Join the AMER & EMEA session, on Monday, March 24 where Yaya Xia from Ant Group will present OSPO strategy and practices based on data-driven methods. Sign up here
Presentations will be followed by updates from the TODO working group on the OSS in Business Guide and the OSPO Book, concluding with an open forum under Chatham House rules.
Join us for the fifth OSPOlogyLive Europe edition, hosted by the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency. This collaborative space brings together public administration, academia, and industry professionals to engage in collaborative problem-solving, strategic discussions, and knowledge sharing focused on open source management and Open Source Program Offices in Europe.
As part of its open source program office efforts, Block has released Codename Goose, an open-source, non-commercial AI agent framework. Link
2025 State of OSPO and Open Source Management Survey Launched: This year's study aims to delve deeper into areas such as AI and Generative AI systems management, security issue handling, and cross-industry collaboration to evaluate the openness of AI models. Link
Georgia Tech OSPO Provides Guidance on Open Source AI Models. Link
Johns Hopkins University Expands Open Source Project Catalog. Link
Most recent presentations on Open Source Management and OSPO:
"Bridging the Gap: Regional OSPO Networks as Catalysts for Open Source and Local Community Collaboration" explores how regional Open Source Program Office networks can serve as catalysts for inclusive innovation. Link
Andrew Wafaa (ARM) will present "The OSPO Has a New Sibling - AIO" at the TODO Group track at Linux Foundation Member Summit to explore the emergence of the Artificial Intelligence Office (AIO) alongside the traditional Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to address AI-specific challenges and governance. Link
Richard Sikang Bian and Florian Fan (Ant Group) will present "Use OSS To Serve OSS - Ant OSPO's Trial Approach on Dev Tooling and OSPO Infra" to discuss Ant Group's Open Source Program Office initiatives in developing internal tooling and infrastructure to support and enhance open source contributions. Link
Emma Irwin (Microsoft) will present "Teaching Open Source Risk and Investment: A Framework" to introduce a structured approach to educating organizations about assessing and managing risks associated with open source investments. Link
Andrew Lee Rubinger (Block) will present "Fostering an Open Source Culture Inside of an Organization" to share strategies and practices for cultivating a thriving open source culture within corporate environments to drive innovation and collaboration. Link
OSPOers of the Month
Acknowledging contributions made to the TODO and OSPOlogy initiatives from our community:
Alin Jepelea for presenting "SBOM implementation journey for the Apache NuttX RTOS" during the February 13 at Touchpoint call
Nico Rikken for presenting "Automated Checks Before Publishing Open Source" on February 27 at the Touchpoint call
Sujata Tibrewala for presenting "How to use Open Source to Grow your organization" on February 24 at the Touchpoint call
Georg Kunz, Natali Vlatko, and Stephen Augustus for moderating the Touchpoints Discussions / Open Forum sessions
Marcel Kuzman and Harmony Elendu for moderating the WG updates by providing updates on the OSS in Business guide working group efforts at Touchpoint calls
Thomas Steenbergen and Leon Roeleveld for leading the efforts to make OSPOlogyLive Amsterdam 2025 possible. See program and organizing committee here
Brittany Istenes and Stephen Augustus for hosting a TODO Ask Me Anything Session for attendees at the Lnux Foundation Member Summit. See program here
Alice Sowerby and Fernando Correa for leading the community efforts and project management of the OSPO Book Working Group to help build a physical version of the v1.0 book.
Alice Sowerby, Fernando Correa, and Jan van den Berg for working on a written standard to support authors and reviewers in producing consistent content for the OSPO book. See the issue here.
Marco Carvalho and Fernando Correa for initiating efforts to create a Brazilian Portuguese translation of the OSPO book. See the issue here.
Stephen Augustus for contributing to the Awesome OSS Management repo by fixing redirected links, removing inaccessible projects, and removing projects that are explicitly archived or in archive orgs. See PRshere andhere.
Swastik Baranwal for contributing to the Awesome OSS Management repo, the OSPO newsletter, and the OSS in Business initiative. See PRs hereand here.
Upcoming Conferences and Call for Papers
March 6-9, 2025: SCaLE 22x - Pasadena, California, USA - CFP closed
August 26-28, 2025 GopherCon - CFP due 3 March, 2025
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