_blank}
* **Tyson L. Swetnam** — [ORCID 0000-0002-6639-7181](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-7181){target=_blank}

Other
contributors to the source repository over its history include Mary Margaret
Sprinkle, Ryan Bartelme, Michael Culshaw-Maurer, Eli Schillinger, Jason
Williams, and Shashank Yadav.

Lesson 10, *AI Models & Where to Find Them*, is taught from the separate
[GPT 101 workshop](https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/intro-gpt/){target=_blank}. Parts of
[How to Talk to Computers](https://unm-carc.github.io/foss/lessons/03-talk-to-computers/) follow the
[Software Carpentry Unix Shell lesson](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/){target=_blank};
third-party figures are credited in their captions.

## How to cite

Cite the original course:

> Michele Cosi, Jeffrey K. Gillan, Tyson L. Swetnam. (2024, May 2).
> *CyVerse-learning-materials/foss: FOSS 2024 Spring*. Zenodo.
> [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11105956](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11105956){target=_blank}

The [CyVerse Zenodo community](https://zenodo.org/communities/cyverse){target=_blank} holds
citable versions of other CyVerse materials. When you use CyVerse resources,
follow the [CyVerse citation policy](https://cyverse.org/policies/cite-cyverse){target=_blank}.

## Funding

CyVerse is funded by the Arizona Board of Regents and the US National Science
Foundation under Award Numbers
[DBI-0735191](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0735191){target=_blank},
[DBI-1265383](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1265383){target=_blank}, and
[DBI-1743442](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743442){target=_blank}. Any
opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the National Science Foundation.

## License and changes

The original FOSS documentation is Copyright © CyVerse and is available under
the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/){target=_blank}.
This site is derived from that work and is shared under the same license (see
`LICENSE` in the repository). CyVerse does not endorse this adaptation.

The UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) made these changes:

* Rebuilt the site with [Zensical](https://zensical.org){target=_blank} as an Open Knowledge
  Format (OKF) v0.2 bundle, restyled after the
  [CARC documentation](https://carc.unm.edu/docs/){target=_blank}, and reorganized pages
  into Course, Lessons, Capstone, and About sections with new URLs.
* Added provenance frontmatter and a source footer to every adapted page,
  fixed broken links, aligned lesson titles, refreshed a few outdated
  instructions, and added short tips for UNM CARC users.
* Dropped archived lessons, the FOSS+ page, the chatbot widget, and unused
  images. The originals remain in the CyVerse repository.

The full change history is in the [update log](https://unm-carc.github.io/foss/log/).