The OSPO Alliance "OSPO.Zone" is platform for sharing and promoting world class materials on good governance for Open Source Program Offices.

OSPO OnRamp is a meeting series proposed by OSPO.zone to provide a low-threshold entry point for organisations who want to exchange and learn about the basics on how to set up an OpenSource Program Office and get started into open source.

The 90 minute meeting is planned in a monthly cadence. 

The next meeting is planned on Friday, December 10th, 10:30-12:00 CET

Agenda:

• Intro into the OSPO OnRamp concept - Call for active participation (10min).
• Michael Picht (SAP) - The SAP OSPO (25min).
• Cédric Thomas (OW2) - The OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative, an OSPO implementation blueprint (25min).
• Open discussion (30min).

More information and link to connect 

OW2 has been invited again to give a presentation at the Open Source Week organized by RIOS (Rete Italiana Open Source).
Many thanks to your Italian colleagues for the invitation!
Find more information about RIOS Open Source Week: https://opensourceweek.it/

Title

OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative - OSS Governance with a European Perspective

Speaker

Cedric Thomas, CEO OW2

Schedule

December 1, at 9h50. 

Abstract

This talks introduces the OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative, a methodology to help implement professional corporate management of open source software. It addresses five goals: Usage, Trust, Culture, Engagement and Strategy.

View the video

Download the slides of the presentation

The slides of the presentation can be found here.

OW2 is Community Sponsor of the upcoming SFScon conference in Bolzano, Italy. 

SFScon
November 12-13
Bolzano, Italy
https://www.sfscon.it

We are invited to organize a conference track. OW2 projects and members are welcome to submit presentations proposals. Please contact us if you are interested. 

See the replay of the OW2 track

Date of OW2 track: Friday November 12 morning from 11:20am. 

OW2 Track Agenda

1) Speaker: Cédric Thomas, OW2
Schedule: 11:20 - 11:40
Presentation title: The OW2 Market Readiness Levels method. A tool for IT decision makers
Abstract: Evaluating open source projects is a permanent challenge that OW2 has chosen to meet by defining a unique composite indicator now applied to its projects. This indicator facilitates the evaluation of open source projects from the point of view of corporate information systems managers. The growth of open source software is taking place in two main directions. First, by moving up the layers of information systems: from the operating system to the business applications, open source software is increasingly used by non-IT specialists. Second, by becoming “mainstream”, open source is reaching out to decision-makers who are unfamiliar with open source. For these new users, educated in the commercial practices of proprietary software vendors, open source remains a counter-intuitive model; its technical, legal and community specificities are a source of uncertainty that is not very favourable to positive decisions. Mainstream decision-makers must hear a language they understand. This is the role of the Market Readiness Levels (MRL) method developed by OW2 for evaluating open source projects. With MRL, decision-makers have a familiar indicator that positions open source projects according to the “business” decision criteria they are used to. Open source is moving towards them.

The talk begins with a presentation of the MRL method, its three levels of analysis and the hundred or so criteria taken into account. It then gives the example of a few OW2 projects evaluated by the method and explains what benefits it brings to the development teams, but also to the end-users and the open source in general

2) Speaker: Antoine Mottier, OW2
Schedule: 11:40 - 12:00
Presentation title: Taking dependency management to the next level with call graphs!
Abstract: Software dependencies can be viewed as graph that only get bigger as software evolved. This lead to multiple challenging situations related to security, quality, licensing and more. Today tools are great but more accurate tools such as FASTEN are under development. Join me to learn how the current dependency management tool are evolving to cope with the growing complexity of software development.

3) Speaker: Virgile Prevosto, CEA
Schedule: 12:00 - 12:20
Presentation title: DECODER Platform to speed up software development, with quality and security
Abstract: Thanks to state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence techniques, IoT and cloud computing projects are now automatically analyzed and documented by DECODER. This is increasing workgroup productivity from software designers to SaaS operators, including testers and maintainers. First external contributions are made possible through the ReachOut platform, where beta-testers can try and run several DECODER software in their own environment.

