Welcome to Open Source Readiness (OSR)
What is it?
We produce and collect:
Why is it Important?
Open Source use and contribution are increasingly important both for strategic competitive advantage and to manage business risks.
Here are some resources to help make this case:
Distilled Best Practices
The materials on this site are built by the consensus of financial services firms. This means they reflect best practices and thinking for our industry.
How Does it Work?
Navigating Open Source Readiness
Open Source Maturity
Other Resources
This site also contains other resources to help firms on their open source journey, such as:
- A reference open source policy for FSI firms.
- An Open Source License Compliance Handbook with information about complying with common open source licenses.
How Do I Get Involved?
Meetings
First Wednesday Every Month | Third Wednesday Every Month |
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A show-and-tell covering important topics in open source. In 2024 we aim to have more guest speakers and monthly themes. Please suggest your own! | This meeting is more of a workshop session where we will try to work on articles for this site or organise further resources. |
Meetings are open to anyone who would like to participate. Previous Meeting Minutes and Agendas are available on GitHub.
Mailing List
Subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to join. You will get updates on upcoming meetings and other activity.In November 2023 the OSR SIG team are proud to announce general availability of two new Linux Foundation training products:
Please help contribute to the knowledge base or help improve our resources for open source programs. Most OSR resources are collaboratively produced as open source projects, and we're always on the lookout for ways to enable participants to share knowledge and best practices in a form that's useful to their peers.
If you have a project to propose, open a GitHub issue and share your vision!
Alternatively, most pages have an "edit" button where you can propose changes to a page via the GitHub Pull Request process.
Information Architecture
This site is designed as a collection of interconnecting documents and categories which can be browsed in any order. The following diagram summarizes the information architecture:
Please see the following introductory articles on these areas: