Dear all,
Please find below the minutes of this morning's meeting with the OSPO Alliance.
## Attendees
* Frédéric Aatz (Microsoft)
* Karim El Assal (TNO)
* Boris Baldassari (Eclipse Foundation)
* Philippe Bareille (City of Paris)
* Gaël Blondelle (Eclipse Foundation)
* Gilles Gravier (Wipro)
* Jari Koivisto
* Camille Moulin (Inno3)
* Philippe Ombredanne (NexB)
* Michael Plagge (Eclipse Foundation)
* Cédric Thomas (OW2)
* Paolo Vecchi (Omnis Cloud)
## Meeting minutes
Please note that the next meeting will be held on the 14th of December, 2021, at 3pm Brussels time.
Presentation of the GGI Handbook by Cédric Thomas with the help of Frédéric Aatz and Boris Baldassari
See it live at Good Governance Initiative (ospo.zone)
We delivered V1.0 on time and are happy with the result and early feedback. This represents 2 years of work from participants. Work took place in the OW2 GitLab.
* The GGI Handbook features first an introduction presenting concepts, with a blue-print of what an OSPO can be -- but there are many definitions around. Then there is a list of all canonical activities.
* Our aim is to make organisations efficient and productive with open source, and for organisations to give back to the community and ecosystem.
* Activities are organised into goals, from usage, to trust, culture, engagement and strategy.
* Each goal has 5 activities. Not all of them will be useful everywhere, as all contexts differ, so the user will have to select them to adapt the canonical book of knowledge to the specifics of the organisation. The user will fill the scorecard activity to adapt each activity to their context.
* This helps to build a roadmap and provides steps and ideas to build the OSPO approach, adapted to the organisation's situation and objectives.
* The program then needs to iterate, making progress through the list of activities as the organisation gets better and more confident.
Open discussion about the GGI Handbook
* Feedback: we'll set up forums on the activities, general feedback can be sent on the ospo.zone mailing list or on the GGI mailing list for the core body of knowledge.
* We are looking for examples of implementation, use cases, and all contributions. We intend to make this initiative live and always evolving to really fit organisations' needs.
Ideas for promotion:
* Set up some basic marketing material? one-pager, infographic
* Create a slide deck to present the OSPO Alliance and the GGI to provide a consistent wording and presentation.
* Speak in events - and publish the videos - Cédric will record a video this week for an event in Italy at the beginning of December. We will add a link to this video once this is available.
* Present to other industry forums: like FINOSS, …, not only SW industry, as we're targeting other types of orgs as well.
* Two main audiences:
* Make sure industry is aware of the need for good governance when they use OSS.
* Also involve experts who will want to dig more into it.
OSPO Zone update
* We get more and more statements of support and interested parties.
* We're looking for people willing to contribute content, to be added to the ospo.zone website.
* The OSXP event was a great and successful opportunity to meet people and present the GGI Handbook.
* Eclipse Plato is open to contributions, people can submit updates and new content as markdown to add to the website.
* Foster collaboration on the Eclipse Plato - BOK
OSPO Zone OnRamp
* Monthly meetings to help new companies start their OSS journey. A place to share positive as well as negative things
* First meeting will happen in December
* Open place where beginners can discuss
Format of the meetings
* 1 presentation by an expert
* Then open discussions between attendees under CH rules
We need to define the rules of participation and the specific code of conduct for these meting
* You need to know the name and affiliation of people to enforce the chatham house rule.
OnRamp is a place where the entry barrier is very low, to non-existent: no fee, no registration, no constraint of any sort. Protected environment, where information can be freely shared and exchanged, without fear it will be published around the next day. Where one can ask even stupid questions. Regular meetings, with half of it recorded (presentations) and half of it private (under chatham house rule).
Open question:
* Can software vendors providing open source tools for OSPOs participate?
Yes, everybody is welcome but we will have clear rules about vendors, to prevent aggressive marketing practices while still including all actors.
Have a wonderful day, cheers!
--
boris