4) Speaker: Davide Zerbetto, Knowage Labs, Engineering Group
Schedule: 12:20 - 12:40
Presentation title: KNOWAGE 8 - the open source solution for data analysis in the age of digital transformation
Abstract: These unprecedented uncertain times heavily challenged companies and public administrations, calling for a deeper data understanding and a better capability to visualize data, make forecasts and take data-driven decisions. Knowage, as open-source suite for analytics and business intelligence powered by the OW2 community, strengthened its commitment to support any emerging analytical needing. Knowage 8 collects all recent efforts and will bring new rich pre-built components within dashboards, an expansion of the in-cloud offer and many new functions aiming to further enhance user experience.
This speech will address the importance of an effective data visualization and analysis as well as the detailed presentation of the new innovative functions of the last version.

5) Speaker: Eric Yubin CUI, Huawei
Schedule: 12:40 - 13:00
Presentation title: Quick App Initiative and beyond
Abstract:OW2, a global open-source software community based in Europe, has recently established the Quick App Initiative, an interest group for global developers to exchange ideas about quick app-related technologies. The group will gather global experts from a wide range of industries and fields to explore new applications in various vertical fields for quick apps while also fostering technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem.
I can elaborate on this new initiative and Huawei’s effort on this. I will also elaborate on the macro-understanding from a Huawei European point of view. And I would explain to you business opportunities and the open-source economic models in the world about this initiative and especially in China.

Open Source Experience is the new key European event (replacing Paris Open Source Summit), with the goal to bring together the entire open source expert community for two days for a new dynamic in a sector that is constantly innovating. 

Please visit: https://www.opensource-experience.com/

Open Source Experience offers:
- A hybrid physical-and-digital event format
- A unique and relevant program:
A showroom with over 70 exhibitors, over 150 conferences
- A digital platform for greater visibility, lead detection and content sharing

This first edition of OSXP will be held alongside SIDO Paris. 

OW2 will participate in Open Source Experience both in the conferences and in the exhibition. 

Conferences

1. OW2 Market Readiness Levels

2. OW2 Good Governance Initiative (GGi)

More information: https://www.opensource-experience.com/programme/conferences-et-workshops/

Exhibition

A community booth will be shared by OW2 with two corporate members (Xwiki and FusionDirectory) and three collaborative projects were OW2 is involved as dissemination partner (ReachOut, DECODER and FASTEN). 

OSPO Alliance Announces the OSS Good Governance Handbook
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 08:00

The OSPO Alliance today announced the publication of the first version of the Open Source Good Governance Handbook. Collaboratively developed in the framework of the OW2 Open Source Good Governance initiative, the handbook introduces a methodology to implement professional management of open source software in an organisation. It addresses the need to use open source software properly and fairly, safeguarding organisations from technical, legal and IP threats, and maximising for them the advantages of open source.

This methodology goes beyond compliance and liability. It is about building awareness in communities of end-users (open software developers themselves) and systems integrators, and developing mutually beneficial relationships within the FOSS ecosystem.

The Good Governance Handbook provides a comprehensive methodology based on a few key concepts. From a generic perspective, the approach is structured along five Goals (Usage, Trust, Culture, Engagement and Strategy), each supported by five Canonical Activities described in the handbook. At execution stage, the methodology requires adapting the Canonical Activities to the specific condition of each organisation by transferring them into Customized Activity Scorecards which, put together, constitute a roadmap for setting up and running an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and a management system to monitor progress.

The OSS Good Governance Handbook is the first major publication of the OSPO Alliance to help companies and public institutions implement an Open Source Program Office (OSPO).  The OSPO Alliance provides an organisation-neutral venue for contributors to share resources, experience and skills. Supporters can opt to contribute in several ways: at the new OSPO.Zone website, contribute directly to the next steps of the Good Governance Initiative methodology, and share their experiences (both successes and failures!) as case studies or with more informal short interviews. 

“This publication is the result of nearly two years of collaborative work with OW2 members and OSS practitioners. We are now moving to the implementation and customization phase with some key adopters of the methodology. We are excited to publish this effort with the OSPO Alliance,” said Cédric Thomas, CEO of OW2.

The OSPO Alliance is also pleased to welcome eight new supporters, including the Free Software Foundation Europe, SAP, and WiPro.

Quotations From Supporters About Their Participation In the OSPO Alliance:

“APELL (Association Professionnelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre), Europe’s Open Source Business Association, and its national members, are eager to support the mission of the OSPO Alliance. Europe is an open source champion, and there is still massive potential to tap everywhere from large and small software vendors to big open source users, both in the private and public sectors. We see that this partnership will be very important to strengthening not only Europe's but the world's capacity to use and contribute to open source at an even greater scale. Increased understanding of open source governance and the establishment of Open Source Programme Offices hold massive potential to enable open innovation at large in society,” said Timo Väliharju, Founder and board member of APELL.

