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Collaborative Whitepaper - Open Source in Business

Working Group Folder

Slack channel #wg-oss-in-business

Follow-up happening during Thursday TODO Europe Touchpoint CallS

Motivation

While the engineering-driven approach to open source is well-covered,a business-driven approach is less discussed but crucial for organizations to understand how open source can drive both innovation and financial value. This initiative was initiated as part of the TODO Group’s Touchpoint calls to create a guide to address the gap in knowledge and strategic guidance around open source adoption from a business-driven perspective.

Full proposal can be found here. Apporved proposal and rationale can be found here

Key Areas to explore:

  1. Provide businesses with tools to integrate open source into their core strategy.
  2. Help non-software-native companies (e.g., hardware or manufacturing) understand how open source can play a role in their business models.
  3. Educate business managers on the long-term investments required for successful open source strategies (e.g., building and nurturing open source communities).

Initial Outline

Glossary and Background - Existing frameworks and models Engineering Driven vs. Business Driven Open Source Misconceptions and Challenges Communicating Engineering Benefits to Business Value Case Studies and Success Stories Future work and conclusion
Guide's purpose and audience Definitions Misconceptions managers have about open source How to communicate open source benefits to business managers Neutral collaboration: Stories from organizations like LF Energy’s OpenSTEF Creating a living document that evolves with community input
Open source in modern business Implementation strategies for business-driven Addressing security concerns and support availability Simplifying complex concepts for managerial understanding Real-life examples to cluster open source suppliers to assess if they are open source first Recap of the guide’s key points
Carl-Eric Mols' “Principles for Industrial Open Source” Connecting the two perspectives for a holistic approach Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) when publishing software resources for managers to engage with open source effectively Real-life examples that shares a system that enables organizations  to asses “What do I want to reach by open-sourcing this?”  
Magnus presentation at FOSSNorth   How to properly budget or allocate resources for OSPOs?      
Mozilla archetypes and Heather Meeker’s frameworks          

To learn more about outline updates please visit the dedicated GH Discussions repo here

What's next?

Plan to move forward in the next TODO Europe Chapter Call. This is scheduled for next September, Thursday 26th from 1pm to 2pm CEST, and you are more than welcome to join and invite your peers interested to contribute to this initiative.

Proposed areas to cover in this section are:

  • Recap on the outline that participants worked on in the past call

    Glossary and Background Existing frameworks and models Engineering Driven vs. Business Driven Open Source Misconceptions and Challenges Communicating Engineering Benefits to Business Value Case Studies and Success Stories Future work and conclusion

  • Define workstreams/cluster of tasks and give them an order/priority. Make sure there are “owners” for each workstream

  • Discuss if further follow-ups should be done in these meetings or need to allocate specific catch up calls/official working group under TODO