AGL OSPO-EG Activity ~A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry~

This is a lightning talks deck for COSCUP 2025 SDV Track explaining the survey that AGL OSPO-EG is conducting.
The purpose of the survey is to find out the barriers to OSS contributions in the automotive industry.

Transcript

1. Lightning Talk AGL OSPO-EG Survey ~A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry~ August 10, 2025 Masanori Itoh AGL OSPO-EG 2025 SDV Track
2. 2025 SDV Track 2 The Primary Goal of AGL OSPO-EG  “Making it easier for engineers in automotive industry to contribute to Open Source Software”  From the OSPO-EG Proposal presentation last year  https://sched.co/1eKtx 2
3. 2025 SDV Track 3 AGL AMM Summer 2025 OSPO-EG Presentation  “OSPO-EG Update and Next”  https://sched.co/2411l (Recording is available!)  “A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry” as one of Next Step actions 3
4. 2025 SDV Track 4 Current State vs. Future Vision AGL OSPO-EG Automotive Companies Promotions Publishments Partial Feedback Ocasional, Invisible Contributions ? 😟Limited collaboration due to invisibility AGL OSPO-EG Automotive Companies Promotions Publishments Support, Training, … Detailed Feedback AGL and other OSS Continurous, Measuarable Contributions Improved Value ✅ Visible needs, Stronger collaboration, Sustainable contribution
5. 2025 SDV Track 5 Next Step 1. Survey: Barriers in OSS Contributions (ongoing) 2. OSPO Peer Support (ongoing) 3. Education for OSS Contributions 4. Open Topics Have questions or ideas? Share them in the Q&A!
6. 2025 SDV Track 6 Next Step – (1) Survey  Survey on the Barriers in OSS Contributions  Goal  Clarifying challenges preventing OSS contributions among automotive industry  Building OSPO-EG's action plans for the next few years  Value  Promoting collaboration of OSPO-EG and companies widely  Sharing the insights gained publicly  Roadmap  Phase1 : 2025 (until Sep. 27) – Carried out the Survey by ourselves (English & Japanese) – Questionaries we made are based on a pre-survey in Japan  Phase2 : 2026～ – Considering contruct to a professional research organization (ex. LF Research) – More comprehensive targets, well defined/orthogonal questions – Possibly ask for the sponsors?
7. 2025 SDV Track 7 Next Step – (1) Survey … OSS Contribution Survey (en) OSS Contribution Survey (ja)  It's out there!  Built 10 questionaries based on discussions and pre-survey among automotive companies  Mainly focusing on the challenges engineers facing on  skills, language, company rules …  Your answer matters!
8. 2025 SDV Track 8 Current Status  Responses  58 responses so far (= 33(ja) + 25(en))  Random Initial Impression (w/o systematic/deep analysis)  Japanese responses tend to complain show more issues/problems  Perhaps, Japan is the worst place to work on OSS? ((((；ﾟДﾟ)))))  More than 40% of Japanese responses are from OEMs (w/ > 20K employees)  On the contrary, non-Japanese (mainly from Europe) responses are from Tier-N suppliers (w/smaller number of employees and (could be) more light weight business process/decisions)  Call for Participation   Do please respond to the survey !!
9. 2025 SDV Track 9 Please Get Involved! OSPO-EG Home OSPO-EG Deliverables OSS Contribution Survey (en) OSS Contribution Survey (ja) • Bi-weekly regular meeting: Every other Tuesday, 1:00pm (UTC) / 10:00pm (JST) • agl-dev-community@lists.automotivelinux.org | Calendar • Mailing List: agl-ospo-eg@lists.automotivelinux.org • Discord: https://discord.gg/ZztCaVeQVG Everyone can join the call, mailing list or whatever!
10. 2025 SDV Track 10 Thank You Very Much!!