“The CNLL, the association representing the free software sector in France, has long supported the creation of OSPOs, or "free software missions", in France, at the level of the Government but also at the level of major local authorities, as well as at the European level. The mission of these OSPOs in France should be to make concrete the notion of "encouraging the use of free software" within the administration, as provided for in Article 16 of the Digital Republic Act (or Lemaire Act) of 2016. These OSPOs should network with each other and with organizations representing the industry in order to fully realize the economic and strategic benefits of OSS in Europe,” said Stéfane Fermigier, co-president of CNLL.

“The OSB Alliance – Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. represents about 170 companies from the Open Source economy. We are committed to sustainably anchoring the central importance of open source software and open standards for a digitally sovereign society in the public consciousness.

“For the OSB Alliance establishing an OSPO is a great strategic approach for public or private organisations to professionalize their engagement with the Open Source Ecosystem. So we see the OSPO Alliance as an exciting new European initiative to support organisations in the public, private or academia sector with information and best practices on OSPOs. Such support can especially accelerate the process of setting up important OSPOs as planned e.g. at EU level or the planned Zendis in Germany,” declared Peter Ganten, Chairman of the OSBA-Board.

     
“The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Since 2001 the FSFE has been enhancing users' rights by abolishing barriers for software freedom. For 20 years FSFE has been helping individuals and organisations to understand how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.

Joining OSPO.Zone is another brick in the wall to ensure that more Free Software is developed and used - be it in the private or governmental sector. Free Software gives everybody the right to use, study, share and improve software. To make sure that these rights are understood and used an OSPO can make a difference,” said Matthias Kirschner, President Free Software Foundation Europe

About the OSPO Alliance:
The OSPO Alliance was established by leading European open source non-profit organisations, including OW2, Eclipse Foundation, OpenForum Europe, and Foundation for Public Code, and experienced practitioners with the aim to grow awareness for open source in Europe and to globally promote structured, responsible and professional management of open source by companies and administrations. OSPO.Zone is the new website for delivering the resources and collaboration envisaged by the OSPO Alliance. Learn more at https://ospo.zone.

EclipseCon Europe will take place this year again as a virtual event, from October 25 to October 28. 

OW2 CTO Antoine Mottier will present the FASTEN Dependency Management Research Project. Find more details: https://www.eclipsecon.org/2021/sessions/taking-dependency-management-next-level-call-graphs

Abstract: The software you are building has probably several dependencies and also an additional bunch of transitive dependencies.
Keeping all dependencies under control is key to ensure your application security, quality, and more.
Today some tools are helping you to manage your dependencies, and they are great, but they also have an important limitation: they lack accuracy.

In this talk I will cover how FASTEN project aim at giving more accurate dependencies insight by bringing evolutions to the existing dependencies managers (such as Maven, Pip, etc.) by leveraging functions call graphs done across the whole ecosystem (e.g. Maven Central).
You will learn how it can reduce false positives in reports that are recommending dependencies updates or detect issue at built time rather than at runtime.
So if you are overwhelmed by constant notifications related to dependency upgrades, deprecation, etc. join me to find a solution!

To register and join the presentation: https://www.eclipsecon.org/2021/registration

Conference B-Boost
October 14-15, 2021
La Rochelle, France
https://b-boost.fr/en/

OW2 is Community Partner of the B-Boost conference. More details about the OW2 presence at B-Boost will be announced soon. 

Co-organized by Nouvelle-Aquitaine Open Source and the Conseil National du Logiciel Libre, this 2nd edition of B-Boost aims to accelerate the development of the open source industry. Conceived by and for open digital stakeholders, this meeting will bring together international speakers from more than 10 different countries.

These days are aimed at leaders and managers of digital companies, those responsible for the digital strategy of companies in traditional sectors facing digital transformation, developers and all those curious about free and open source, open hardware, open data ...

More information: https://b-boost.fr/en/

Elixir 2021 is taking place on September 9 - 10, as an hybrid event, combining both an in-person in Warsaw and virtual conference. 

More information: https://www.elixirconf.eu/

ElixirConf EU is co-organised by ElixirConf and Code Sync. ElixirConf EU is the premiere Elixir conference in Europe, bringing the best speakers in the community together, for two days of first-rate Elixir talks and a day of tutorials. 

