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2025-11-25-OSPO-EG

2025-11-25-OSPO-EG

November 25, 2025, 12:00am (UTC) / 10:00pm(JST) via Zoom

Attendees

  • Jan-Simon (Linux Foundation)

  • Walt Miner (Linux Foundation)

  • Masanori Itoh (Toyota)

  • Masato Endo (Toyota)

  • Hiroyuki Ishii (Panasonic)

  • Naoto Yamaguchi (AISIN)

  • Nobuta (Fujitsu)

  • Philipp Ahmann (Etas)

  • Jaylin (EMQ)

  • Takashi Ninjoji (Honda)

  • …

Discussion Materials

  • OSPO-EG

Next Meeting

TBD

Agenda/Minutes

  1. Re-consideration of OSPO-EG Operations

Survey Latest Result (Responses)

  • en: 25

  • ja: 36(+1)

  • cn(simplified): 6(+6) <-Thanks @Jaylin !!

  • cn(traditional): 2

  • total: 25+35+6+2=69

Discussions within Co-Lead team (Endo, Itoh, Ishii) since Nov. 11 Call

  1. Background

    1. Key finding from of survey: Culture change in companies is critical—evaluation systems, executive mindset, and legal policies need transformation.

      1. Lack of Recognition for Contributions
        → OSS work often undervalued compared to core business results.

      2. Insufficient Industry Urgency
        → “Nice to have” attitude risks losing competitiveness in the SDV era.

      3. Policy Alone Is Not Enough
        → Requires industry-wide and corporate-level commitment.

    2. Resource Constraints of OSPO-EG core members: Few dedicated people; heavy actions difficult.

      1. The biweekly regular meetings have become a burden for the members, yet they are not producing satisfactory results

      2. Since the meetings are virtual and conducted in English, cannot effectively draw out participants’ challenges or ideas

  2. Agreed Points in the OSPO-EG Co-Lead team

    1. Pause regular bi-weekly calls; shift to needs-based, ad-hoc activities.

    2. As part of EG’s ongoing efforts, conduct workshops and/or BoFs at AMM, ALS, and similar events, and focus on awareness activities to foster cultural change identified as a key issue in the survey (executive engagement is just one example).

    3. Strengthen discovery of concrete action plans through individual interviews and face-to-face sessions (not limited to Japanese companies).

  3. Next Actions

    • Complete company interviews by January.

    • Develop executive messaging:
      “Is your company exposed to OSS risks? Please review internally.”

    • Plan BoF sessions (and F2F workshops) at AMM/ALS.

    • Update the Executive Deck (as needed)

 

Original version w.r.t. industry view points before autmotive/non-automotive separation.

  • Challenges

    • Lack of Recognition for Contributions
      → OSS work often undervalued compared to core business results.

    • Insufficient Industry Urgency
      → “Nice to have” attitude risks losing competitiveness in the SDV era.

    • Policy Alone Is Not Enough
      → Requires industry-wide and corporate-level commitment.

    • Limited Resources
      → Current efforts rely on only three co-leads.

  • Next Actions

    • Complete targeted company interviews by January (e.g., AISIN, NISSAN, FUJITSU).

    • Develop executive messaging:
      “Is your company exposed to OSS risks? Please review internally.”

    • Plan BoF sessions (and F2F workshops) at AMM/ALS.

    • Re-analyze free-text survey responses to reinforce the Executive Deck.

  • Discussion

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Ref: discussion on Nov.11 call

  1. By a comparison between the answers from Japan and the rest of world, we can find two types of fundamental issue:

    1. Lack of personal skills in Japanese engineers (technical skill, knowledge or language)

    2. Time constraints among all over the world

  2. Discussions regarding how we can find out possible action plans for those issues

    1. Endo-san, Ito-san and Ishii will have further discussions/brainstorming locally

    2. Walt suggested some ideas to gather the information and ideas among community. To do that, we have to clarify what exactly we want to know/point out.

      1. Sharing our toughts via SNS posts by Walt/LF

      2. Sharing our extra questionaries by QR code in Walt’s session in ALS

      3. Having discussions/BoF during ALS for this topic (even in Japanese)