OSPOs: Key Lever for Open Source Sustainability

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Organizations that want to act on sustainability get concrete starting points: a public OSPO definition repo (maintained since 2020) and a collated book project of practices, a free OSPO 101 course on the TODO GitHub, and examples of funding models (Spotify Fast Fund, Indeed’s contributor fund, Bloomberg’s fund, GitHub Sponsors). Assessments and anti‑patterns appear in TODO guides; assessments show 65% of upstream‑contributing organizations run a formal OSPO. Focus is on policies, training, tooling, funding choices, and measurable community health.

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1. 0:00OSPOs introduction
2. 8:31Open source sustainability
3. 18:56What is an OSPO
4. 24:12Assessing OSPO readiness
5. 33:09OSPO best practices
6. 41:17Key takeaways & Q&A

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