UCL · samcunliffe · Sep 15, 2026 · Sep 11, 2026 · Sep 11, 2026 · Sep 11, 2026
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ jobs:
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
 
   link-checker:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: write
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: build
     steps:
@@ -72,6 +75,23 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # nice to check a few specific root-level markdown files (README.md etc) for valid links,
           # but the main thing to check is the rendered website (in the `open-source` directory)
-          args: "--github-token ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} -- README.md CONTRIBUTING.md open-source/"
+          args: "--github-token ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} --root-dir . -- README.md CONTRIBUTING.md open-source/"
           fail: true
           jobSummary: true
+          output: lychee-output.md
+      - name: Change the output title to "Link checker summary"
+        if: failure()
+        run: sed -i '1s/.*/# Link checker summary/' lychee-output.md
+      - name: Add Link Checker summary comment
+        uses: marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment@5770ad5eb8f42dd2c4f34da00c94c5381e49af88 # v3.0.5
+        if: (github.event_name == 'pull_request') && failure()
+        with:
+          header: link-checker-summary
+          recreate: true
+          path: lychee-output.md
+      - name: A nice comment when/if the link checker passes
+        uses: marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment@5770ad5eb8f42dd2c4f34da00c94c5381e49af88 # v3.0.5
+        if: (github.event_name == 'pull_request') && success()
+        with:
+          header: link-checker-summary
+          message: "The link checker has passed successfully :tada:! No broken links were found."
diff --git a/_data/events.yml b/_data/events.yml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
   location: 90 High Holborn, Function Space
 - title: First contribution to open-source software workshop
   organiser: ARC
-  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/jul/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship
+  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-innovation/advanced-research-computing/digital-research-community-events-and-support/events/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship-2025
   date: 2025-07-15
   time: "13:30"
   duration:

diff --git a/_data/ospo/events.yml b/_data/ospo/events.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 202507OSSfirst:
   date: 2025-07-15
   title: "First contribution to open-source software workshop"
-  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/jul/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship
+  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-innovation/advanced-research-computing/digital-research-community-events-and-support/events/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship-2025
   event: ARC Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship
-  event_url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/jul/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship
+  event_url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-innovation/advanced-research-computing/digital-research-community-events-and-support/events/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship-2025
   results: ✅
   # FIXME: add [data]
 202411TTW:

diff --git a/_data/ospo/proposals.yml b/_data/ospo/proposals.yml
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@
   title: Open Research Leadership Development - Preparing researchers to nurture healthy communities.
   link: 
   funding: UCL Research Culture Seed Funds
-  link_call: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/strategy-environment/research-culture-ucl/get-involved/research-culture-seed-fund
+  link_call: 
   result: ❌
diff --git a/_data/ospo/submissions.yml b/_data/ospo/submissions.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
   title: "What is an OSPO and why do we need one in UCL?"
   link: 
   event: "ARC's Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship"
-  event_link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2024/jun/festival-digital-research-scholarship
+  event_link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-innovation/advanced-research-computing/digital-research-community-events-and-support/events/festival-digital-research-scholarship-2024
   result: >-
     ✅ 
 202406UCLOSci:

diff --git a/lychee.toml b/lychee.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,30 @@
-accept = [200, 403, 415, 429]
+accept = [200, 202, 403, 415, 429, 999]
 verbose = "info"
 no_progress = true
 exclude = [
+    'https://www.softwareheritage.org',       # Their SSL certificate is not trusted but the link works (currently!)
     '(?x).*profiles.ucl.ac.uk.*/thumbnail',   # People may not have a profile image.
     '(?x).*github-readme-stats.vercel.app.*', # Returns 503 for some reason
     '(?x).rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/*',          # Article does exist but sometimes returns strange codes: 202, 403...
     '(?x).*127.0.0.1.*',                      # This is a local address
     '(?x).*liveuclac.sharepoint.com/sites/*', # SharePoint pages will need UCL credentials.
+    # Several annoying false positives:
+    #
+    # Some parts of the upstream theme cause errors because they don't prepend https. We don't fix the theme because 
+    # it will be updated to the new branding soon. So just suppress all of this for now. Remove when the theme is
+    #  updated. All social media links on every theme-rendered page are like this!!
+    '(?x).*cdn.ucl.ac.uk/*',
+    '(?x)file://(?:.*/)?www\.ucl\.ac\.uk(?:/|$)',
+    '(?x).*shop.ucl.ac.uk',
+    '(?x).*www.flickr.com/photos/uclnews',
+    '(?x).*www.facebook.com/uclofficial',
+    '(?x).*twitter.com/ucl',
+    '(?x).*www.instagram.com/ucl',
+    '(?x).*www.youtube.com/ucltv',
+    '(?x).*soundcloud.com/uclsound',
+    # Aaand the favicon and several image paths are broken in the upstream theme, so just ignore these too.
+    '(?x).*favicon-152.png',
+    '(?x).*assets/images/hero-image-taught-desktop.jpg', # doesn't exist: theme bug
+    '(?x).*indigo/images/search-sprite.png',             # doesn't exist: theme bug
+    '(?x).*assets/css/owl.video.play.png',
 ]
diff --git a/ospo/business-case.md b/ospo/business-case.md
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ This puts UCL in an exceptional position to provide the support that open source
 An Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) is a body within an organisation to look after its open source strategy and operations.
 OSPOs have been widely adopted in the commercial world[^OSPO-commerce], governmental institutions and world organisations[^OSPO-public].
 More recently, various academic and research institutions have also found the value of having OSPOs.
-Focusing on the latest, we can find research centres such as [CERN][ospo-cern] or [Space Telescope Science Institute][ospo-stsci] and universities like [Johns Hopkins][ospo-jhu] (the first one, since 2019), [University of California][ospo-uc] and [Carnegie Mellon University][ospo-cmu] in the USA, or European examples like [Trinity College Dublin][ospo-tcd] in Ireland, [University of Luxembourg][ospo-snt], and [ETH Zurich][ospo-eth] in Switzerland.
+Focusing on the latest, we can find research centres such as [CERN][ospo-cern] or [Space Telescope Science Institute][ospo-stsci] and universities like [Johns Hopkins][ospo-jhu] (the first one, since 2019), [University of California][ospo-uc] and [Carnegie Mellon University][ospo-cmu] in the USA, or European examples like Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, [University of Luxembourg][ospo-snt], and [ETH Zurich][ospo-eth] in Switzerland.
 
