The 2026 Steering Committee (SC) Elections will take place in October 2025. We are now officially opening the call for candidates until October 10, 2025.
Submit your application What is the role of the Steering Committee? In TODO, it is the community that shapes project initiatives. The Steering Committee exists to support the community by helping drive progress. They serve by ensuring that TODO’s strategic goals are aligned with the mission, that these goals are met, and that community voices are heard.
This summary is based on the panel discussion “Open Source and Academic Collaboration: How OSPOs Make It Work” recorded at an Open Source Summit. This panel continued a discussion started at a previous OSSummit, and the group hoped to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for university–industry collaboration around open source.
Motivations from Industry Leslie Hawthorne of Red Hat explained that her company has a long history of working with academic institutions on open-source projects because it helps with talent development and product adoption.
This is a summary post from the BoF session that took place during an Open Source Summit and explores how Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) handle the intersection of AI, compliance, and community building.
Ashley Wolf, David Hirsch, Natalie Vlatko, Sachin Bhaka, and Ana Jiménez Santamaría at BoF session – open source in AI: Where OSPOs make it Work
Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Senior Project Manager at the Linux Foundation’s TODO Group and PyTorch Foundation, opened the session by sharing key insights from the latest studies on open source management.
The TODO Group members from Mercado Libre and Cuemby OSPO participated in KCD Colombia 2025 🇨🇴, showcasing how OSPO practices can enable sustainable Cloud Native adoption at one of the most relevant Cloud Native community events in the region. TODO OSPO Ambassadors Fernando and Ángel facilitated an OSPOlogy LATAM session as part of the event program.
The mission of OSPOlogyLive LATAM is to encourage the promotion and adoption of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within organizations across Latin America, including Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and more.
Next week at OSSummit Europe, several TODO members will be leading activities on AI prompting and workflows for OSPO, open source strategy, project health analytics and metrics, security management, compliance automation, and more. Here is an overview of the on-site activities happening
Monday, August 25 11:20 CEST | The State of OSPOs and OSS Management 2025 Research Findings – Ana Jiménez Santamaría (Linux Foundation)
13:30 CEST | Panel: Open Source as a Path for a Competitive Automotive Industry – Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH), Masato Endo (Toyota), Carl-Eric Mols (Volvo Cars), Julian Schregle (Mercedes-Benz)
The TODO Group, in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is thrilled to announce that the OSPO Book is now available for download as a PDF, and will be available in print at OSSummit Europe this August!
Whether your organization is using, contributing to, or building open source software, this book is designed to help your organization strategically manage open source operations with guidance from OSPO practitioners around the world.
We’re excited to welcome Alin Jerpelea as the newest TODO Group Ambassador. Alin has been an active part of the TODO community for several years, consistently sharing open source knowledge, facilitating OSPO collaboration, and contributing to the growth of our global network.
As a TODO Ambassador, Alin aims to strengthen and expand the OSPO network in Sweden by organizing local meetups, promoting open source management best practices, and sharing OSPO insights at events across Europe
This week at OSSummit NA, the TODO Group hosted a lively “Ask Anything” session with members of the Steering Committee: Brittany Istenes (FINOS), Natali Vlatko (Cisco), Georg Kunz (Ericsson), Ashley Wolf (GitHub), Stephen Augustus (Bloomberg), and Annania Melaku (F5).
Insights Shared and Community Questions The panel opened the session, surfacing valuable trends, challenges, and practical approaches, including insights drawn from our current state of practice:
OSPOs are diversifying: As of 2025, Open Source Program Offices are no longer monolithic; they’re evolving into embedded, specialized units tailored to business domains such as AI, security, developer experience, and legal compliance Beyond responsible open source usage, OSPOs provide governance as guidance, enabling developers to safely adopt and contribute to open source while ensuring compliance and alignment with business goals Security is a central pillar: OSPOs play a critical role in software supply chain integrity for effective SBOM management.
The TODO Group is thrilled to share a new resource: The Lifecycle of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO): From Inception to Strategic Pivoting, originally authored by Dr. Ibrahim Haddad, who has generously donated this work as a TODO community resource to seed a collaborative, shared framework that OSPO practitioners can evolve together.
This whitepaper provides a framework to help organizations understand and evolve their OSPO, from grassroots beginnings and executive sponsorship, to scaling contributions, integrating open source into core strategy, and reorienting toward new technologies like AI.
We’re excited to share that the 8th annual State of OSPOs and Open Source Management Survey is live! We are thankful to the survey sponsors who make this edition possible, and to our amazing distribution partners 🙏 This year’s theme explores how your organization manages open source and how OSPOs influence key areas like AI, cloud-native, software security, and regulatory readiness. Moreover, there’s a new section
