What Is an OSPO?
The primary characteristic of an OSPO is that it’s difficult to define in a way that other team types are not. Sales sells things, Marketing promotes and builds brands, Product and Development create things, Finance handles the money, but what does an OSPO do? As you’ll learn in this chapter, the answer is “it depends.” OSPOs can perform many different functions, depending upon the strategic needs of the company and its FOSS ecosystem. That doesn’t mean we can’t define it, only that it takes a little more effort. Thankfully, and according to the FOSS Way, we can get help from others in the community.
The OSPO Alliance is an organization for “promoting excellence in open source software management.”[47] Based in Europe, housed ...
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