The diagram below maps how this actually works: city leadership (Management) stands up the OSPO and receives its reports, while the OSPO runs the concrete machinery of an open source program for the rest of the organization — compliance review, contribution approval, participation guidelines, and training — and measures the results. As the office matures, its relationship with the wider open source community deepens too: from simple communication, to funding the projects the city depends on, to actively contributing code and eventually leading initiatives within that community. That's the difference between endorsing open source as a value and running a program for it: a distinct office with the mandate to make agencies’ open source use consistent, secure, and reciprocal, instead of leaving it to whichever developer happens to be motivated.
United StatesOSPO at Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Guidance, policies, practices, and talent pipelines for working openly across CMS, HHS, and federal open source ecosystems.
InternationalUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP Open Source Ecosystem Enablement.
GermanyOpen Source Program Office City of Munich
Use – Improve – Publish: FOSS at the City of Munich.
GermanyOpen Source Program Office of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
The state government’s coordination office for the strategic use of open source, aimed at digital sovereignty.
DenmarkOS2 – Public Digitalization Network
An organisation of public bodies in Denmark that together develop, mature, and maintain public code.
GreeceOpen Technologies Centre at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Promotes open technologies — free for any user to use, analyze, modify, and redistribute.
FrancePôle Open Source et Communs Numériques de la DINUM
A mission dedicated to the use, development, and promotion of Free Software and digital commons in public administration.
FranceANSSI
The team handling open source topics at the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI).
FranceOSPO de France Travail
France Travail’s (the French employment agency) Open Source Programme Office.
FranceOSPO de la Ville de Paris
Open Source Program Office for the City of Paris.
FrancePôle de compétences Logiciels Libres de l’Éducation nationale
Develops open source software for the French national education system.
FranceCellule Codes Données Grenoble Alpes
Supports the Grenoble area’s scientific communities on matters relating to research data and code.
FranceDirection de la stratégie et de la culture numériques (DSCN), Échirolles
Responsible for digital technology and strategy for the city of Échirolles.
FranceOSPO de l’IGN
The Open Source Programme Office of the French National Institute for Geographic and Forestry Information.
FranceRECIA
A Public Interest Group providing shared IT services to French schools.
FranceOSPO de la Ville et l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg
The "Free Software Strategy" unit of the city and Eurometropole of Strasbourg, promoting the use and development of Free Software within the territory.
NetherlandsOSPO National Government The Netherlands
The national OSPO of the Netherlands, currently housed at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK).
NetherlandsDeveloper.overheid.nl
The developer portal of the Dutch government.