Learning Space
Touchpoint meetings serve as a vendor-neutral space to discuss day-to-day challenges and develop best practices for people managing open source operations and strategy (AKA Open Source Program Offices) to integrate into the organization’s overall infrastructure. We invite guests to deliver a brief presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Guests include:
- Representatives from open source projects and initiatives: including independent maintainers, core contributors and project managers
- Representatives from Foundations: including General managers, CTOs, and community managers from small to large ecosystems like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Source Security Foundation, OpenChain, InnerSource Commons, LF Energy, CHAOSS, LF AI & Data Foundation, and more
- Organization’s stakeholders: including C-level managers like CTOs
- Members of an OSPO: including open source ambassadors, developer relations professionals, project managers or directors
This collective effort help people to articulate the value of the OSPO work and gather insights to better integrate open source into the organization’s infrastructure, worker’s culture and operations.
There are two kinds of Touchpoints every month, with content being cross-shared between both sessions. Conversations are governed under Chatham House Rules.
| Next Thursday Touchpoint | Next Friday Touchpoint | |
|---|---|---|
| Theme ⭐️ | Open Source Software Composition Analysis Tools, OSPO functions in AI and more | OSPO metrics tooling, InnerSource integration and more |
| Date 📆 | April, Thursday 25th - 2:00 to 3:00 pm CEST | April, Friday 12 - 5:30 to 6:30 pm CEST |
| Guests 🙋♀️ | Mirko (LF Europe), (SCANOSS), Lumi (Aiven) | |
| Agenda 📝 | Thursday Agenda | Friday Agenda |
| Attendees 👩💻 | Broader OSPO / TODO Community and General Members | General Members |
Past Meeting Notes - Touchpoint calls
Past Recordings - OSPOlogy Webinars 2023 and 2022
🌻 OSPOs Fostering FOSS Sustainability Through Collaborative Funding
⚠️ Layoffs and Hiring Freezes in OSPOs: Challenges and Open Issues
🏛 A Legal Guide to Open Works in Public Administration from Xunta de Galicia OSPO
🧩 How organizations manage change for open source adoption with OSPOs
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Contributor Space
There are currently three (3) active working groups on concrete areas of focus:
| OSPO Book Working Group | CHAOSS OSPO Metrics | OpenChain AI Compliance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope | Build a body of knowledge to better understand the role of OSPOs, and share guides and best practices for effectively establishing and managing open source operations | Define useful metrics; Ease implementation with CHAOSS tooling; Set up best practices and metrics standards for OSPOs | Open discussions about AI compliance programs and ways to build trust in the open source AI supply chain |
| Meeting Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes |
| Working Repo | Working repo | Working repo | Na |
| Communication Channels | Mailing List | TODO Slack #wg-ospometrics-chaoss | Mailing List |
| Moderators & Chairs | Chairs | Matt and Gary | Shane |
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TODO is one of the pillars of the open source management and operations best practices ecosystem at the Linux Foundation. We work with sister projects like SPDX (Software Bill Of Material automation tooling and best practices), OpenSSF (Security best practices, training and tools), OpenChain (Process Management Standards), FINOS (best practices for financial services) and CHAOSS (Project / Community health and sustainability metrics). For more info, visit the LF Management & Best Practices Portal, where communities of Best Practice converge.
Bellow, people can find the OpenSSF, OpenChain, and CHAOSS Calendars