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🌞🥵 Summertime and heat, good moment for a
fresh Q2 recap
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Dear community, summer
is here and we hope you will enjoy a well-deserved
break with your dearest family or friends.
🗓️ It is
also time for our Q2 update shared July 3rd
prior to the great OnRamp session with Frédéric
Sicot from AIRBUS, recording and slides can be
found here.
Following the online
call, you can find hereafter our quarterly recap with
latest news, updates, changes within the OSPO
Alliance and progress of our work on the GGI
Handbook Initiative.
✅ These recaps are made for you, so let us know how we do and if
we deliver the right value for your time!
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🧭
Welcoming Community Members to the OSPO Alliance
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This quarter, we
welcomed a new member, so join us for a warm welcome
to:
Splendid
Data well-known Dutch
specialist focused exclusively on Oracle-to-PostgreSQL
database migrations and enterprise-grade open-source
PostgreSQL environments. Their work sits at the
intersection of open-source conviction and enterprise
practice helping large organisations in financial
services, utilities, and the public sector move away
from proprietary database technology and build on
PostgreSQL as a long-term, sustainable foundation!
With now 54
organisations supporting us (and a few more to come),
it is a great sign that the ecosystem values our work
(from all around the globe) and a huge opportunity to
gather rich ideas and feedback (see recent work on
persona)!
📣 However,
we encourage our members to engage in active
contributions, discussions on the forum, mailing list
or share content with others through OnRamp
or OSPO Stories!
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Project Updates
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👥 Who
you are
Based on recent
feedback, we realized that an explicit description of
you as audience for our Good Governance
Initiative work, was missing from our communications.
A clear definition of the profiles we have in mind
when building the assets, is now available here 👉🏻 Who
You are.
This results from a
great collaboration moment with feedback and proposal
together with quick approval from the board. Thank
you!!
One piece is unclear,
definition does not reflect your perspective? We
welcome your feedback in our Forum.
📈 2026
Roadmap
📣 The Good
Governance Handbook enables OSS leads to develop,
drive, sustain and reinforce their open source
strategy, however, while managing this change, there
are topics you need to tackle to accelerate or
optimize your approach by removing hurdles, this is
where we investigate add-on assets, built by
experts, based on shared experience, best practices to
help drive your open source strategy.
This year we
identified the following topics to work on:
- Open source
strategy can only be anchored and sustained in
organisation if strategic value is shown as
directly connected to the open source efforts, this
is the only reason why the strategy and roles would
sustain and remain when some turmoil happens,
budgets are restricted or priorities might get
reviewed. Strategic value and measurements
is one add-on we work on,
- Global events
reinforced the need to consider the digital
sovereignty or resilience of organisations and
therefore the resilience each organisation
controls and should pursue for its own operations, digital
sovereignty and resilience is another add-on,
- Strongly related
to strategic value, we hear a lot of feedback about
OSPOs being overloaded, the ability to spend more
time on impactful activities and automate, if
possible, the repetitive tasks is key to augment
OSPO's impact, another add-on work started by
initiating an OSPO
FAQ as digital common,
- Accessibility
and translations, we will pursue our support
for new languages and see how to deepen our existing
reach. Translation of the website was started with German
available, French under work, feel free to
contact us if you want to get involved for another
language,
- Community
building and reach is still a strong focus
with a dual vision of experts that want to hear from
their experience so that it benefits less
experienced teams who are earlier in their open
source transformation or journey.
Strong opinion, pain
to share ? Join the discussions Forum.
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💬 News
Events, OnRamp & Community Engagement
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Q2 big moment to get
together and share was OW2con'26 (June 2-3rd,
Paris), where a lot of us were present and we
had a very productive workshop
... a bit frustrating as those moments are always too
short !!!
📆 Next
events, please join us or share yours
- Open Source
Conference (October 7th, Luxembourg) https://conference.opensource.lu
- Open Source
Experience (Dec 9-10th, Paris), see https://ospo-alliance.org/news/20260616_osxp/
🔥 OnRamp
OSPO OnRamp are
sessions—low-threshold webinars for organisations
embarking on open source journeys as well as the
opportunity for experts to share their experience and
start conversation with other experts.
Check past sessions
and recordings Past
OnRamp meetings
⚡ The Role
of OSPOs and Public Procurement in Enhancing Corporate
Strategic Autonomy (April, 2026)
🗣 Speaker:
Boris Dolley, Head of OSPO and Sustainable IT at RTE
France.
📜
Institutional implementation. Setting up an OSPO:
lessons from the field at Grenoble Alpes University
(May, 2026)
🎙️ Lucie
Albaret, Librarian, Guillaume Comparato PhD at
Université Grenoble Alpes and Violaine Louvet,
Research Engineer at the CNRS’s Jean Kuntzmann
Laboratory of Applied Mathematics.
✈️ Airbus
OSPO: the (ongoing) journey of developers in a heavy
industry (July 2026)
🗣 Speaker:
Frédéric Sicot, eXpert in Open Source &
InnerSource Software at Airbus
Bookmark upcoming OnRamp
sessions
📅 Friday,
September 18th, 10:30-12:00 CEST
🎙️ Julien
Millau, Distinguished Engineer at Michelin.
📜 From
Tires to Code: Building Michelin’s OSPO.
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📊
Community Metrics: Activity and Growth
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✨ OSPO Alliance contributor's faces
Check our great
community, persons who dedicate some of their time,
passion and energy for others through the Alliance OSPO
Alliance faces.
✍🏻 Project
& community active with release 1.3 updates and
translations
- 429 commits, 14
issues
- 3331 web &
forum visits in Q2, with top traffic from Singapore,
US, India, Denmark, China
- 12630 Followers
on LinkedIn and socials (+78)
🌐
Digital Presence and next steps
The community keeps
the conversation flowing via:
- [Forum] (https://forum.ospo-alliance.org)
- [LinkedIn] (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ospo-alliance)
- [Mastodon] (https://mastodon.social/@OSPOAlliance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx),
[BlueSky] (https://bsky.app/profile/ospoalliance.bsky.social),
[X] (https://twitter.com/OSPOAlliance)
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📊
Quarterly Reports: Will be shared during 1st OnRamp of
every quarter (April, July, Oct, Jan) followed by news
posted and recap email to our mailing lists.
The OSPO Alliance
continues to champion open source governance with
depth, diversity, and digital ambition. From
cybersecurity focus to translated handbooks and
governance dashboards, it’s cultivating the tools and
community that help organisations not just participate
in open source—but lead it 🚀.
Your OSPO Alliance
team
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