Open Source Summit North America 2025

The University of California’s network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) launched last year, bringing together six campuses (UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego) to support open source research, promote sustainability, and establish best practices within academic environments.
A key challenge in this effort is identifying and connecting open source projects across the system. Despite UC’s significant contributions to open source, there is no centralized way to track these efforts, making it difficult for researchers to find relevant projects, for institutions to assess impact, and for the broader community to engage with UC’s open source work.
To address this, the UC OSPO Network is developing the UC Open Source Repository Browser (UC ORB), a discovery tool designed to map and classify UC’s open source projects.
This talk will explore the process of building the UC ORB, from leveraging the GitHub API for data collection to integrating automated discovery with targeted outreach to the academic community. We will discuss the challenges of repository identification, compare similar approaches, and share lessons learned throughout the process.

In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, alignment of open source initiatives and product-focused research & development (R&D) efforts are crucial to achieving strategic business goals. Establishing a dedicated Open Source Program Office (OSPO) plays a critical role in ensuring effective strategy, governance, fostering community engagement, and maximizing the benefits of open source contributions. However, an OSPO must connect these high-level principles with the needs and day-to-day operations of R&D organizations to ensure their effectiveness.

In this presentation, Georg and David will represent the OSPO and R&D at Ericsson. They will share insights into a set of concrete real-world cases and challenges, such as facilitating upstream contributions to the Linux kernel, establishing the Valkey project, and eliminating downstream forks. Based on these examples, they will delve into the intricacies of establishing an effective collaboration between the OSPO and R&D departments, highlighting how to bridge the gap between the needs of product team and the overarching company strategy.

Open source has become mainstream; but not everyone knows what the term really means or how to succeed with it. New legal regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the EU will raise further awareness and require everyone to pay closer attention to open source software. However, there are also equal pressures to streamline and cut costs, often resulting in scaling back open source programs.

This panel brings you speakers in different job roles, including community manager, OSPO program compliance manager, open source maintainer, and standards lead. The panelists will explore their responsibilities, interactions and strategies for success to capture why each of these roles are critical to the success and sustainability of the open source ecosystem, whether we look at open source projects or corporate organizations whose products and services depend on open source.

Join us to learn about how you can build and leverage versatile teams to succeed with open source sustainably!

The financial industry is navigating an ocean of regulations, where compliance and innovation often feel like opposing forces. But what if there was a way to align them? Enter InnerSource—the open-source-inspired approach that fosters collaboration, accelerates development, and enhances regulatory transparency within financial institutions. Explore how the InnerSource Commons Foundation and the FINOS foundation are partnering to navigate the murky waters of regulation within the concept of openness inside of the FINTECH industry.

In this session, Brittany Istenes (FINOS) and Russ Rutledge (InnerSource Commons) will share how they are using InnerSource principles and guidance as a life preserver to help FINTECH firms navigate regulatory challenges.

Join us to explore real-world success stories and actionable strategies that demonstrate how InnerSource can transform challenges into opportunities for innovation to sail into calmer seas.

The rapid pace of innovation is accelerating, and the role of open technologies and methodologies (i.e., open source software, open AI, open data, open collaboration, etc.) have become increasingly critical to enable company competitiveness. Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) have emerged as a best practice to facilitate company collaboration and innovation with open source software, yet this org pattern is flexible and scalable to other “opens”. Come explore how organizations can adapt their OSPOs to be Open Program Offices (OPOs) and respond to rapid advancements in openness, especially for open community AI.

In particular, we’ll discuss:
- How to optimize the OPO organization for AI – what is different and what is leverageable
- Practical approaches for embedding openness of all kinds into your organization
- Where best to locate an OPO in an organization and the implications of the options
- Extending to open standards and open hardware
- How to drive org alignment and shape your open strategy

Openness is more than a philosophy—it’s a competitive advantage for the future of AI and for community development of any size.