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COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - Introduction ● The OSPO Alliance was founded in 2021 to help organisations and companies build and improve their Open Source Program Offices. ● Composed of several sub-working groups: ○ OSPO Zone: a platform for sharing and promoting world class materials on good governance for Open Source Program Offices. https://ospo.zone ○ The Good Governance Initiative works on a set of best practices and recommendations for OSPOs, with the GGI Handbook published in November 2021. ○ OSPO OnRamp provides a place to share experiences, issues and solutions, during a monthly meeting.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - Introduction ● The OSPO Alliance gathers partners from different domains, organisations and companies, mostly in Europe. ● Low entry barrier: no fee, members just need to sign a letter of support. … and participate! ● The initiative targets all types of organisations: ○ With a focus on non-tech, small and medium companies. ○ Administrations, from EU or state entities to towns. ○ Academia: universities and research labs. ● With the hope that organisations become better open source citizens.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - Members Founding members: ● Eclipse Foundation, ● OW2, ● Foundation for Public Code, ● OpenForum Europe. Supporting members: ● 27 members joined the initiative since then.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - The Good Governance Initiative The Good Governance Initiative was started by OW2 in late 2020 to define a corpus of best practices and recommendations for Open Source Program Offices. ● Open: it involves partners from various organisations and companies, who regularly meet to define the roadmap, synchronise on communication, and work on content. ● Practical: focus on pragmatic advice and recommendations, gathered from experienced practitioners. ● With a broad scope: goes beyond compliance and IP risks, to include HR, training, participation to events, funding and strategic thinking. The GGI holds weekly meetings open to all, and minutes are public.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - The Good Governance Initiative The Good Governance Initiative body of knowledge is decomposed into 5 Goals: ● Usage Goal: Technical Skills in Using Open Source Software. ● Trust Goal: Secure and Appropriate Usage of Open Source Software. ● Culture Goal: Belonging to the Open Source Community at Large. ● Engagement Goal: Engaging with the OSS ecosystem. ● Strategy Goal: Proactively using OSS for innovation and competitiveness.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - The Good Governance Initiative Each goal is composed of a number of activities, that describe a specific topic related to open source management within the organisation. Examples of activities include: ● Manage software vulnerabilities ● Contribute to open source projects ● Manage open source software development skills and resources ● Upstream first ● Support open source communities ● Publicly assert use of open source ● Engage with open source vendors ● Setup a strategy for corporate open source governance ● Open source and digital sovereignty ● etc.

COPYRIGHT (C) 2020, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | MADE AVAILABLE UNDER CC-BY OSPO Alliance - Resources Resources and references: ● Main entry point is the OSPO Zone website: https://ospo.zone ○ Mailing list: https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/ospo.zone ● Good Governance Initiative: ○ Presentation: https://www.ow2.org/OSS_Governance ○ The GGI Handbook: https://ospo.zone/ggi ○ GGI development (GitLab): https://gitlab.ow2.org/ggi/ggi-castalia ○ Mailing list: https://mail.ow2.org/wws/info/ossgovernance ● OSPO OnRamp: https://ospo.zone/onramp