At this point, I don't think it'll help you, but about a decade ago, COIN-OR was put together to partially provide an organization that helps give academics a p

At this point, I don't think it'll help you, but about a decade ago, COIN-OR was put together to partially provide an organization that helps give academics a place to peer review and receive credit for the codes they generate (http://www.coin-or.org/ http://www.coin-or.org/). The other reason was to provide a place to host open source optimization codes before things like Github became popular. Now, did it every really live up to that promise? Not as much as I'd like. Honestly, after IBM purchased ILOG, it looked like their support dropped off pretty significantly and IBM was always the largest backer. That and a number of key people retired. In any case, there was just an election, but I know they're still looking for people to help drive the organization forward. As an assistant prof, it's a risk, but perhaps one worth looking at at least in the sense of what some kind of organization with moderate backing looked like that was trying to give academics better credit for their codes.