2024-08-06-SAT

OSPO-EG Charter Draft

The OSPO Expert Group is responsible for promoting contributions to open source software by engineers in automotive industry. OSPO-EG activity covers the following:

• Encourage companies to launch their OSPO
• Offer a place to share pain points and best practices to resolve them
• Publish documents of the best practices for common pain points
• Reach out companies outside AGL community and invite them
• (tentative) Encourage open discussion for improvement of OSS development model within the industry

Tentative Task List

Meta Tasks

• Get an approval for the OSPO-EG charter
• Form the OSPO-EG Team
  • See 'Possible Members' below
• Get an approval for this concrete process at SAT/SC?
• Create links to OSPO-EG Home on Confluence landing page (https://lf-automotivelinux.atlassian.net)
• Create OSPO-EG Charter Page on the AGL Wiki (e.g., https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-sat-charter) 
• Set up regular meetings of the OSPO EG 

OSPO-EG Tasks

• List of questions asking for pain points
• List of common pain points/work items and possible resolutions
  • How to get approval to launch an OSPO from the company → template presentation deck
  • How to allocate work effort of OSPO members
    • → In case of Toyota, everyone is parttime (and busy)
  • How to keep consistency with (or transitional replacement/improvement of) existing processes
  • github account (unified/separate? cost burden?)
  • monitoring employee community activity
  •  Accounting process of software asset (Tax Office facing)
    •  Looks like it depend on countries (and companies?). At least in Japan, VERY painful. On the contrary, this issue does not exist in Germany.
• Describe differences between TODO Group/OpenChain OSPO-SG
  • AGL OSPO-EG is open to anyone and the primary focus is automotive related OSS (e.g., AGL UCB)
• Example organizational design
  •  Can be a reference design?
• Example strategy?
• ...

Possible Members

The following companies expressed positive responses/intentions to join OSPO-EG at the AMM Summer 2024 (at least to me (Itoh)).

• AGL Members
  • Toyota
  • Honda
  • Panasonic
  • AISIN
  • Renesas
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • ...
• Non-AGL Members
  • ETAS
  • Bosch
  • A non-Japanese OEM
  • ...

Time Line

• Approvals for Charter by:
  • SAT ~ Sep. 4 (next^2 regular meeting)
  • SC ~ Next SC meeting after Sep. 4 (next SAT meeting)
• OSSEU 2024
  • F2F discussion with various people/companies
• ALS/OSSJ 2024
  • Dan's Keynote official announcement
  • Panel Discussion

Notes (Aug. 6, 2024)

• Actually, I don't know well how I can proceed this work. Especially, what should be approved and by whom?