Finance:Open Source Program Office
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An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is a department concerned with Free- and Open Software and Open standards cares.
Details
OSPOs are supported by numerous companies such as Yahoo!,[1] Goldman Sachs,[2] Bloomberg L.P., Comcast or Porsche,[3] universities like Trinity College Dublin[4] or the Johns Hopkins University.[5]
The tasks of an OSPO include:
- Advocacy for free software within the organization.[6][3]
- Internal and external community management and support of the respective maintainer of the software projects.
- Maintenance of public version controls.
- Release for use of free software.
- Documentation of dependencies in used or included free software to prevent vulnerability or software license violations from third-party software.
- Creation and monitoring of license compliance policies of free-software licenses in deployed applications or published products.[7][6][3]
- Corporate communication the open source strategy inside and outside the organization[7] and contact with other OSPOs.
- Development of Business models for open-source software.[7]
References
- ↑ "The Open Source Program Office". https://yahoo.github.io/oss-guide/docs/resources/the-ospo.html.
- ↑ Goldman Sachs' Open Source Program Office, One Year In
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Evolution of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO)". https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/the-evolution-of-the-open-source-program-office-ospo.
- ↑ "Open Source Program Office - Trinity Innovation - Trinity College Dublin". https://www.tcd.ie/innovation/OSPO/.
- ↑ "Open Source Programs Office (OSPO)". https://drcc.library.jhu.edu/open-source-programs-office/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Why have an open source program office?". https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/open-source-program-office-brief.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 github.com/todogroup/ospodefinition.org Open Source Program Office (OSPO) definition of todogroup
Web Links
- ospo.zone - OSPO Alliance Association of OSPOs, including the Eclipse Foundation
- opensource.com - A guide to setting up your Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for success
- joinup.ec.europa.eu - The Rise of the Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)
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