2025-04-18 — OSPO Alliance's Q1 2025 - Quarterly Updates

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. This first edition revealed little attendance (recording can be found here), your time, our time being very precious, we want to hear from you about interest, format, frequency of those recaps!!

Welcoming New Supporters

The OSPO Alliance is growing, with new members in Q1: City of Paris, long term participant confirming its support, and Open Source Experts newly created French one-stop shop for open-source skills.

Our growing community underscores the interest in the work from the Alliance. We encourage members to stay active through mailing list discussions, forum and contributing content valuable for the community.

Roadmap 2025: Building the Path Ahead

Our plans for this year have been landed in Q1 as follows:

  • GGI Handbook 1.3 : Adding changes and enhancements to deliver Handbook 1.3 during the year.
  • Expanding accessibility and local regulations compliance by supporting individual or community efforts on new language.
  • Cybersecurity Focus : Assess and eventually enhance GGI Handbook to address industry regulations and strengthen open-source governance. The alliance acknowledged the importance of adapting to cybersecurity regulations like the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the US Executive Order on improving cybersecurity. Activities might be revisited and updated to align with these changes, ensuring open-source governance remains robust and resilient.
  • Community Growth : Driving engagement through events, presentations, and active participation.

Our progress in Q1

2 Major steps achieved:

  • GitHub Deployment for MyGGI Dashboard : Finalizing our 2024 work, a major milestone was achieved with the deployment of the MyGGI dashboard on GitHub. This intuitive tool simplifies governance for organizations, offering compatibility with GitLab and GitHub. With a step-by-step guide, users can easily set up their governance board, promoting efficient open-source management. https://ospo-alliance.org/news/20250328_github_deploy/
  • Translations and Accessibility : The GGI Handbook continues to bridge language barriers, now available in nine languages, including new additions with Portuguese and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified). Hosted on Weblate, volunteers can contribute translations, ensuring the handbook reaches global audiences and supports diverse communities as did OCF community. https://ospo-alliance.org/news/20250326_new_translations_available/

Stories and Event Highlights

Q1 featured noteworthy events:

  • The GGI Handbook was showcased at AlpOSS in France, sparking interest and collaboration with interesting customer feedback (https://ospo-alliance.org/news/20250220_alposs/).
  • FOSDEM as annual key gathering, no dedicated talk this year, during Open-Source week and AI, Cyber-resilience soundbites.

OnRamp Meetings: Connecting the Community

The OnRamp initiative continues to be a cornerstone for collaboration and sharing:

🗓️ Upcoming Session: Don’t miss our next meeting on April 18th focusing on navigating the Cyber Resilience Act with Tobie Langel:

  • 🎙️ Tobie Langel — Open ecosystem strategy consultant at UnlockOpen.
  • 📜 The CRA is here. Now what? April 18th

📣 Latest sessions highlights:

👉🏼Stay up-to-date and bookmark https://ospo-alliance.org/onramp/

Community Metrics and Growth

The alliance is thriving, to keep on the working efforts from contributors and on growing the community by delivering and sharing good value.

🧮Latest key metrics:

  • Commits : Over 1,955 commits in the past year, reflecting active project contributions.
  • Web Traffic : 2,325 visits in Q1, with top move from US, Korea, and Europe … Global reach remains very rewarding
  • LinkedIn Followers : An increase of 77 followers, bringing the total to 441.

These metrics showcase the alliance’s positive influence in the open-source landscape, value of the handbook content, please keep on helping us to spread the good word!

Conclusion

As we entered Q2, we want to remind you to join or recruit your peers to join the mailing list and actively participate in discussions. We want to hear your voice:

These channels are yours to promote, comment, learn.

🗓️Next bookmark Q2 quarterly: Based on our first edition, mark your calendars for the next quarterly call on July 7th, 2025, at 4 PM CET. Shared calendar, ICS.

We already tuned the format to be 20mns update / 10 mns Chatham house rules discussion.

The OSPO Alliance team