The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides a low-threshold entry point for organisations that want to exchange and learn about the basics on how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started into open source.
The 90 minute meeting is planned in a monthly cadence and will mainly consist of two parts.
In the first part an invited presenter will share experiences, lessons learned and other cool stuff. We plan to record this part of the meeting and to upload the recording later at the OSPO OnRamp website for later reference. This way we hope to gather and retain valuable information for the community.
In the second part of the meeting we would like to provide a trustful and protected environment where all participants can openly share and discuss their challenges, problems or other actual topics around establishing Open Source in their respective organisations. This part of the meeting will be held according to the Chatham House Rules. Therefore there will be no recording of this part of the meeting.
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Next meeting(s)
Meetings are scheduled for every third Friday of every other the month from 10:30-12:00 CEST.
📅 Date: Friday, December 20th, 10:30-12:00 CET
🎙️ Speakers: Nicolas Vivant, Director of Digital Strategy at the City of Echirolles (France).
📜 Agenda: Open Source strategy and governance at the city level: testimony from Echirolles.Nicolas Vivant will tell the story of the determined transition of the City of Echirolles towards open source software started several years ago, to address the major issues associated with digital technology, including sovereignty, respect for personal data, environmental impact, cybersecurity, etc. He will explain the various steps and methodology implemented: the emergence of the project, the political dimension, the challenges related to management, as well as the practical approach followed, always giving a priority on the final service rendered. Echirolles is also co-organiser of AlpOSS, an annual event held at the town hall that brings together local opensource players.
📅 Date: Friday, January 17th, 10:30-12:00 CET
🎙️ Speakers: Stefano Maffulli Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative.
📜 Agenda: Beyond version 1 of the Open Source AI Definition.The release of v.1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition answers a lot of questions and leaves others unanswered. We’ll briefly cover the 2+ years of the co-design process that led to the Open Source AI Definition 1.0 and highlight the unanswered questions with suggestions on how to move forward and how OSPOs can leverage it in their open source policies.
📅 Date: Friday, March 21th, 10:30-12:00 CET
🎙️ Speakers: To be announced.
📜 Agenda: To be announced.
For your convenience, we provide:
- 🗓️ an online calendar. Click this link to open it.
- ⤵️ a way to add them dynamically to your own calendar app and stay up to date. Add to your calendar app an Internet calendar using this link.
Previous meetings
You can find all available recordings and available content from the previous meetings 🔄 here.
Mailing list
All news, infos and updates will be shared on the OSPO OnRamp mailing list.
Please subscribe at https://framalistes.org/sympa/info/ospo.onramp.
Meeting topics
We would love to see topic proposals for the meeting via the maillinglist. The following list can be seen as starting point, which we will extend based on the community input:
- How to select the “right” open source project for adoption and contributions.
- How to identity sustainable, secure open source projects with respect also to processes and documentation.
- How to attract/raise interest of the C-Level management for a dedicated Open Source strategy.
- How to ease the formal “entry barriers” for developers to join open source activities.
- How to engage with the Open Source community as a company.
We don’t plan to establish a formal voting process but confirming interest into proposed projects via the mailing list will help us to identify the most relevant topics for the community.
Initially we will reach out to the OSPO Alliance network to identify speakers, who are willing to share insights from their perspective, but mid- to long-term we hope that the community itself will identify the right speakers for upcoming meetings.
Additional Resources
Resources coming from different Open Source and/or OSPO communities and Open Source professionals to help people advance in their open source journey.
Guides and books: