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Localization in Action: Taiwan Open Culture Foundation’s Journey with GGI Handbook!

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Open Culture Foundation (OCF) has long supported Taiwan’s OSS community, promoting open-source principles among enterprises and government agencies through initiatives like OSPO and OpenChain. Notably, OCF had assisted KKCompany in obtaining Taiwan’s first ISO/IEC 5230 certification at 2022 and driven the “Public Money, Public Code” initiative by training government staff on open-source practices.

Our contribution

We’re excited to share that OCF contributed to localizing the GGI Handbook into Traditional Chinese, leveraging glossaries and technical expertise gained from our three-year localization project involving Taiwan’s government, industries, and communities. Our proficiency in integrating Weblate with Markdown to produce PDFs effectively solved font compatibility challenges between Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Additionally, we had a valuable opportunity to train translation interns from NTU’s Department of Foreign Languages, who actively collaborated in handbook translation, significantly enhancing their practical skills and community engagement. Our intern Ruei, participating in her first OSS project, was thrilled to see the handbook published!

Next …

This year, OCF will transform selected GGI handbook sections into educational materials, integrating them with our interactive “Open Starter Village” board game for engaging workshops. This combined approach helps enterprises grasp open-source collaboration concepts and formulate strategic approaches. Concurrently, we’re exploring ways to utilize handbook activities to assist Taiwanese government agencies in developing OSPO frameworks.

The structured GGI approach provides OCF with a clear roadmap, enabling us to efficiently identify organizational needs and gradually advance open-source governance—even without immediate ISO certification. We eagerly look forward to continuing to incorporate GGI insights into our workshops and regularly sharing our achievements and progress with the OSPO Alliance community!

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ThalesGroup: OSPO in Action!

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Hi, I am SĂ©bastien Lejeune, Open Source Advocate at Thales working at the Group Technical Directorate.

Context

Thales is a multinational group with french roots that designs, develops and manufactures electronical systems as well as devices and equipment for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security sectors.

Open-source context:

  • Open Source Software & Hardware are strategic pillars for Thales, we want to foster collaborations between the actors of these communities through our GitHub organization: https://github.com/ThalesGroup
  • We did set an OSPO up back in 2020 and we have put in place a unified process & tooling to help collaborators to contribute to existing open source project and to share Thales assets in open source
  • Open Source is sponsored by the top management and clearly defined in the group strategy

My pain points

  1. Raise Awareness: I aimed to spread awareness about this global initiative throughout the organization.
  2. Middle Management Buy-In: My goal was to persuade middle management to actively encourage their teams to participate.
  3. Scaling Up: I sought to increase the number of contributors, both within Thales and externally.

How I did it

I joined the OSPO Alliance in 2022 and became an active committer after few months.

I instanciated the GGI board into our internal Gitlab at Thales and it helped me to have an overview about all the activities I had already achieved but also a lot of relevant resources to legitimate Thales Open Source strategy and to share them with different involved people.

Achievements since 2020

  • Established an OSPO: We created an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to oversee our open-source efforts.
  • Streamlined Processes: We implemented tools and streamlined processes to facilitate easy asset publishing and contributions by all collaborators.
  • Comprehensive Documentation: A clear and accessible documentation was developed and shared across Thales.
  • Foundation Memberships: We expanded our affiliations with prominent open-source foundations, including Eclipse, Linux Foundation, CNCF, and OpenHardware Group.
  • Active Participation: Our involvement extended to various open-source working groups, such as Systematic Open Source Hub, Eclipse projects, CNCF projects, and the Good Governance Initiative.