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🌱🪻Die Zeit vergeht wie im Flug, das 1. Quartal 2026 ist bereits vorbei Liebe Community, Anfang 2026 ist so schnell vergangen, da alle sehr beschäftigt und besorgt über die weltweiten Situationen sind.

Im Mai kehren die OnRamp-Sitzungen an die Universität zurück und begrüßen ein Trio von Rednern: Lucie Albaret, Guillaume Comparato und Violaine Louvet.

🚀 Unsere erweiterte Über uns-Seite ist online – und sie erzählt eine Geschichte, die uns am Herzen liegt. Bei der OSPO Alliance glauben wir, dass Open Source und Open-Source-Verwaltung ein Teamsport sind.

In der April-Sitzung des OnRamp-Webinars wird Boris Dolley hervorheben, dass 2 Billionen Euro im europäischen öffentlichen Beschaffungswesen (120 Milliarden Euro im digitalen Bereich) oft US-Softwareanbieter finanzieren.

Wir sind stolz, bekannt zu geben, dass die OSPO Alliance offiziell die Open-Source-Prinzipien der Vereinten Nationen unterstützt – ein bahnbrechendes Rahmenwerk, das vom UN-Generaldirektor verabschiedet wurde, um die weltweite Einführung von Open Source zu steuern.

Vernetzen und teilen: Ob wir uns unterhalten, zusammenarbeiten oder einfach nur netzwerken, bitte tauschen Sie sich mit unseren Teammitgliedern aus, da wir bei den folgenden Veranstaltungen anwesend sein werden:

In der März-Ausgabe des OnRamp-Webinars stellt Philippe Ombredanne Package-URL (PURL) als offenen Standard vor, der eine einheitliche, universelle Methode zur Identifizierung von Softwarepaketen über verschiedene Ökosysteme hinweg bietet und damit entscheidende Probleme bei der Nachverfolgung von Sicherheitslücken, der Einhaltung von Lizenzen und der Sicherheit der Lieferkette angeht.

Hört, hört! Weitere vertrauenswürdige Dienstleister für Ihre Open-Source-Strategien! Die OSPO Alliance freut sich, zwei neue Player in unserem Beratungszentrum begrüßen zu dürfen: Open UP und Open Source Experts.

Lassen Sie uns im Februar unser Feedback vor Ort mit Nicht-Software-Unternehmen wie Alliander fortsetzen, die vor besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Einführung stehen.

🎄Wir wünschen Ihnen und Ihren Familien ein frohes neues Jahr 2026! 🗓️ Wir haben am 12. Januar unseren Q4-Update-Call abgehalten. Die Aufzeichnung finden Sie auf der Inno3 Peertube-Instanz hier.

In dieser allerersten OnRamp-Webinar-Sitzung im Jahr 2026 erfahren wir, wie ein fast 200 Jahre alter Innovator wie ZEISS Open Source nutzt.

Sie möchten sich inspirieren lassen? Erfahren Sie mehr über die neueste Anerkennung von Thales. Es ist nicht nötig, die ThalesGroup vorzustellen, aber Sie wissen vielleicht nicht, dass sie eine konsistente und langfristige Open-Source-Strategie verfolgen (siehe diese Geschichte) und durch Sébastien Lejeune einen großen Beitrag zur OSPO-Allianz leisten.

Am 23.-24. September 2025 wurde das erste offizielle akademische OSPO Frankreichs von der Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) eingeweiht. Seit Jahren engagiert sich die Université Grenoble Alpes über ihre Einheit Grenoble Alpes Data in der Unterstützung wissenschaftlicher Gemeinschaften rund um Open-Source-Software.

We are very happy and proud to announce that release 1.3 of the initiative is now available as committed in our 2025 roadmap collaboratively established with users.

It is with an immense pleasure that we welcome OVHcloud as new supporting member of the OSPO Alliance! There is no need to introduce OVHcloud, well known european leader in cloud technologies and services, they have been supporting and contributing to various open source projects from the very beginning of their journey.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Hack23 as new supporting member of the OSPO Alliance! As we will soon release next version of Good Governance Initiative with cybersecurity enhancement, it is great to have security and open source experts such as James Pether Sörling (CEO of Hack23) join our community.

Great interview by Open Source Observatory (OSOR) following the announcement of the Public Sector OSPOs network. In this article, Boris Baldassari summarizes the goals of the OSPO Alliance and explains this new initiative, supported by OSPO Alliance, that aims to list and connect public sector open source program offices while promoting free software collaboration among public sector organizations worldwide.

In der letzten Sitzung des Jahres für die OnRamp-Webinarreihe wird unsere Rednerin Clare Dillon untersuchen, wie das äußerst einflussreiche Team Topologies-Rahmenwerk auf Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) und InnerSource Program Offices (ISPOs) angewendet werden kann.

📆 December, 10-11th, Open Source Experience 2025, will be held in Paris at the Cité des Sciences (new location)! 👍🏼 OSPO Alliance is partner of this must-attend event for open source ecosystem and solutions as ambassador.

