🌞🥵 Summertime and heat, good moment for a fresh Q2 recap
Dear community, summer is here and we hope you will enjoy a well-deserved break with your dearest family or friends.
🗓️ It is also time for our Q2 update shared July 3rd prior to the great OnRamp session with Frédéric Sicot from AIRBUS, recording and slides can be found here.
Following the online call, you can find hereafter our quarterly recap with latest news, updates, changes within the OSPO Alliance and progress of our work on the GGI Handbook Initiative. ✅ 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
This quarter, we welcomed a new member, so join us for a warm welcome to:
Splendid Data well-known Dutch specialist focused exclusively on Oracle-to-PostgreSQL database migrations and enterprise-grade open-source PostgreSQL environments. Their work sits at the intersection of open-source conviction and enterprise practice helping large organisations in financial services, utilities, and the public sector move away from proprietary database technology and build on PostgreSQL as a long-term, sustainable foundation!
With now 54 organisations supporting us (and a few more to come), it is a great sign that the ecosystem values our work (from all around the globe) and a huge opportunity to gather rich ideas and feedback (see recent work on persona)!
📣 However, we encourage our members to engage in active contributions, discussions on the forum, mailing list or share content with others through OnRamps or OSPO Stories!
Project Updates
👥 Who you are
Based on recent feedbacks, we realized that an explicit description of you as audience for our Good Governance Initiative work, was missing from our communications. A clear definition of the profiles we have in mind when building the assets, is now available here 👉🏻 Who You are. This results from a great collaboration moment with feedback and proposal together with quick approval from the board. Thank you!!
One piece is unclear, definition does not reflect your perspective ? We welcome your feedback in our Forum.
📈 2026 Roadmap
📣 The Good Governance Handbook enables OSS leads to develop, drive, sustain and reinforce their open source strategy, however, while managing this change, there are topics you need to tackle to accelerate or optimize your approach by removing hurdles, this is where we investigate add-on assets, built by experts, based on shared experience, best practices to help drive your open source strategy. This year we identified the following topics to work on:
- Open source strategy can only be anchored and sustained in organisation if strategic value is shown as 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. Strategic value and measurements is one add-on we work on,
- Global events reinforced the need to consider the digital sovereignty or resilience of organisations and therefore the resilience each organisation controls and should pursue for its own operations, digital sovereignty and resilience is another add-on,
- Strongly related to strategic value, we hear a lot of feedback about OSPOs being overloaded, the ability to spend more time on impactful activities and automate if possible the repetitive tasks is key to augment OSPO’s impact, another add-on work started by initiating an OSPO FAQ as digital common,
- Accessibility and translations, we will pursue our support for new languages and see how to deepen our existing reach. Translation of the website was started with German available, French under work, feel free to contact us if you want to get involved for another language,
- 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 less experienced teams who are earlier in their open source transformation or journey.
Strong opinion, pain to share ? Join the discussions Forum
💬 News Events, OnRamps & Community Engagement
Q2 big moment to get together and share was OW2con'26 (June 2-3rd, Paris), where a lot of us were present and we had a very productive workshop … a bit frustrating as those moments are always too short !!!
📆 Next events, please join us or share yours
- Open Source Conference (October 7th, Luxembourg) https://conference.opensource.lu
- Open Source Experience (Dec 9-10th, Paris), see https://ospo-alliance.org/news/20260616_osxp/
🔥 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.
Check past sessions and recordings Past OnRamp meetings
⚡ 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.
📜 Institutional implementation. Setting up an OSPO: lessons from the field at Grenoble Alpes University (May, 2026)
🎙️ 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.
✈️ Airbus OSPO: the (ongoing) journey of developers in a heavy industry (July 2026)
🗣 Speaker: Frédéric Sicot, eXpert in Open Source & InnerSource Software at Airbus
Bookmark upcoming OnRamp sessions
📅 Friday, September 18th, 10:30-12:00 CEST
🎙️ Julien Millau, Distinguished Engineer at Michelin.
📜 From Tires to Code: Building Michelin’s OSPO.
📊 Community Metrics: Activity and Growth
✨ OSPO Alliance contributor’s faces
Check our great community, persons who dedicate some of their time, passion and energy for others through the Alliance OSPO Alliance faces.
✍🏻 Project & community active with release 1.3 updates and translations
- 429 commits, 14 issues
- 3331 web & forum visits in Q2, with top traffic from Singapore, US, India, Denmark, China
- 12630 Followers on LinkedIn and socials (+78)
🌐 Digital Presence and next steps
The community keeps the conversation flowing via:
📊 Quarterly Reports: Will be shared during 1st OnRamp of every 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 organisations not just participate in open source—but lead it 🚀.
Your OSPO Alliance team