Back to school, to learn more from the industrial field!
Michelin, a 136-year-old industrial giant, is building its open source culture. This talk is a feedback from our OSPO, detailing our strategy, governance, and change management programs. We’ll share our progress and achievements, our key lessons, and the significant challenges still ahead on our journey.
Save the date.
- 📅 Friday, September 18th
- ⏰ 10:30-12:00 CEST
- 🎙️ Julien Millau, Distinguished Engineer at Michelin.
- 📜 From Tires to Code: Building Michelin’s OSPO.
As usual, it is an online event open to all with no registration in a safe environment. Just come and grab a seat. Please connect to our 🌐 BigBlueButton instance on the given date and time. You can import this specific session into your calendar with this 📅 ICS file.
Launching an OSPO in a global, non-tech-native corporation presents unique cultural, legal, and organizational hurdles. This session provides a practical feedback on how Michelin built and now operates its OSPO. We will walk through the entire journey, covering:
- The historical context and business strategy that drove the need for a formal OSPO.
- The practical steps of establishing a strong governance model and the OSPO’s structure
- A deep dive into our multi-faceted program for cultural change. This is now the core of our strategy and includes:
- Company-wide training modules (which we are now in the process of open sourcing).
- A gamified badging system to incentivise learning and contribution.
- The creation and management of an OSS Champions community to scale our efforts.
- Our approach to external communication
- The tools we use.
- And finally, the road ahead us: the significant challenges that remain on our journey.
The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides an open, neutral and friendly forum, low-threshold entry point to exchange and learn about the basics of how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started with open source. More on the dedicated page.