Learning Space
Our Community Calls - TODO Touchpoints
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 welcome volunteers from the TODO community and other projectsto deliver a brief presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Example of volunteers are:
- 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 open source management through OSPO and gather insights to better integrate open source into the organization’s infrastructure, worker’s culture and operations. We host two kinds of Touchpoints every month, happening on different days and at varying cadences and times, with content being cross-shared between both sessions. Conversations are governed under Chatham House Rules:
- TODO Europe Chapter General Member and OSPOlogy Touchpoints (Thursdays)
- TODO General Member Touchpoints (Fridays)
Other Resources of Interest - OSPOlogy Webinars
- 🏛 OSPOs & Transition Paths for Regulated Environments
- 🌻 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
- 🧩 Lessons Learned from Ant Group OSPO
- 🧩 How organizations manage change for open source adoption with OSPOs
- OSPOlogy 2022 List
Contributor Space
There are currently three (3) active working groups on concrete areas of focus:
| OSPO Book Working Group | CHAOSS OSPO Metrics | Open Source in Business | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Create a guide to address the gap in knowledge and strategic guidance around open source adoption from a business-driven perspective |
| Meeting Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes |
| Working Repo | Working repo | Working repo | Working repo |
| Communication Channels | Mailing List | TODO Slack #wg-ospometrics-chaoss | TODO Slack wg-oss-in-business |
| Moderators & Chairs | Chairs | Matt and Gary | To be Determined |
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Other Calendars of Interest
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