November 18, 2025
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The TODO Group’s OSPOCon track at Open Source Summit + AI_dev Japan 2025 will bring together OSPO practitioners, open source program leaders, and ecosystem partners to share concrete experiences on open source governance, compliance, and strategy. Over two days of programming in Tokyo, OSPOCon will highlight how organizations in Japan and worldwide are building and evolving Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), supporting developers, and working with communities and regulators.
Sessions: Monday, December 8 Keynote Panel 11:15–11:45 JST – OSPOjp: Ways To Level Up OSPO Stages With Knowledge and Strategies From Local Meetup Japan
November 16, 2025
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The TODO Group is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 Steering Committee election, selecting members who will serve from 2026 to 2028. Please join us in welcoming the new members who will join the Steering Committee on January 1, 2026.
Ashley Wolf Director of GitHub’s Open Source Programs Office
Over the past year, Ashley has seen how the group’s guides, the OSPO Book, AMAs, and community calls help organizations at very different stages of maturity learn from each other and avoid reinventing the wheel.
October 13, 2025
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The TODO Group’s mission is to identify key policy and process choices related to open source management and engagement within organizations and to create tools and educational materials that promote best practices.
We are excited to introduce the 2026 Steering Committee (SC) candidates. Get to know who’s running, what they bring to the table, and their vision for TODO’s future.
2026 Election Format This year’s election will include three elected seats and one appointed seat.
October 8, 2025
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On October 2, 2025, Japan’s Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a government agency operated under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, hosted a public briefing for its upcoming “OSPO Level-1” corporate workshop, delivered in cooperation with the Linux Foundation’s TODO Group. The session explained how organizations in Japan can get started to establish open source governance bodies in their organization and how IPA will support both internal divisions and Japanese organizations on that journey.
September 11, 2025
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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.
September 8, 2025
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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.
September 2, 2025
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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.
August 18, 2025
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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)
July 29, 2025
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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.
