2025-06-10-OSPO-EG

June 10, 2025, 12:00am (UTC) / 09:00pm(JST) via Zoom

Attendees

• Walt (Linux Foundation)

• Jan-Simon (LF)

• Masanori Itoh (Toyota)

• Hiroyuki Ishii (Panasonic)

• Masato Endo (Toyota)

• …

Discussion Materials

• OSS & Promotion deck (v0.9.1) Publications | OSS & OSPO Promotion Slides for Automotive Companies

• Survey drafts Publications | A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry

Next Meeting

June. 24, 2025

Agenda/Minutes

1. OSS & Promotion deck final check before AG review submission (Itoh, Endo, Ishii, Walt)

2. OSS Contribution Survey (Itoh, Endo, Ishii)

3. Blog post (Endo) – maybe next time or later

Discussion

• OSS & Promotion deck

  • Final check before AB review submission

    • Publications | OSS & OSPO Promotion Slides for Automotive Companies

  • v0.9.1 with some more editorial adjustments by Endo-san based on v0.7.3 by Walt

    • v0.9.1 includes 'Contributors and License' slide (slide3)

      • 12 contributors (including 1 anonymous) and CC-BY-SA 4.0.

  • If agreed, let’s post it to AB ML for the 2 weeks review until 23 June (2 weeks before AMM)

  • Notes

    • PowerPoint font (of bullet list in slide 8) issue was due to PowerPoint version. The font is 'Sagoe UI Emoji' (Microsoft standard font). It should be rendered in color by recent version PowerPoint (e.g. Office 365)

• Survey for factors preventing OSS contribution

  • Title: ”A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry”

  • OSPO-EG co-lead team discussion results

    • Let’s go forward 2 phases approach

    • Step1: by ourselves this year

      • Primary goal is to know the reality of contribution barriers in automotive industry.

      • Statistical precision and coverage improvements are subject to Step2.

    • Step2: by professional research organization (like LF Research) next year

      • Based on the result of automotive industry, could be extended to other industries and generalize.

      • For this purpose, we need to consult with professional research firms.

  • Current draft (20260610)

    • Publications | A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry

  • Schedule

    • open: before AMM (July 8)

    • duration: 1 month(?) or 2 months (if we mention at OSSEU)

    • how to publish:

      • AGL ML

      • social media (X, linkedin, …)

• Blog post of AGL OSPO-EG activities (including the survey)

  • When is the draft due? > @Masato ENDO → by the end of the next week.

    • AMM is from 9 July. We don’t have so much time.

  • Endo-san will draft the blog and submit to Walt/LF, tentative contents below

  • Introduction of AGL OSPO-EG

    • Brief history of AGL OSPO-EG activity so far

  • Achievements / Publications

    • Executive Deck

      • This deck includes OSPO Show Case! (4 companies)

      • Planning to create a matrix with respect to combination of target level and company maturity level

    • Events

      • Co-hosted successive events with OpenChain JapanWG

        • AGL AMM Spring 2025(Tokyo)

        • OpenChain JapanWG Event (Tokyo, Feb. )

    • Surveys

      • “A Survey on the Barriers to OSS Contributions in the Automotive Industry“

        • Steps road map

        • Starting from automotive and then generalize to other industries

    • Other publications

      • OSS Contribution - Illusion and Reality

  • Pointers to various resources

    • Publications