If you look at the OSPO mind map you will see an OSPO may have lots of responsibilities such as "establish and improve Open Source processes", "oversee Open Source compliance", and "eliminate friction from using and contributing to Open Source". Yet a lot of OSPOs only have a few people working on these responsibilities, especially those who just started their OSPO. How do scale your OSPO with a small team?
Automation is the answer, but that raises the question which tools to use for which use cases. In this session, Thomas will show how several OSPOs have been working together to create open source tooling to automate their FOSS policies and processes. He will demonstrate a reference processes for how one can automate 'oversee Open Source Compliance' and 'Publishing a new open source project' from start to finish and some of the lessons he learned on automation over the years.
EPAM
Head of Open Source Program Office
As Head of Open Source Program Office with a background in various software technologies, I work with my core and extended teams to improve using and contributing to Open Source projects and building open source communities.
I am also an active open source contributor for many years. I have been contributing to the SPDX specification for software bill of materials for several years, hel…
As Head of Open Source Program Office with a background in various software technologies, I work with my core and extended teams to improve using and contributing to Open Source projects and building open source communities.
I am also an active open source contributor for many years. I have been contributing to the SPDX specification for software bill of materials for several years, helping to make it better match what developers find in code. I work on open-sourced review tooling solutions within the OSS Review Toolkit project and also build wider open source communities as one of the co-founders of the European Chapter of the TODO group and the (OpenChain) Open Source Reference Tooling Group.
I’m a frequent speaker and panelist at various global open source conferences and am always happy to start a conversation around anything open source. I’ve held a variety of technical leadership roles over the past 15 years, and have worked in Netherlands, UK, and Germany.
Linux Foundation
Organizer
Organizer
Organizer
TODO Group Program Manager
Collaborator | TODO Steering Committee Member
Collaborator | TODO Steering Committee Member