TODO Seats New Steering Committee Members

We are excited to announce the composition of 2024 Steering Committee (SC) on the Linux Foundation’s TODO Group project. The 2024 SC includes elected members: Ashley Wolf from GitHub (returning), Stephen Augustus from Cisco (returning), Nik Peters from Porsche (new) and appointed members: Brittany Istenes from Fannie Mae (new).

The Role of the OSPO in AI Compliance Programs

Joanna Lee (Linux Foundation), Van Lindberg (OSPOCo), Christine Abernathy (F5), Georg Kunz (Ericsson) and Ashley Wolf (GitHub) discuss the establishment of internal generative AI compliance programs and explore how and where OSPOs can provide support.

Guide of the month

The outbound open source guide is about how to contribute to or to launch an open source project (also called “outbound open source”) as a company. It aims to describe a complete and lean process, that can be implemented in companies of any size (large but also small or medium sized organizations)

OSPO Jobs

A list of OSPO-related jobs published this month!

• 🇺🇸 SAS OSPO | Open Source Program Manager
• 🇺🇸 Nava | Open Source Developer Evangelist
• 🇧🇪 OFE | Open Source Policy Advisor

Industry News and Articles

Here’s what you missed! A summary of the most recent OSPO-related resources:

• Blog: OSPO Simple FAQ Update - Japanese & English
• Discussion: Experiences in the governance of open source projects developed by government itself and promoted for and in actual reuse by others
• Discussion: Looking for some real-world documentation/experiences on how OSPOs handle license-tracking in third-party dependencies
• Discussion: What words do folks use in their OSPO to describe inbound and outbound activities/metrics?
• Announcement: End-of-Year Steering Committee Summary
• Announcement: The Japanese OSPO Local Meetup quarterly report
• Announcement: Meet our TODO Local Ambassadors
• Announcement: English version of 'What is OSPO?' manga, by Cybertrust Japan
• Working Group Meetings: 22nd Japan OSPO Local Meetup

Conferences and Call for Papers

• 🇺🇸 OSSummit NA, Seattle | CFP ends January 14
• 🇧🇪 FOSDEM, Brussels | February 3-4, 2024
• 🇬🇧 State of OpenCon, London | February 6-7
• 🇳🇱 OSPOlogyLive Apeldoorn | February 28 - 29
• 🇩🇪 FOSS Backstage, Berlin | March 2024

✨ Find more OSPO insights within the TODO’s Guides and additional OSPO resources

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