Jean Parpaillon, Chairman of the board and President of OW2, will highlight the usefulness of the OW2 Market Readiness Level, during his talk about Nerves, a major IoT framework. More information: https://www.elixirconf.eu/participants/jean-parpaillon/

Click here to register and join the talk. 

PARIS, June 23, 2021

Today at OW2con, a coalition of leading European open source non-profit organizations, including OW2, Eclipse Foundation, OpenForum Europe, and Foundation for Public Code, announced the OSPO Alliance with a mission to grow awareness for open source in Europe and globally and to promote the structured and professional management of open source by companies and administrations.

The OSPO Alliance aims to help companies and public institutions discover and understand open source, start benefiting from it across their activities and grow to host an Open Source Program Office (OSPO). It will be focused on the role of OSPOs as an aspect of organizational governance essential in non-technology sectors including education and public administration.

The OSPO Alliance is also announcing the establishment of the OSPO.Zone website hosted at https://ospo.zone. Based on the OW2 Good Governance Initiative, OSPO.Zone is a repository for a comprehensive set of resources for corporations, public institutions, and research and academic organizations. OSPO.Zone will enable the Alliance to connect with OSPOs across Europe and the world as well as with supportive community organizations. It will encourage best practices and foster contribution to the sustainability of the open source ecosystem.

To support its mission, OSPO Alliance is teaming up with a variety of strong partners:

“In an effort to encourage mainstream adoption of open source software, we have been building the Good Governance Initiative at OW2 for nearly two years and it has been well received across Europe. The obvious next step is to contribute it to the OSPO.Zone as we join forces with other European open source organizations to launch the OSPO Alliance” said Cedric Thomas, Founder and Executive Director, OW2.

"As open source becomes increasingly important to all aspects of the economy and society, OSPOs are becoming an essential feature of all organizations interested in innovation and collaboration" said Gaël Blondelle, VP of European Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation AISBL. "The Eclipse Foundation is proud to join its partners in establishing the OSPO Alliance to create high quality resources for organizations who wish to learn how to use, contribute, and participate in open source projects and their communities."

“Bosch is pleased to support the creation of OSPO.Zone, a non-commercial alliance in the service of open source software in Europe and globally" said Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser, Responsible for strategic Open Source topics in the Bosch OSPO. "As a leading European industrial, Bosch recognizes the importance of open source in its transformation to an AIoT company and the role of a well-connected OSPO for sharing best governance practices to accelerate the transformation by enabling active participation in open source communities."

“The OW2 Good Governance initiative already provides us with an excellent framework to support our commitment to open source and develop the City of Paris’ OSPO,” said Nejia Lanouar, CIO of the City of Paris. “Today, we are pleased to support the launch of the OSPO Alliance and look forward to sharing our experience on a European scale through this new community.”

“As an association of large French companies and administrations, TOSIT appreciates any effort to professionalize open source management. As such we welcome the launch of the OSPO Alliance and the Europe-wide experience sharing platform it provides," said Simon Clavier, SNCF Open Source Strategist and TOSIT Board Member.

“Code and software are part of the cultural heritage of humanity. We are pleased to support the launch of the OSPO Alliance, a European initiative contributing to the promotion of best practices in the use and preservation of open source software,” said Roberto Di Cosmo, Director at Software Heritage.

"The OSPO Alliance is an important new initiative to raise awareness of open source in Europe," said Tom Ritter, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS. "As one of the leading research organizations in Europe we have seen firsthand the increasing importance of contribution to and participation in open source communities in many sectors. I look forward to seeing the OSPO Alliance act as a catalyst for the creation of more OSPOs in industry, public institutions, and research organizations"

About the OSPO Alliance

The OSPO Alliance was established by leading European open source non-profit organisations, including OW2, Eclipse Foundation, OpenForum Europe, and Foundation for Public Code, and experienced practitioners with the aim to grow awareness for open source in Europe and to globally promote structured, responsible and professional management of open source by companies and administrations. OSPO.Zone is the new website for delivering the resources and collaboration envisaged by the OSPO Alliance. Learn more at https://ospo.zone.

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Links

• Originally published at https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/leading-european-open-source-non-profit-organizations-announce-ospo-alliance
• French version of the press release at https://www.ow2.org/view/Press_Releases/OSPO_Zone