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 of improvement for OSS development model with in the industry
Tentative Task List
Meta Tasks
- 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://confluence.automotivelinux.org/)
- Create OSPO-EG Charter Page on the AGL Wiki (e.g., https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-sat-charter)
OSPO-EG Tasks
- List of questions asking for pain points
- List of 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.
- How to get approval to launch an OSPO from the company
- 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
- ETAS
- Bosch
- Mercedes-Benz
- ...
- Non-AGL Members
- A non-Japanese OEM
- ...
Time Line
- Approvals for Charter by:
- SAT ~ Aug. 20 (next regular meeting)
- SC ~ Next SC meeting after Aug. 20 (next SAT meeting)
- ...
Notes (Aug. 6, 2024)
- Actually, I don't know well how I can proceed this work. Especially, what should be approved and by whom?