2026-04-29 — OSPO Alliance - Quarterly Update - 2026 Q1 RetrOSPOctive

🌱🪻Time flies, 2026 1st quarter is already gone

Dear community, early 2026 is gone so fast with everyone being very busy and worried about worldwide situations.
🗓️ We shared our Q1 update on April 17th, as an “hors d’oeuvres” to our latest and great OnRamp session with Boris Doley from RTE. Recording can be found here.

Following the call and for the ones who could not make it, you will find hereafter our quarterly recap with latest news, updates, changes within the OSPO Alliance and progress of our work on the GGI Handbook. These recaps are made for you 🫵🏼 so let us know how we do and if we deliver the right value for your time!

🧭 Welcoming Community Members to the OSPO Alliance,

During the last quarter, we welcomed a new famous member, so join us for a warm welcome to:

Sopra Steria Group - major tech player in Europe with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, recognized for its consulting, digital services and solutions. The group has been involved in Open Source projects through CS Group subsidiary for more than 13 years, now ramping their OSPO organization!

Being supported by more than 50 organisations is a great privilege with members coming from different geographies and area of focus. This a huge opportunity to gather rich ideas and feedbacks! 👉🏻 Therefore, we would expect our members to engage in more active contributions, discussions on the forum, mailing list or share content with others through OnRamps or OSPO Stories!

Project Updates

✅ After the GGI 1.3 release in December, a lot of activity in Q1 has been focused on translations. We are very happy to have, hot from the press, the 🇩🇪 German, 🇫🇷 French ,🇯🇵 Japanese versions available for download or HTML online Good Governance Handbook. Big thank you goes to our translators and reviewers (some you can meet here).

📈 2026 Roadmap

📣 Earlier this year, the all team brainstormed to evaluate what should come next to enable the OSPO community. It is a good moment to think back about our audience and if the Good Governance Handbook enables organization leads to develop, drive, sustain and reinforce their open source strategy, there might be topics that come around the strategy to feed the efforts, this year we will investigate in those add-ons to your open source strategy:

  • Open source strategy can only be sustained in organization if business value is shown or directly connected to the open source efforts, this is the only reason why the strategy and roles would sustain and remain when some turmoil happens, budgets are restricted or priorities might get reviewed. Business value and metrics is add-on we will work on,
  • The worldwide events recently reinforced the need to consider the digital sovereignty of countries, strategic organisations and therefore the resilience each organization controls and should pursue for its own operations, digital sovereignty and resilience will be another of our work item,
  • Strongly related to business value is also the ability to “enhance” OSPOs and their teams, supporting the ability to spend more time on impactful activities and automate wherever possible the repetitive tasks, evaluate how AI could help or how to build an OSPO powered by AI is another topic that we are working on,
  • Accessibility and translations, we will pursue our support for new languages and see how to deepen our existing reach (translation of the web site),
  • Community building and reach is still a strong focus with a dual vision of experts that want to hear from their experience so that it benefits to less experienced teams who are earlier in their open source transformation or journey.

Please react, tell us what you think and join conversations in the 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 :

Next spoiler alert we want to meet you :

✨ United Nation Open Source Principles In January, we proudly announced that we endorsed the UN Open Source Principles! These 8 principles are a strong signal to rally organizations around transparent and collaborative digital solutions and they resonate deeply with everything we stand for in the OSPO Alliance. Read more

✨ OSPO Alliance faces
Launched in December, we want to recognize persons who dedicate some of their time, passion and energy for others in the community, with OSPO Alliance faces we want to give specific focus on our current contributors (1). If we skipped you, please contact us [email protected].
(1) in order to keep it manageable, current refers to current release of the handbook or current year translation work.

🔥 OnRamp

OSPO OnRamp are sessions—low-threshold webinars for orgs embarking on open source journeys as well as the opportunity for experts to share their experience and start conversation with other experts. We have had a good start in 2026 with busy year with a lot of valuable speakers sharing their insights:

📅 The Role of OSPOs and Public Procurement in Enhancing Corporate Strategic Autonomy (April, 2026)
🗣 Speaker: Boris Dolley, Head of OSPO and Sustainable IT at RTE France.

📅 How Package-URL (PURL) transforms OSPO operations (March 2026)
🗣 Speaker: Philippe Ombredanne, Lead Maintainer of AboutCode.

📅 Why and how Alliander updated their license policy for use with Open Source (February, 2026)
🗣 Speaker: Nico Rikken, System Architect and Open Source Advocate at Alliander.

📅 Defining a corporate policy to empower employees to contribute to Open Source (January, 2026)
🗣 Speaker: Holger Streidl, Corporate Open Source Officer at ZEISS Digital Partners.

Check past sessions and recordings Past OnRamp meetings Bookmark upcoming sessions OnRamps

📅 Friday, May 29th, 10:30-12:00 CEST  
🎙️ Lucie Albaret, Librarian, Guillaume Comparato PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes and Violaine Louvet, Research Engineer at the CNRS’s Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory of Applied Mathematics.  
📜 Institutional implementation. Setting up an OSPO: lessons from the field at Grenoble Alpes University.

📊 Community Metrics: Activity and Growth

Project activity has been strongly articulated around Release 1.3 Translations on weblate:

- 610 commits, 21 issues
- 3819 web and forum visits in Q1, with top traffic from UK, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea
- 1180 Followers on LinkedIn and socials (+150 in Q1, not deduplicated)

🌐 Digital Presence

The community keeps the conversation flowing via:

🗓️ Mark Your Calendar

📊 Quarterly Reports: Will be shared during 1st OnRamp of Quarter (April, July, Oct, Jan) followed by news posted and recap email to our mailing lists.

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 organizations not just participate in open source—but lead it 🚀.

Your OSPO Alliance team