September 19, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
On September 7, the open source community gathered in Shanghai for OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026, bringing together OSPO practitioners, enterprise open source leaders, and community experts to explore how open source program management is evolving in the age of AI.
Held during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China week, and alongside events including AGNTCon + MCPCon China, the summit provided an especially timely setting for these conversations.
September 11, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
Help shape what comes next for OSPOs. As AI changes how organizations build and manage software, bring your experience to the TODO Steering Committee and help turn community ideas into practical guidance, stronger skills, and connections across the open source ecosystem.
Applications for the 2027 TODO Steering Committee are open from September 11 through October 20, 2026, to any TODO community contributor, regardless of affiliation.
Why Join the TODO Steering Committee in 2027?
August 31, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
We’re excited to welcome Swastik Baranwal as the newest TODO Group Ambassador and the first TODO Ambassador based in India. Swastik is an active contributor and leader in the TODO community, serving as a co-chair of the OSS in Business Working Group and contributing to initiatives including OSPOlogy, the TODO website, the OSPO Book, and the TODO newsletter. His ongoing community support helps keep TODO Group initiatives active, relevant, and up to date.
July 20, 2026
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Ibrahim Haddad
(Volvo Cars)
Open source program offices (OSPOs) are now standard infrastructure in large technology companies. Intel, IBM, Google, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, and NVIDIA (among many others) all run mature OSPOs, and the model has spread into automotive, telecom, and financial services. Having worked with these programs for over two decades, I find that whether an OSPO ends up shaping company strategy or just clearing license compliance tickets is usually decided early, by choices about mandate, sponsorship, and where the office reports.
July 14, 2026
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Chris Xie
(Futurewei)
This is one of the topics explored during a show-and-tell session of the TODO Group Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs working group. The session featured OpenFab as one practical example of how provenance, attestations, approval records, and verification could be incorporated into AI-assisted software workflows.
An AI agent opens a pull request in a project supported by an OSPO. The change addresses a real bug, the continuous integration checks pass, and a maintainer merges it.
July 3, 2026
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Geethu Joseph
(CRESYM)
Introduction CRESYM is a non-profit organization active in energy systems research and innovation, where open source plays an important role across many of our projects. As the number of open-source assets, datasets, and collaborative initiatives has grown, we identified the need for a more coordinated approach to open source management.
During the #cresroads2026 event, CRESYM announced the establishment of its Open Source Program Office (OSPO), operationalized through the Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC).
May 15, 2026
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Chris Yang
(vivo)
Introduction The OSPOlogy arrived at the vivo Industrial Park and Global Headquarters in Chang’an, Dongguan city, Guangdong Province On May 15, 2026. Co-hosted by vivo Open Source and the TODO Group ambassador, this open source event brought together open source experts from the Linux Foundation APAC, LFOSSA, OpenChain, ByteDance, Huawei, ZTE, OpenAtom Foundation, and other organizations.
Event Agenda Date & Time: May 15, 2026 — 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: vivo Industrial Park & vivo Global Headquarters in Chang’an, Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
May 5, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
Open Source Program Offices have spent the last decade getting good at scale: scaling compliance reviews, scaling contribution workflows, scaling community engagement across hundreds of projects and thousands of repositories. Agentic AI (LLM‑driven systems that can plan, take action, and operate across tools) raises a new set of questions that OSPOs are being asked to answer on behalf of their organizations. That’s why TODO Group is launching a new Working Group: Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs.
March 24, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
As the TODO Group and LF Research in collaboration with CNCF and FinOps Foundation, will begin work on the 2026 State of OSPO and Open Source Management Survey, we are opening a call for community input to help shape the survey instrument for the 2026 edition.
The State of OSPO and Open Source Management survey is the longest-running open research effort focused specifically on the evolution of Open Source Program Offices and open source management practices across industries and sectors.
February 18, 2026
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TODO Group
(TODO Group)
We’re excited to welcome Dawn Foster as the newest TODO Group Ambassador. Dawn has been a long-standing contributor to the TODO community, helping organize OSPOlogy Live events in Europe and connecting the global OSPO community through her work with the CHAOSS Project.
As a TODO Ambassador, Dawn aims to expand OSPO awareness and community engagement in the United Kingdom and across Europe by organizing local meetups, supporting OSPOlogy events, and continuing to share open source program management insights through writing and speaking.
