🎄We wish you and your families a Happy New Year 2026!
🗓️ We held our Q4 update call on January 12th, recording can be found on Inno3 Peertube instance here. Following the call, you will find hereafter our quarterly recap with latest news, updates, changes with the OSPO Alliance and progress of our work on the GGI Handbook. These recaps are dedicated to you 🫵🏼 so let us know how we do and if we deliver the right value!
🧭 Welcome to the OSPO Alliance, new community members
During the last quarter, we received support from 4 new members, so join us for a warm welcome to:
- Hack23 - Cyber security expert based in Sweden
- Open Up - Open source consulting based in France
- OVH - Hosting services leader based in France & Canada
- Toscalix - Open source consulting based in Spain
We are now supported by more than 50 organisations and it is great to see new members coming from such different geographies and area of focus, supporting our community efforts. However, we encourage our members to engage in active contributions, discussions on the forum and mailing list or share content with others through OnRamps or OSPO Stories!
Project Updates
As we closed 2025 and now started 2026, it is great time to pause and reflect on our achievements against 2025 roadmap and what should come next in our 2026 roadmap.
📈 2025 Roadmap
Our commitment for 2025 roadmap, collaboratively established with user’s feedback was to deliver new release with reinforced security focus, support new platform for MyGGI dashboard deployment, continue supporting translation efforts, grow our community (see related chapters).
✅ GGI 1.3 was released in December prior to Open Source Experience (Paris), so it was a perfect opportunity to share the news as well as engaging with tens of visitors on the Eclipse Foundation booth as well as OW2 and Orange to name a few. The GGI 1.3 release brings a set of key features:
- 🔏 Cybersecurity: Activities have been reviewed and challenged against security considerations. This perspective is reinforced due to todays’ increased focus on cybersecurity, amplified by regulations (US Executive Order 14028, EU Cyber resilience Act). In this release, security in activities are tuned in that perspective while strictly avoiding being regulation or geography specific.
- 🏳️ Deploy My-GGI-Board on GitLab/GitHub: Reflecting the demand from organisations, it is now possible to deploy My-GGI-Board on your own GitLab/GitHub spaces. This will create an Issues Board for a clear overview of your current activities and a static website to share progress and current work.
- 🌐 Translations: Handbook content is now available in 9 translated versions on https://ospo-alliance.org/translations, both in a PDF each and online HTML. Based on Weblate and automation scripts, the handbook may be generated with content and table of contents with different alphabets.
- 📝 Enhancements & corrections: This version also contains updated links, minor corrections or updated wording based on user feedback. Full roadmap and release history is available here Gitlab - GGI Roadmap.
📈 2026 Roadmap
📣 As this recap goes to press, we are listing and soon prioritizing our 2026 roadmap, understand what would be the most wanted features and enhancements. Of course this is also about our own availabilities so every contribution is appreciated. So please share your ideas, suggestions, pain points that might fit in our collective work.
- 📝 Add to Brainstorm PAD
- 📨 Conversations Forum
💬 News Events, OnRamps & Community Engagement
We have been engaging through a number of events, welcomed great talks or shared experiences, testimonials by peer members. All along the year, stay tuned on our activities by regularly checking our news hub.
Last quarter events and engagements :
- Open Source Conference (LU), Follow the video publishing next https://conference.opensource.lu/agenda/
- OSPO Alliance partner ambassador of Open Source Experience 2025 (Paris) https://ospo-alliance.org/news
- November SFSCon Bolzano, Strategic Business Models & OSPO Implementation talk https://ospo-alliance.org/news
- Inauguration of the first French academic official OSPO by UGA https://ospo-alliance.org/news
- OSPO Alliance featured on OSOR through FLOSS PSO initiative https://ospo-alliance.org/news
- FLOSS PSO growing community (17 OSPOs in directory) & presented during OSXP
- Thalès … talk the walk and walk the talk on open source strategy [Capitole du Libre, OSXP Award](https://ospo-alliance.org/news)!!
OSPO Alliance faces Community is all about people, so moving forward, we want to put more faces on this great community, persons who dedicate time, passion and energy for others through the Alliance. Easy was to start with our maintainers and ambassadors OSPO Alliance faces but we want to honor our current (*) contributors as soon as we have their agreements. If we skipped you, please contact us.
(*) in order to keep it manageable, current refers to current release of the handbook or current year translation work.
🔥 OnRamp on Fire with rolling 6 months active pipeline
OSPO OnRamp are sessions—low-threshold webinars for orgs embarking on open source journeys. We have had a busy year with a lot of valuable speakers sharing their insights. Latest session has been so insightful prior to new year break:
🎙️ Clare Dillon, Community Lead at CURIOSS & Researcher at Lero
📜 Team Topologies & Value Paths for OSPOs and ISPOs
Upcoming sessions OnRamp
📅 Friday, January 16th, 10:30-12:00 CET (done as we speak)
🎙️ Holger Streidl, Corporate Open Source Officer at ZEISS Digital Partners
📜 Defining a corporate policy to empower our employees to contribute to Open Source
📅 Friday, February 20th, 10:30-12:00 CET
🎙️ Nico Rikken, System Architect and Open Source Advocate at Alliander
📜 Why and how Alliander updated their license policy for use with Open Source
📅 Friday, March 20th, 10:30-12:00 CET
🎙️ Philippe Ombredanne, Lead Maintainer of AboutCode
📜 How Package-URL (PURL) transforms OSPO operations
Check past sessions and recordings Past OnRamp meetings
📊 Community Metrics: Activity and Growth
Project activity has been busy through our 3 focus (Release 1.3, Translations on weblate, MyGGI Board):
✍🏼 2 700 commits, 123 Merge Request, a busy cadence of ~200 commits/month
🌐 3500 web and forum visits in Q4, with top traffic from China, Japan, Taiwan
👥 Followers on LinkedIn and socials continue to show healthy above 565 followers.
🌐 Digital Presence
The community keeps the conversation flowing via:
🗓️ Mark Your Calendar
📊 Quarterly Reports: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 We have been providing regular transparent reports on OSPO Alliance ecosystem evolution through 3 vehicles: recorded call, recap email and news. In 2026 we will provide this update through a quick summary at the beginning of 1st OnRamp session from quarters (ie April,July, Oct, Jan)
The OSPO Alliance continues to champion open source governance with depth, diversity, and digital ambition. From cybersecurity focus to translated handbooks and governance dashboards, it’s cultivating the tools and community that help organisations not just participate in open source—but lead it 🚀.
The OSPO Alliance team