The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2022

Your OSPO is at the center of gravity for your organization’s open source efforts, and your policies can help your employees contribute to open source projects or hinder them in ways that you might not expect. Do employees think of your OSPO as the “Office of No”, or do they see you as a strategic partner? This talk will focus on ways to structure your policies to foster strategic alignment between individual employee contributors, your company, and open source communities to help all of us become more successful and productive by working together. The talk contains several major sections. 1) Taking a strategic approach to partnering across your organization. 2) Crafting OSPO policies to contribute to open source projects in ways that will benefit your company, your employees, and the open source community. 3) Tips for being a good corporate citizen as you contribute to open source communities. The audience will walk away with practical tips about ways to use your OSPO to improve the open source experience for your employees.