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Measuring OSPO Value

Dawn Foster — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:17:37 GMT

Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) play important roles within organizations, but that role isn’t always appreciated or understood within the executive team or by other stakeholders. In the current financial climate, some OSPOs have been the targets of cutbacks and layoffs, so this is a particularly important time for OSPOs to be clear about the value that they provide to their organization. Leaders within every organization are responsible for making sure that their organization focuses on the activities that have the biggest impact on helping that organization achieve their goals. As a result, OSPOs need to be able to demonstrate that the value of their work can have a larger impact on the organization than the other initiatives that are also competing for resources. As the CHAOSS OSPO Metrics Working Group co-chair and CHAOSS board member, the topic of measuring OSPO value is one that I have cared deeply about for years, and I recently gave a talk on this topic at the Open Source Summit North America in May. This is why I was so excited to read Ibrahim Haddad’s latest report, Measuring OSPO Value: A Framework for ROI, Resilience, Risk Foresight, and Strategic Influence, and share a few highlights from the report in this blog post.

Strengthening LFX Mentoring: A Fairer Stipend Model and a Shared Standard of Excellence

Linux Foundation — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:27:58 GMT

Two updates that help our growing mentorship community do its best work.

Who will be the senior engineers of 2036?

Mirko Boehm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:10:04 GMT

The CRA Readiness Reality: What Changed (and What Didn’t) Between 2025 and 2026?

Angelah Liu — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:47:06 GMT

In 2025, Linux Foundation Research, Linux Foundation Europe, and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) published Unaware and Uncertain: The Stark Realities of Cyber Resilience Act Readiness in Open Source. It took a survey-based look at how prepared the open source ecosystem was for the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA). The headline finding was blunt: 62% of respondents had little to no familiarity with a regulation that would reshape how software gets built, shipped, and maintained across global supply chains. The hope was that with a year to go before the CRA enters into force, community education initiatives and a growing body of guidance would move the readiness needle.

Linux Foundation Newsletter: June 2026

andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter

June is a big month for learning, certification, and career growth across the Linux Foundation community. The Prime Time to Save promotion is here, bringing massive opportunities for professional development with savings of up to 75% on vendor-neutral training, certifications, bundles, and subscriptions across Linux, cloud native, cybersecurity, AI, and more. Offer runs June 23–26.

Beyond education, this month’s newsletter highlights how open source is moving deeper into production systems across AI infrastructure, confidential computing, open network APIs, and automotive software. You’ll find updates on agentic AI deployments, landmark GDPR guidance, four critical open source surveys, open source safety certification, and a busy global events calendar.

Here are this month's Highlights:

LF Research fields critical surveys:
Pick one, pick two, or take them all; LF Research has four active surveys covering Generative AI and OSS Development, the 2026 State of OSPOs, AI Security, and the World of Open Source. You can also review two new reports on CRA readiness and Europe's tech talent. — Take the Surveys, Read New Reports

AAIF advances agentic AI infrastructure: The Agentic AI Foundation is growing rapidly, welcoming agentgateway as a hosted project and releasing goose v1.36.0 with a new hooks system. Meanwhile, the MLOps Community joins as an official affiliated user community. — agentgateway Hosted, goose v1.36.0 Release
Confidential Computing secures the AI era: Sweden's Data Protection Authority issued landmark GDPR guidance confirming TEEs as a technical safeguard in real operational deployments. The CCC also released the "3 Degrees of Confidential Computing" white paper and announced a new webinar on Agentic AI. — GDPR Guidance on TEEs, 3 Degrees of CC White Paper
Events season continues across the globe: LF communities are gathering worldwide with Open Source Summit Korea, the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, and three flagship AGNTCon + MCPCon gatherings coming to Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Jose. — Open Source Summit Korea, AGNTCon + MCPCon Fall Events

>> Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

AI, Open Source, and the Skills Imperative: Unpacking the 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe Report

Linux Foundation Europe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:27:05 GMT

