The first ever Helsinki OSPO Local Meetup supported by TODO Group happened yesterday

[CsatariGergely]

Yesterday a handful of OSPO euthenics gathered in the offices of HH Partners in downtown Helsinki to participate in the first ever OSPO Local Meetup in Helsinki. The nine participants had representation from Swedish and Finnish telecom and cloud gigacorporations, state owned lottery and broadcasting companies and law firms. For exciting presentations were held in the following order:

• What is TODO and what it does - Gergely Csatari (Senior Open Source Specialist at Nokia): In this welcome note Gergely introduced the TODO Group, the supporting organisation of our Meetup Group. This included the explanation of what an OSPO is, what Linux Foundation is and what TODO is. At least what Gergely thinks about these.
• OSPO, 1000 different ways to organize it, none of them are right but this is how Ericsson does it - Jimmy Ahlberg
  (Director Open Source Policy): Jimmy Ahlberg, Director Open Source Policy at Ericsson, discussed the drivers behind why Ericsson established an OSPO, why its organized the way it is, and how they view its evolution. The talk highlighted arguments for why an OSPO is needed and its tangible benefits to organizations large and small.
• Finnish open source organisations landscape - Martin von Willebrand (Partner at HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law): Martin covered the different open source related organizations active in Finland, as well as the most important international ones, taking into account the OSPO perspective. The audience learned about COSS, Validos, Double Open, FSFE, Openchain and other initiatives.
• How OSPO is organized in Veikkaus - Olli Nilsson (Open Source Officer): Veikkaus Open Source compliance journey. A quick look at the policies, processes and ways of working in OSS space at Veikkaus.

All the presentations were interrupted with questions and lively discussion as it should happen in a Meetup.

After the presentation we had a little brainstorming about the topics we would like to discuss in the future. The result is recorded here.

Slides of the presentations are stored in here.

For reference the Meetup Event page and the LF Community event page links.

Thanks to the speakers for sharing their stories, HH Partners for sponsoring the event, the participants for the lively discussion and @anajsana for the mascot design and the promotion.

After all we forgot to make a photo ¯_ツ_/¯