TODO Group

• Guidance, frameworks, and reference materials for open source program offices (open source governance)
• Community of practitioners from enterprises, academia, and public sector organizations sharing Open Source Program Office (OSPO) practices (community of practice)
• Workshops, guides, and templates for open source strategy, policy, and compliance processes (open source management)
• Surveys, research, and landscape reports on organizational open source adoption (research and benchmarking)
• Collaboration with Linux Foundation and related initiatives on OSPO standards, education, and tooling (open source ecosystem coordination)

More About TODO Group

TODO Group is an open collaboration project hosted by the Linux Foundation that focuses on organizational open source management, with particular emphasis on open source program offices (OSPOs). It addresses the need for structured governance, strategy, and process around how companies, academic institutions, and public sector bodies consume, contribute to, and publish open source software. The group aggregates real-world practices and frameworks for building and running OSPOs, enabling organizations to treat open source engagement as a defined function rather than an informal activity.

The project’s primary capabilities lie in developing and curating resources for open source governance (open source program management). These resources include guides on OSPO structure and chartering, strategy blueprints for open source adoption, policy templates governing contribution and upstream engagement, and checklists for compliance with open source licenses. TODO Group also offers maturity models and reference frameworks that organizations can use to evaluate and plan their OSPO capabilities across areas such as legal coordination, engineering process integration, community engagement, and open source release management.

TODO Group operates as a practitioner community (community of practice) in which OSPO and open source managers from diverse sectors share patterns, organizational models, and tooling approaches. It organizes working groups and collaborative projects that produce publicly available documentation, playbooks, and reports. These activities are designed to be vendor-neutral and are oriented toward reproducible processes that can be adapted by enterprises with different sizes, regulatory environments, and technology stacks.

In enterprise and institutional environments, TODO Group resources are used to define OSPO mandates, align open source activities with corporate or institutional strategy, implement intake and approval workflows for third-party components, and design contribution policies for developers. The project’s materials also support collaboration between engineering, legal, security, and procurement teams by giving each stakeholder group shared reference documents and terminology. OSPO practitioners use TODO Group frameworks to connect open source governance with existing practices such as software development lifecycle management, compliance programs, and risk assessment methods.

From a technical and operational standpoint, TODO Group fits into the category of open source program management (governance and strategy). It does not provide runtime software components, but instead focuses on organizational processes, role definitions, and documentation that influence how enterprises adopt and maintain open source technologies across infrastructure, application development, and data platforms. The project’s position within the Linux Foundation ecosystem allows it to interact with other open source initiatives, standards efforts, and training programs, providing organizations with aligned guidance on how OSPOs interface with broader open source communities and technical projects.