In der November-Ausgabe des OnRamp-Webinars stellt Philippe Ombredanne Package-URL (PURL) als offenen Standard vor, der eine einheitliche, universelle Methode zur Identifizierung von Softwarepaketen über verschiedene Ökosysteme hinweg bietet und damit entscheidende Probleme bei der Nachverfolgung von Sicherheitslücken, der Einhaltung von Lizenzen und der Sicherheit der Lieferkette angeht.

🚀 We held our Q3 quarterly update call October 13th. These calls are dedicated to you 🫵🏼 so let us know how we do and if we deliver the right value for your time!

⏱️ Time flies, summer break vanished and our Q3 update is already in 10 days. Bookmark your agenda for this next quarterly update, that will take place October, 13th at 4PM CET.

Die Wiederholung der vorherigen OnRamp-Sitzung ist bereits online (sehen Sie sie sich auf der Seite vergangene Treffen an) und die nächste kommt bald.

The Free/Libre and Open Source Software Public Sector OSPOs (FLOSS PSOs) Network is a volunteer-driven initiative that aims to list and connect public sector open source program offices while promoting free software collaboration among public sector organizations worldwide.

Following their great work on translations, we are very honored to have support from Open Culture Foundation confirmed as member of the OSPO Alliance!

Der September steht vor der Tür und die OnRamp-Session wird sehr bald zurück sein. In der September-Sitzung wird Vincent Untz hervorheben, wie ein Open-Source-Manifest die Vision und Strategie einer Organisation in Einklang bringen kann, veranschaulicht durch die erfolgreiche Umstrukturierung von Centreon.

It is with great pleasure and a bit of pride that we welcome National Digital Twin Programme as new supporting member of the OSPO Alliance!

🛠️ Open Source Conference Luxembourg 2025 is back on October 1st in Belval, and it’s shaping up to be a powerhouse of ideas, code, and community spirit.

As promised, we held our Q2 quarterly update call July 7th. This edition had growing attendance, evidence of increased interest and delivered value for your time!

Save your agenda for our next quarterly update, that will take place July, 7h at 4PM CEST. We will review our news, progress and changes in 2025 with focus on the last quarter.

In June, we will be present at OW2con'2025 to contribute to the breakout session about Cyber Resilience Act, with Inno3 and CNLL.

We are very happy to share that we received support from Open By Default joining as member of the OSPO Alliance.

Die Aufzeichnung der OnRamp-Sitzung im April zum Cyber Resilience Act ist bereits online. Falls Sie es verpasst haben, können Sie es sich trotzdem mit Tobie Langel, Tech Lead ORC WG bei Eclipse Foundation und Principal bei UnlockOpen ansehen.

Check out the –👉🏼testimonial– from our friends at the Open Culture foundation led by Ian in Taiwan. Discover their broad open source activities in the country, their focus on OSPOs, and why they invested in the translation of the GGI Handbook in Chinese traditional through an amazing community effort.

As announced, we held our first quarterly update call last week. Following our call, you will find hereafter our recap email to share news, updates and changes in the OSPO Alliance and our work on the GGI Handbook.

With the vast majority of organizations using either GitLab or GitHub, the number one request has been to be able to use and benefit from the Good Governance Initiative thru My GGI board on both platforms.

🪄 It is another moment of this great magic of community and collaboration as we are thrilled, humbled and thankful to announce that GGI Handbook is now available in 9 languages by adding Portuguese, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified!

The GGI Handbook was introduced and showcased by OW2 at AlpOSS, February 20 in Echirolles (Grenoble, France). The GGI handbook and the OSPO Alliance were represented by OW2 during the AlpOSS conference in Echirolles (Grenoble, France), on February 20, 2025.

Die Aufzeichnung des OnRamp-Meetings im März ist bereits online. Falls Sie es verpasst haben, können Sie sich trotzdem diese praxisorienierte Sitzung zum Erstellen vollständiger SBOMs mit Open-Source-Tools (und OSSKB.

Check out videos from Open Source Experience 2024 (#OSXP2024) as the OSPO Alliance team had the pleasure to be at the core of the Business and Challenges conversations and track.

Die Aufzeichnung der OnRamp-Sitzung im Januar ist online. Falls Sie es verpasst haben, können Sie sich trotzdem unseren ausführlichen Einblick in die Open-Source-KI-Definition mit Stefano Maffulli, dem Geschäftsführer der Open Source Initiative](https://www.

Dear community, We wish you all the best for this new year, may 2025 bring you and your dearest health and happiness!

Starting 2025, we are very excited to welcome Open Source Experts as member of OSPO Alliance ! Open Source Experts’s mission is to provide access to Open Source expertise, which is often dispersed among numerous specialized, smaller players, by serving as a single point of contact to meet customers’ needs.

We are excited to share that AboutCode has joined the OSPO Alliance! 🌐 As a leader in promoting open source governance (OSS), AboutCode is dedicated to supporting Open Source Program Offices (OSPO).

