New study highlights the business value of OSPOs: Why organizations create sustain and expand Open Source Program Offices? This report weaves in perspectives from OSPO leaders around the world and from various industries on what makes an OSPO valuable, how they measure that value, and how they expect their open source initiatives to evolve with their organization. Whether forming an OSPO for the first time or working with an established one, readers will come away with recommendations to communicate, measure, and navigate the different value propositions of the OSPO. The report is available in the Linux Foundation research page.
OSPO Survey Call For Partners: TODO is preparing for the 2023 OSPO survey to study the evolution and status of OSPOs. We're inviting organizations and open source projects to become partners for this upcoming survey, and we'd love to hear from you! This year, the survey aims to focus on insights on the following topics Adoption and impact of OSPOs across sectors and industries Balancing openness and control in OSPOs Security and sustainability of open source ecosystems To learn more about how to become a partner, please read the announcement in the TODO blog.
OSPO BoF at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: TODO is hosting an OSPO BoF + Happy hour meet-up at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 for OSPO professionals. Join us to network with open source peers involved in Open Source Program Offices and enjoy some appetizers & drinks while taking a break from the action! Seats are limited, so make sure to fill out the form to secure your spot.
A list of OSPO related jobs published during this month!
- GitHub - DPG Open Source Community Manager Program
- Hedera - Chief Open Source Officer
- Linux Foundation - Standards Program Manager
- CISAgov - Open Source Software Security Lead
Are you an organization hiring OSPO proffessionals? Read the last article "Hire My Team" by Duane O'Brien, former OSPO lead at Indeed
Do you want to add additional OSPO jobs in this section? Please submit a Pull Request in our OSPOlogy repo
Hereβs what you missed! A summary of the most recent OSPO related resources:
- GitHub has open sourced its own OSPO policies, tools, and guides to help other OSPOs get started
- Guide To Set Up A University Open Source Programs Office
- OSPO Mind Map Chinese and Japanese versions
- OSPO Local Community Japan is working on a FAQ for beginners who want to create OSPO
- The EU OSOR creates a guide to set up OSPOs in public admins
- OSPO Summit China Recap
- January OSPO Local Meetup from Helsinki Summary
- How are OSPOers handling AI-generated or AI-assisted code contributions to the projects they maintain?
- Strategy about the release internal projects (innersource) to open source
Explore the 100+ organizations adopting OSPOs, tools used by OSPOs and the 90+ organizations that supports TODO as General Members or OSPO Associates in the OSPO Landscape Project.
- VIVO is added as OSPO adopter and becomes TODO General Member
- Bytedance is added as OSPO Adopter and becomes TODO General Member
- Progressive Insurance is added as OSPO Adopter and becomes a TODO General Member
- SAS Institute is added as OSPO Adopter and becomes TODO General Member
- LINE is added as OSPO Adopter
- Alliander becomes TODO General Member
Tool of the Month: Thanks.dev
Thanks.dev offers a streamlined experience for organizations looking to sponsor maintainers. The platform crawls your code dependencies via a GitHub integration, and distribute money algorithmically. Helping to support the open source code we all depend on. Learn more.
- CFP for GUADEC 2023, CFP Closes: Mar 27, 2023, 8:00 PM (UTC)
- CFP for OSSummit + OSPOCon Europe 2023, CFP Closes: Tuesday, May 2 at 11:59 PM PDT
- Open Source Initiative License Clinic 2023, April 4th, 2023. In person in Washington, DC. United States.
If you are interested to join TODO work days, please find the one that better fit with your timezone in the todogroup.org/community calendar
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