 <!-- Footnotes -->
 [^OSPO-commerce]: <!-- vale proselint.Annotations = NO --> The two biggest OSPO networks in industry are: [OSPO Alliance][ospo-alliance] supported by the [Eclipse Foundation][eclipse] and [TODO Group][ospo-todogrp] supported by the [Linux Foundation][LF]. A [report published in 2024 by the TODO Group][state-of-ospo-2024] found that 77% of large organisations have an OSPO (DOI: 10.70828/FXMR3018). <!-- vale proselint.Annotations = NO -->
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ A more detailed definition of an academic OSPO can be found in [Young, et al. (2
 [ospo-snt]: https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/
 <!-- FIXME: STSci appears on archived OSPO++ page, but no link -->
 [ospo-stsci]: http://www.stsci.edu/
-[ospo-tcd]: https://www.tcd.ie/innovation/for-trinity-innovators/open-source-programme-office/
 [ospo-todogrp]: https://todogroup.org/
 [ospo-uc]: https://ucospo.net/
 [ospo-un]: https://undp.org/digital
@@ -334,7 +333,8 @@ This should cover licensing possibilities as well as business models.
 <!-- end footnotes -->
 
 <!-- links -->
-[reports]: ./documents.html#yearly-reports
+[reports]: https://google.com
+<!-- ^^ to be fixed in #90 ./documents.html#yearly-reports -->
 [lug]: https://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/linux/
 [Latug]: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3A4669171c71b74d9ea23c30f7e3b9195a%40thread.skype/conversations?groupId=2435df9e-6f6e-4f1e-8f4c-e048dcabb2b8&tenantId=1faf88fe-a998-4c5b-93c9-210a11d9a5c2
 [PCoC]: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3A85c78bc816764ae5982ae7b4997b2f47%40thread.skype/conversations?groupId=a3786c11-7532-44a2-a8eb-547382638405&tenantId=1faf88fe-a998-4c5b-93c9-210a11d9a5c2

diff --git a/ospo/documents/00-preOSPO/20240627-OSSBreakfastClub.md b/ospo/documents/00-preOSPO/20240627-OSSBreakfastClub.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The university could also collaborate with schools to promote open source within
 In UCL there are well established collaborations with London society. For example, [The Barlett](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/) (e.g., [resilience in London during COVID](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/case-studies/2023/jun/mapping-stories-community-struggles-and-resilience-london-face-covid-19), or [missions-driven government for public services](https://medium.com/iipp-blog/professor-mariana-mazzucato-and-cllr-georgia-gould-leader-of-camden-council-write-about-the-need-ebd5ec2841d2) in Camden with the [IIPP](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose)).
 Working with them to include the OSS component will also have an impact.
 
-[OpenUK State of the Open 2023](https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/state-of-open-the-uk-in-2023/stateofopen-2023/) mentions the [UK Government had an open source procurement toolkit since 2011](https://www.theguardian.com/government-computing-network/2011/nov/02/cabinet-office-open-source-procurement-toolkit) (though [withdrawn in 2014](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-source-procurement-toolkit)). These guides could help to promote the procurement of OS software within the university.
+[OpenUK State of the Open 2023](https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/state-of-open-the-uk-in-2023/) mentions the [UK Government had an open source procurement toolkit since 2011](https://www.theguardian.com/government-computing-network/2011/nov/02/cabinet-office-open-source-procurement-toolkit) (though [withdrawn in 2014](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-source-procurement-toolkit)). These guides could help to promote the procurement of OS software within the university.
 Also, OpenUK is pushing to enable AI openness through their [open manifesto](https://openuk.uk/openmanifesto/), which an OSPO in UCL could also show its support.
 
 There are funding opportunities for many of this activities. Some are: [SLOAN](https://sloan.org/), [OSCARS](https://oscars-project.eu/), and collaborations with private sector.