The Evolution of OSPOs
summary
A concise history and playbook: corporate OSPOs begin at Sun in 1999 leading to first corporate OSPO (Sun, 1999); between 2000–2010 tools like OpenOffice reach mass uptake (~1.6 million downloads per release) and programs such as Google Summer of Code seed contributors; by 2015 vendors shift stance and by 2020 the EU recommends municipal OSPOs. Examples of public-sector work include the Covid Green tracing app for Ireland and Paris’s 217 open services; proposal centers on an OSPO++ network (mosslabs.io) to scale shared code, data and turnkey solutions for ~35,000 small U.S. municipalities.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to OSPOs
- 2:10First corporate OSPO at Sun
- 9:13Paleolithic era of OSPOs
- 11:43Mesolithic transition in OSPOs
- 17:23Neolithic era of OSPOs
- 23:23OSPOs for public good
- 27:56Modern OSPO networks and challenges
- 30:06Q&A on OSPO triggers and evolution
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