Living with Legacy: How Bosch Built an OSPO and How You Can Do It too
summary
Bosch turns 140 years of processes into a structured OSPO: central governance with regional open source officers, escalation to a core expert team, and mandatory training across ~400,000 employees to get license and risk basics right before contribution. Strategy includes inner source as a staging ground, tooling and upstream first workflows, OpenChain alignment, events and room sponsorships for maintainers, an automotive working group, and pragmatic help for the 4.8 million single‑maintainer npm repos rather than trying to staff them all.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:52Legacy challenges and risks
- 9:43From compliance to contribution
- 13:56Supporting maintainers
- 18:41Connecting communities
- 22:33Q&A
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