FIGURE 31 FIGURE 32 Organizational policy on contributing Time that organizations allocate to to open source projects depending employees for open source contribution on presence of an OSPO depending on the presence of an OSPO What statement is closest to your current organization’s Over the last year, the time and effort your organization policy on contributing to open source projects? has allocated for you to contribute to open source has: (select one) segmented by: OSPO/visible leader (select one) segmented by: OSPO/visible leader Contribution is 33% 38% permitted under 34% Increased 54% some conditions 31% 20% Contribution is 28% 41% 41% Stayed 37% openly encouraged 14% the same 47% Contribution is 14% permitted if it is 16% 5% required by the Decreased 5% open source license 13% 4% Total 13% 16% OSPO/Visible Leader No clear policy 2% Don’t know 5% Neither OSPO/ 26% or not sure 29% Visible Leader 6% Contribution is 6% 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q24 X Q9, SAMPLE SIZE = 198 not permitted 6% Total Don’t know 6% OSPO/Visible Leader 2% Gil Yehuda, Head of Open Source at U.S. Bank, “Policies tend or not sure 11% Neither OSPO/Visible Leader to be about things you can’t do, not about things you should do. They are designed to prevent bad things from happening, 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q20 X Q9, SAMPLE SIZE = 203 as opposed to enabling opportunity. We have an initiative to 25 create the opportunity to view technology more strategically.” FIGURE 31 shows similar results for contribution, where the Firms with a visible OS leader or OSPO are also much more presence of an OSPO almost triples the number of organiza- likely to allocate time for their employees to make open source FIGURE 32 shows that over half (54%) of respon- tions with policies that openly encourage contribution (41% contributions. compared with 14%). There is also a much higher awareness dents in organizations with an OSPO have been allocated more of there being policies in place. time for contribution in the last year compared with less than a quarter (20%) in organizations without OSPOs. Establishing This is unsurprising as organizations with OSPOs or visible open an OSPO or creating a leadership role for open source not only source leaders are more likely to consider open source as stra- signals a commitment to open source but also has a substantial tegic for their firms and an important enabler. According to positive impact on the firm's open source contributions. THE 2022 STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES 37