Open Source Summit Europe 2024

This talk looks at how corporate and team culture, and organisational structure, impact open source activities at the BBC. We will share our wins and losses in the open source space, and how the culture and organisation has helped or hindered open source. Much of BBC open source is driven by grassroots individuals and teams, rather than through an Open Source Programme Office, which has had benefits and drawbacks. As a publicly funded corporation, the motivations for engaging with open source can be a little different than other organisations, which we will explore. Finally, we will deep dive into the current state of play of open source and InnerSource projects at the BBC, how they are being managed, and what our next steps and future ambitions are.

Open source as a tool to accelerate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is an opportunity that has yet to be fully realized. Through the establishment of OSPOs around the world, new opportunities abound for open source to supercharge innovations that support the 2030 agenda. This discussion will focus on the outcomes and opportunities originating from the OSPOs for Good Symposium held at the UN in July of this year, where governments, open source leaders, and sustainability-minded developers convened to chart a sustainable future for the world through open source, advocated for the OSPO as a vital center of competency, and identified ways for everyday citizens to join us in our mission.

PagoPA, a public tech company owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy, is dedicated to crafting and advancing technological infrastructure for over 23,000 Italian Public Administrations, benefiting the entire population. Recognizing the prevalence of open source solutions within its portfolio, the company initiated a strategic endeavor: assembling a specialized multidisciplinary group of experts in FOSS to define a company-wide strategy. This effort culminated in the establishment of the Open Source Program Office, marking a pioneering move for an Italian public entity. During this presentation we will delve into the company's new open source strategy, emphasizing its alignment with the Italian national open source guidelines. Additionally, we will explore the pivotal role of the OSPO, serving as a vital link between the company's internal operations and the dynamic FOSS communities. Guided by the open source maturity model, the company aims to evolve from being a conscientious user of FOSS solutions to assuming a central position as a key contributor, thus benefiting the broader ecosystem.

The importance of software in the automotive industry is growing every year, and the use of open source is also increasing. Especially recently, software development related to SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) has become active. Therefore, the recent trend in the automotive industry is not only to simply use open source software, but also to contribute to open source development. In Europe, there are many cases where companies in the automotive industry have established OSPO and provide information, and OSPO's contribution to the community is also remarkable. This session will feature a panel discussion among OSPO leaders from the automotive industry, including Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Toyota. They will share the background of their OSPOs, the activities they focus on, and we will discuss trends in the industry. You will learn in this session that the form of OSPO varies from company to company, even in the same industry, and we aim to provide you with tips on how you can promote your open source activities.

The data available about open source projects can feel like a tsunami, but there are ways to make this more manageable by focusing on the metrics that matter the most for your OSPO. This session will highlight how OSPOs can use data to generate meaningful insights about the open source software communities that are important for your business. This talk will start with a discussion about how to approach the tsunami of data by moving from data points toward insight and wisdom about your open source software. We’ll start with data collection and processing before discussing how collections of metrics can be used to understand your community more holistically than looking at individual metrics. The final section will include examples of how to interpret the data to move beyond analysis and find tangible ways to improve your OSS projects. We’ll show examples from Augur and 8Knot to show what is possible with structured data and metrics from the CHAOSS project. The audience will walk away with tips and techniques for making sense of those waves of data using collections of metrics and data science to result in actionable insights about your open source software.

Join the TODO Group and CURIOSS community for an interactive session where attendees can share use cases on how their organizations are investing in academic research.
Explore practices for transferring knowledge from academia and the research community.

We welcome open source managers, OSPO leaders, and other stakeholders from organizations and universities engaged in research or interested to learn more.