Ant Group (fintech company with 25K employees) has been an active participant in Open Source community with many projects, yet most projects were primarily governed and operated by Ant Group and we don't actively work with OSS Foundations, Apache Foundation included for a long time.

Founding Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and begin properly doing OSS governance has changed that. Now, Ant Group has tailored OSS technical strategy, and comprehensive internal governance process + practices + products to support the strategy. Ant Group knows the importance of building internal Open Source culture and working with the community, but it takes time for the change to happen. How can we accelerate the change?

In this duo-speaker session, we'll share our journey building our OSPO, and the learnings throughout this journey. Moreover, we'll share the story behind sending 3 projects to Apache incubation in 2023 and why we believe Apache Incubator would be the right choice.