We are very proud and honoured to have City of Paris joining as member of OSPO Alliance ! This is the achievement of a long term involvement as an active member of the OSPO Alliance community, early adopter of the Good Governance Initiative framework, contributing to a structured Open Source Program Office (OSPO) that coordinates its open source activities led by their Open Source program Officer Philippe Bareille.

We are happy to announce a new Trusted Partner, the Eclipse Foundation! The Eclipse Foundation is a founding member of the OSPO Alliance, still involved in its governance and actively participating from the start to all its initiatives : the GGI handbook and its translations, the OnRamp meetings, the outreach, …

The OSPO Alliance is delighted to announce a new translation of the Good Governance Handbook v1.2 in Italian! This has been – again – a beautiful community effort, with contributors kindly joining the effort on our translation platform, Weblate.

📢 Meet RIOS and the OSPO Alliance during SFScon and do not miss our talk about OSPOs by Valentina Del Prete.

The community of the OSPO Alliance welcomes a new member from the automotive industry: IAST (Ingenieurgesellschaft für Automotiv Software- und System-Technik).

📢 Join us at OSXP for the OSPO Alliance talk: “Unlocking the Strategic Value of Open Source in Business”!, Paris December, 4-5 2024

A Brand New Reinforced Board for the OSPO Alliance: on September 23rd, the OSPO Alliance announced the election of a new augmented board: Frédéric Aatz as Chair, along with Nicolas Toussaint and Florent Zara as Vice-Chairs.

We’re proud to share our presence at OCX24 to talk about Good Governance Initiative, why translating is user oriented and making common goods available in multiple language is often a legal must as well as an accessibility need.

We’re happy to share that our team will present OSPO Alliance and the latest from our actions with GGI at LibreOffice Conference and OpenSource 2024 in Luxembourg:

After a deep dive in the French State OSPO in May, Leonardo Favario will conclude the first part of our 2024 season of our OnRamp sessions before the summer break, with an exclusive overview of an OSPO, still in the public sector, with a use case from Italy this time.

We are thrilled to announce that a new language has been added to our set of translations: we now have a Spanish translation of our GGI Handbook!

S like spring ! But also S like Software Composition Analysis (SCA) therefore, we are happy to welcome SCANOSS as a new member joining OSPO Alliance’s community!

We are happy to announce our first Trusted Partner, Sailboard! In the context of the OSPO Alliance, Sailboard helps organisations implement and maintain Open Source Program Offices using a standard approach based on the OSS Good Governance Initiative blueprint.

Welcome to 2024! Happy New Year to everyone. We wish you all the best for your OSPO projects 😀 In a couple of weeks, Tobie Langel will inaugurate the 2024 season of our OnRamp sessions, showing that alignment isn’t just for AI.

Another round in the academic world for our OnRamp series. In a couple of weeks, we will welcome John Whelan who’s Director of the OSPO of the Trinity College of Dublin.

In Case You Missed It, we hosted two great OnRamp sessions in October and November. Let’s delve into the key highlights and takeaways from these enlightening sessions.

The members of the OSPO Alliance are proud to announce the availability of version 1.2 of the Good Governance Initiative (GGI) Handbook.

Thanks to the collaborative effort from the open source community, the OSPO Alliance GGI Handbook is today’s most translated document to help organisations building OSPOs.

In October, our next OnRamp meeting will feature Anne-Marie Scott from the board of the Apereo Foundation. She’ll tell us about OSPOs in the Academic World.

The OSPO Alliance is proud to announce the general availability of the Portuguese translation of the GGI Handbook, version 1.1! Get it now – free and open source as usual, from our website:

This month’s On-Ramp meeting will welcome Jan Ainali who’s Codebase Steward at Foundation for Public Code. He’ll present us the Governance Game and how your organisation can use it to create discussions about effective open source governance.

The OSPO Alliance is proud to announce the availability of two updated translations of the Good Governance Handbook v1.1: 🇩🇪 German 🇫🇷 French ▶️ Grab your copy at https://ospo-alliance.

The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides an open, neutral and friendly forum, low-threshold entry point to exchange and learn about the basics of how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started with open source.

The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides an open, neutral and friendly forum, low-threshold entry point to exchange and learn about the basics of how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started with open source.

It’s open to all with no registration in a safe environment. Just come and grab a seat. 📅 Feb 17th, 2023 ⏰ 10:30-12:00 CET ▶️ https://ospo-alliance.

Are you attending FOSDEM? Join us on Saturday February 4, room H.2215 (Ferrer), from 15:00 to 15:15. GGI and the OSPO Alliance will be presented in a lightning talk given by Boris Baldassari.

At Open Source Experience in Paris, members of the OSPO Alliance announce release of GGI 1.1 « GGI » framework achieved significant progresses and is now in use to help building OSPOs.

💡November SFSCon Bolzano Strategic Business Models und OSPO Implementation Talk— title: “💡November SFSCon Bozen-Vortrag über Strategische Geschäftsmodelle und OSPO Einrichtung” date: 2025-12-11T10:00:00+01:00 layout: “news” Die SFSCON fand vom 13.