Oversee project quality and to make sure that guard rails are in place if issues arise.

Generate data to prove ROI for your program office and open source strategy, in general.

Automate critical and repeatable tasks such as code review and tracking and license compliance.

Provide a workplace for collaboration and code building.

Once your open source program office is up and running, it’s time to collect the right software tools that will allow your development teams to manage, track, guide, and advance their open source projects, contributions, and releases. You’ll also find an example dashboard setup which combines and displays information from multiple tools.

Many of the tools have been created and open-sourced by The Linux Foundation and other leaders in the field, providing free and easy access for your projects. This guide provides details and scenarios for how to get your open source tool collection started, including information about the most important tools to use to track and manage your open source projects. These mission-critical tools will be used to track goals and metrics in departments from engineering and legal to executive leadership, PR, and marketing, and give employees all the resources they need to gather data, provide snapshots of performance, and manage the daily use of open source within your company. To get such an office underway and running smoothly, you need the right tools.

The road to strategic use of open source starts with a carefully planned, organized, and empowered open source program office to guide and manage its creation, distribution, and use.

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