Guides and Resources

We collect best practices from the leading companies engaged in open source development and aim to help your organization successfully implement and run an open source program office. For guides tailored to individual contributors, we recommend GitHub’s community guides.

OSPO Guides

To build successful Open Source Program Offices, Open Source initiatives, and for open source program management best practices, start here. All content is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

• A Guide to Outbound Open Source Software
• Building an Inclusive Open Source Community
• Building leadership in an open source community
• Creating an Open Source Commercial Ecosystem
• Employee Open Source Engagement
• How to create an open source program office
• Improve your open source development impact
• Managing Career Development within OSPOs
• Marketing Open Source Projects
• Measuring your open source program's success
• Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Easy FAQ
• Open Source Program Office Case Study Guidelines
• Open source reading list
• Organizing and Managing Open Source Events
• Participating in open source communities
• Recruiting open source developers
• Setting an Open Source Strategy
• Shutting down an open source project
• Starting an open source project
• TODO Guides Contributing Guidelines
• TODO Whitepaper Guidelines
• Tools for managing open source programs
• Using open source code