This blog was originally posted on June 8, 2026, on the Linux Foundation Europe website. The original can be found here: https://linuxfoundation.eu/newsroom/ai-open-source-and-the-skills-imperative-unpacking-the-2026-state-of-tech-talent-europe-report

Taking Stock of the State of European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance: An Urgent Wake-up Call for the Open Source Ecosystem

Christopher Robinson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:46 GMT

This blog post was originally posted on the OpenSSF blog on May 18, 2026. You can access the original here: https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/18/taking-stock-of-the-state-of-european-cyber-resilience-act-cra-compliance-an-urgent-wake-up-call-for-the-open-source-ecosystem/

Navigating the 2026 Tech Talent Landscape: Why Upskilling Is Our Best Answer to the AI Skills Crisis

Hilary Carter — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:09:46 GMT

What’s the real story behind AI and IT staffing projections? Over the past year, mainstream headlines have frequently painted a grim picture of artificial intelligence systematically replacing the technical workforce. However, our newly released 2026 State of Tech Talent Report tells a fundamentally different and far more nuanced story.

TODO Group Launches New Working Group on Agentic AI to Empower Open Source Program Offices

andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation) — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:20:06 GMT

To explore AI agent workflows and the role of open source management

The TODO Group is launching a new Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs Working Group, a community-led effort for Open Source Program Office (OSPO) practitioners and open source management professionals to explore how AI agents are beginning to shape the day-to-day work of OSPOs.

Linux Foundation Newsletter: May 2026

andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation) — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

May is a big month for learning, certification, and career growth across the Linux Foundation community. The first-ever Mega May Cyber Boost is here, bringing a little extra arcade energy to professional development with savings of up to 65% on vendor-neutral training, certifications, bundles, subscriptions, and instructor-led courses across Linux, cloud native, cybersecurity, AI, embedded systems, and more. Offer ends May 20.

Beyond education, this month’s newsletter highlights how open source is moving deeper into production systems across AI infrastructure, cloud native, energy, finance, cloud cost management, networking, digital trust, media, and safety-critical software. You’ll find updates on model inference, agent gateways, Kubernetes and observability, production energy systems, financial services infrastructure, responsible AI governance, and a busy global events calendar.

Here are this month’s highlights:

Training gets a May power-up: The first-ever Mega May Cyber Boost brings savings of up to 65% on Linux Foundation training, certifications, bundles, subscriptions, and instructor-led courses through May 20. Start with the full promotion or browse current training options — Mega May Cyber Boost, Linux Foundation Training
LF projects keep powering AI infrastructure: PyTorch Foundation project vLLM delivered Day 0 support for DeepSeek V4, while LF AI & Data’s Agentgateway crossed 5 million downloads since the start of the year, showing how LF-hosted projects are becoming part of the operating layer for open models, inference, gateways, and agentic workloads — vLLM + DeepSeek V4, Agentgateway 5M Downloads
Open source is showing up in industry infrastructure: Across energy, finance, and cloud cost management, LF communities are turning shared code into production systems, from TenneT’s 10× faster grid security analysis with PowSyBl to FINOS’s open source fabric for high-performance computing and FinOps X’s focus on AI, SaaS, data center, and token economics — TenneT and PowSyBl, This Week at FINOS, FinOps Foundation
Open infrastructure keeps expanding: Core projects continue to ship across cloud native, AI, networking, and observability, including Kubernetes v1.36, ONNX v1.21.0, eBPF security work, and practical migration guidance for modern platform teams. Read the latest releases and updates — Kubernetes v1.36, ONNX v1.21.0, eBPF Security Update
Events season is heating up: LF communities are gathering across North America, Europe, and Asia, with Open Source Summit North America, the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, FinOps X, the Open Source Policy & Ecosystem Forum, DPDK Summit, and AAIF’s AGNTCon + MCPCon events in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Jose. Mark your calendar — Open Source Summit North America, LF AI & Data Mini Summit, AGNTCon + MCPCon Fall Events

>> Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.