The “Open Source Good Governance” handbook now available in six languages!
Thanks to the collaborative effort from the open source community, the OSPO Alliance GGI Handbook is today’s most translated document to help organisations building OSPOs.
Paris, October 2, 2023 – The members of the OSPO Alliance are proud to announce the availability of the Good Governance Initiative Handbook in six languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). With this major achievement, the handbook reaches out a potential of thousands of readers (472 millions of persons are speaking one of the translated languages, including the Brazilians).
The GGI methodology to help implement corporate-wide open source policies, and set up an OSPO “Open Source Program Office”, can now be easily exported and used worldwide.
Thanks to the open translation process applied, a large number of contributors has already been involved and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Based on the open source collaborative management tool Weblate, this process enables translators to benefit from an easy to use interface and tight version control integration, along with quality checks. Other languages will come in the future, including Chinese which has been started.
In parallel of translations, other developments are happening such as the improvement of the implementation methodology, with the GGI Automated Deployment feature. New governance rules allow today to manage the initiative as an open source project. Several Task Forces are also meeting regularly and addressing specific topics, such as the metrics integrated to measure successes at each step, or the integration of InnerSource in the methodology.
The OnRamp monthly meeting series is a unique communication channel set up to give more visibility about the existing tools and methods, the best practices, but also to showcase testimonies and real-life OSPO stories. Join the next online OnRamp meeting, October 20 at 10:30 CEST, where Anne-Marie Scott, Apereo Foundation, will talk about OSPO in the Academic World.
The GGI methodology will be soon presented publicly in some major open source conferences, in Italy (RIOS Open Source Week, October 3-5 in Roma and SFScon, Bolzano, November 10-11) and in Germany (EclipseCon, October 16-19, in Ludwisburg).
About OSPO Alliance and GGI:
The OSPO Alliance is an open community that brings and shares guidance to organisations willing to professionally manage the usage, contribution to and publication of open source software. The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) proposes a methodological framework to assess and improve open-source trust, awareness and strategy within organisations. The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides an open, neutral and friendly forum, low-threshold entry point to exchange and learn about the basics of how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started with open source. GGI and the OnRamp series are key initiatives from the OSPO Alliance. Learn more on https://ospo-alliance.org and follow us on X (@OSPOAlliance) and Mastodon (@OSPOAlliance@mastodon.opencloud.lu).
Contacts:
• OW2 – Catherine Nuel catherine.nuel@ow2.org - +33 (0)6 777 95 915
• Eclipse Foundation – Florent Zara florent.zara@eclipse-foundation.org
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