The TODO Group’s mission is to identify key policy and process choices related to open source management and engagement within organizations and create tools and educational materials that promote best practices. As part of this mission, the TODO Steering Committee gathered on November 18 at the Linux Foundation Member Summit for their annual End-of-Year meeting. The session provided an opportunity to reflect on the group’s strategic goals for the year and outline the priorities for the upcoming year, based on recent studies and open source management trends.
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The talent behind Open Source Program Offices is cross-skilling in specific industry verticals and technologies, according to the 2024 State of OSPOs and Open Source Management report. With 84% of OSPOs involved in managing GenAI infrastructure and 91% of OSPOs involved in managing security issues, these insights underscore the evolving role of open source management talent as not only facilitators of open source adoption but also as pivotal players in driving innovation, ensuring compliance, and mitigating risks in the software supply chain.
A list of OSPO related jobs published during this month!
- 🇩🇪 e-mobil BW GmbH| Open Source Project Manager - Automotive Industry
- 🇺🇸 Red Hat | Principal Program Manager in Raleigh - Technical
- 🇺🇸 Red Hat | Principal Program Manager in Boston - Technical
- 🇺🇸 Amazon | Software Development Engineer - Open Source Program Office
- 🇺🇸 University of California Santa Barbara | Open Source Programs Specialist
Here’s what you missed! A summary of the most recent OSPO-related resources:
- The 2024 Open Source Software Funding Report analyzes organizations fund, contribute to, and otherwise support open source software
- The Census III Study sheds light on the most commonly used FOSS packages at the application library level. It provides an example of how the distributed nature of FOSS requires a multi-party effort to fully understand the value and security of the FOSS ecosystem
- Security Teams, Cloud Engineers, Open Source Managers, and Community Leaders united to address the challenges faced by end-user organizations in transitioning from open source consumption to active contribution at the CNCF OSPOlogy BoF at KubeCon India
- The Shaping the Future of Generative AI report provides valuable insights into how organizations prioritize security and balance it with performance, cost, and privacy in their GenAI adoption journey
- TODO announces the new members who will join in 2025 to serve in the Steering Committee
- Dawn Foster deeps dive into sustaining OSS projects and communities over the long-term in this CHAOSS Practitioner Guides for Healthy & Sustainable OSS Projects Webinar
- Open Source Initiative releases the first stable version of the Open Source AI Definition
Acknowledging contributions made to TODO and OSPOlogy initiatives from our community:
- Thomas Steenbergen, for being recognized as a new TODO Ambassador and for initiating a new OSPO Local Chapter in the Netherlands. See Ambassador List here
- Harmony Elendu, for starting and proposing Contributing guidelines and a Roadmap for the OSS in Business Guide. See PRs here and here
- Jan 30, 2025 CHAOSSCon EU, Hotel Bedford, Brussels, Belgium - CFP closed
- Jan 31, 2025 FOSDEM 2025 Fringe: FOSS license and security compliance tools workshop, Hotel Bedford, Brussels, Belgium - No CFP
- Jan 31, 2025 The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025
- Feb 1, 2025 Linux Foundation FOSDEM Fringe Event - No CFP
- Feb 1-2, 2025 FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium - CFP closed
- March 10-11, 2025 FOSS Backstage, Berlin - CFP closed
If you are interested in joining TODO / OSPOlogy working groups, please find the one that better fits your timezone in the todogroup.org/community calendar. We also host TODO Touchpoint calls (open office hours) to explore common challenges in OSPO day-to-day operations across different organizations.
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✨ Find more OSPO insights within the TODO’s Guides and additional OSPO resources.
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