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The US and China’s AI Action Plans are now published. What should OSPO leaders do next?

July, 2025

Key Highlights from China’s Global AI Governance Plan

July, 2025

The U.S. Strategy for AI Leadership: A Closer Look at the 2025 America’s AI Action Plan

July, 2025

Open Source and AI: Why Model Openness Will Define the Next Decade

July, 2025

Reflections on AI Coding Assistants and Open Source Snippets

June, 2025

Bridging Principles and Pragmatism: Reflections on the OSI’s Open Source AI Definition Adoption Barriers

May, 2025

Reflections on the Open Source AI Definition and Mapping it to the Model Openness Framework

April, 2025

The Model Openness Framework: Promoting Completeness and Openness for Reproducibility, Transparency and Usability in Artificial Intelligence

June, 2024

National Strategies

From Linux to AI: China’s Open Source Revolution

October, 2025

Building an Open Source Nation: Japan’s 30-Year Journey and the Lessons for Governments and Industry

October, 2025

Lessons Learned from China’s Open Source Journey

September, 2025

Legal Compliance

SBOM Adoption: In Support of Better License Compliance and Software Security Practices

October, 2025

Building Trust Through Transparency: Why SPDX Is Foundational for Software Supply Chain Integrity

June, 2025

Operationalizing Software Trust: Why OpenChain Matters!

June, 2025

Reflections on AI Coding Assistants and Open Source Snippets

June, 2025

Addressing Key Open Source License Compliance Challenges

June, 2022

13 Practices to Help Improve Your Open Source Legal Compliance

August, 2021

The Race to Solve Compliance Challenges

April, 2021

An Open Guide to Evaluating Software Composition Tools

November, 2020

Practical Advice to Scale Open Source Legal Support

June, 2013

Publishing Source Code for FOSS Compliance: Lightweight Process and Checklists

February, 2012

A Five-Step Compliance Process for FOSS Identification and Review

June, 2011

Achieving FOSS Compliance in the Enterprise

December, 2010

A Glimpse into Recommended Practices in FOSS Compliance Management Process

October, 2010

FOSS Compliance: Who Does What – Roles and Responsibilities

September, 2010

Establishing Free and Open Source Software Programs: Challenges and Solutions

July, 2010

Free and Open Source Software Compliance: The Basic You Must Know

June, 2010

Gov OSPO and Digital Public Infrastructure

Governing Our Digital Future: Every Government Needs an Open Source Program Office

March, 2026

Governing Open Source as National Infrastructure

February, 2026

Beyond Source Code: The Case for Government Open Source Program Offices in the Context of Digital Public Infrastructure

August, 2025

Leveraging Open Source to Build Digital Public Infrastructure that is Inclusive, Transparent, and Scalable

August, 2025

Development & Strategy

The New Responsibility of Open Source Program Offices: Risk Forecasting

November, 2025

Looking at Developer Experience from an Open Source Perspective

September, 2025

Building an AI-First Engineering Culture

July, 2025

What’s Next for Open Collaboration?

July, 2025

The AI-First OSPO: Empowering Open Source Strategy with Intelligence

July, 2025

Open Source and AI: Why Model Openness Will Define the Next Decade

July, 2025

Building Trust Through Transparency: Why SPDX Is Foundational for Software Supply Chain Integrity

June, 2025

Reflections on AI Coding Assistants and Open Source Snippets

June, 2025

Bridging Principles and Pragmatism: Reflections on the OSI’s Open Source AI Definition Adoption Barriers

May, 2025

Empowering Developers Through Shift-Left and Better Developer Experience

May, 2025

Empowering Developers Through Shift-Left and Better Developer Experience

May, 2025

Reflections on the Open Source AI Definition and Mapping it to the Model Openness Framework

April, 2025

CLAIMED: The Open Source Framework for Building Coarse-Grained Operators for Accelerated Discovery in Science

July, 2023

Interactive Open Source AI & Data Landscape

December, 2020

Open Source Program Offices: The Primer on Organizational Structures, Roles and Responsibilities, and Challenges

November, 2019

Open Source Program Offices: The Primer on Organizational Structures, Roles and Responsibilities, and Challenges

November, 2019

Practical Guide to Improve Your Open Source Development Impact

September, 2017

Using Open Source Code

June, 2017

Improving Your Open Source Development Impact

January, 2017

A Due Diligence Process for Releasing Proprietary Source Code under an Open Source License

February, 2012

Upstreaming: Strengthening Open Source Development

January, 2012

Open Sourcing Proprietary Technology Made Simple: A High Level Roadmap for Open Sourcing Your Code

January, 2012

Establishing an Open Source Software Strategy: Key Considerations and Tactical Recommendations

November, 2011

The Unofficial How-To of Open Sourcing: Best practices and lessons learned

September, 2007

Good and Bad Reasons to Open Source Your Software: How do you measure up?

September, 2007

Is the Open Source Development Model Right for Your Organization? A roadmap to open source adoption

February, 2007

Adopting an Open Source Approach to Software Development, Distribution, and Licensing: Advantages, Risks, Culture Change, and Strategies

October, 2006