When it comes to talent management, OSPO professionals appear highly specialized, or their job role seems difficult to categorize into traditional definitions. In fact, one of the many challenges OSPO initiatives are facing is finding the right ways to proactively help staff members plan their career advancement strategy.
Today, the TODO Group launches a new OSPO guide to help open-source programs improve their career development. The guide covers:
How to build a sustainable and rewarding career path for OSPO employees
The TODO group is proud to announce OSPOlogy: A set of OSPO resources made up of monthly meetings, OSPO news, and open discussions with the aim to study the status of Open Source Program Offices. Do you know what’s best? These new resources are open to everyone!
Why launch OSPOlogy? What can the community expect from this initiative? How can they get involved? Keep reading to learn more.
Why launching OSPOlogy?
The TODO Group, together with Linux Foundation Research and The New Stack, is conducting a survey as part of a research project on the prevalence and outcomes of open source programs among different organizations across the globe. OSPOs help set open source strategies and improve an organization’s software development practices. Since 2018, the TODO Group has conducted surveys to assess the state of open source programs across the industry. Today,
The TODO Group would like announce the sharing of a modular OSPO 101 course:
All the content is modularized and licensed under CC-BY 4.0 for your usage: https://github.com/todogroup/ospo101
We would like to thank Guy Martin for helping seed the initial content for the course. The course was converted to friendly markdown format by the TODO Group community, including contributions from Chris Aniszczyk and Greg Back.
If you’re interested in starting an open source program or collaborating with your peers in open source program management, please consider joining the TODO Group!
The TODO Group would like announce first OSPOCon:
The CFP is open and closes Sunday, June 13 at 11:59pm PDT.
If you’re interested in starting an open source program or collaborating with your peers in open source program management, please consider joining the TODO Group!
Open source program offices have become a best practice for companies that rely on open source technologies. As open source program offices have spread, there has been increased interest in applying this best practice in non-corporate contexts. Cities, universities, and other non-corporate organizations are starting to see the benefits of creating a center of competency for open source.
The TODO Group is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that serves as a working group for open source program office members around the world.
The TODO Group is over 5 years old and as an organization has brought together the brightest in the field of open source program management. We have produced a variety of open source program management guides, tools, surveys and even an awesome list to advance the practice.
Today, we are formalizing our definition of what an open source program office (colloquially an OSPO) is based on our years of experience and to ensure we have a common lexicon in the industry when we describe open source programs:
The TODO Group is happy to announce the third annual Open Source Program Management Survey results that examines the prevalence and outcomes of open source programs among the Global Fortune 2000, including the key benefits and barriers to adoption. We have open sourced all of our survey results and graphics.
Key findings include:
Use of open source remains stable, and a new generation of companies are increasing their engagement with open source communities.
At Open Source Summit North America, the TODO Group will lead a virtual track featuring a variety of talks dedicated to open source program management:
Listed below are the talks from the TODO track at OSSNA:
Monday, June 20 2020 Trends in Enterprise Open Source Programs - Alex Williams, The New Stack Building a Secure, Efficient, Compliance OSS Supplychain at Scale - Tan Zhongyi (Jerry Tan), Baidu C in CRM Stands for Community: The DevRel Way - Ana Jimenez Santamaria, Bitergia Growing Participation in Your Company’s OSS Projects - Dawn Foster, VMware Growing Sustainable Contributions Through Ambassador Networks - Alison Yu, Indeed & Shilla Saebi, Comcast How (And Why) to Identify Your Critical OSS Dependencies - Julia Ferraioli, Google How to Grow Your Open Source Project and Become an Umbrella Project - John Mertic, The Linux Foundation Intelligent Open Source - Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia & Jim Jagielski, Uber *Open Source on Purpose: Strategy, Process and Tools to Succeed - Kevin Nelson & Ben Woodring, UnitedHealth Group/Optum BoF: The CHAOSS Project: Answering Specialized Questions About Community Health and Sustainability at Scale - Sean P.
The TODO Group is happy to announce the second annual Open Source Program Management Survey results that examines the prevalence and outcomes of open source programs among the Global Fortune 2000, including the key benefits and barriers to adoption. We have open sourced all of our survey results and graphics.
Key findings include:
Adoption of open source programs and initiatives is widespread and goes beyond early adopters. More than half (52%) of the 2,700 study participants either have a formal or informal program or their company is planning to create one, which is one percentage point less than last year.
