I added some comments about the impetus for launching TODO, and why we approached it by not being prescriptive out of the gate. The list of possible projects is long, and our first order of business is prioritizing them.
We'll be contacting the interested companies (over 200 now) about an in-person workshop and the other discussion platforms we're using.
Thanks for the comments everyone, hopefully I can answer some of the questions about what TODO is about and where it's headed, don't miss jamesgpearce's comments too.
One of the first principles when forming the group was that we wanted to collaborate with, and learn from, each other before developing prescriptive guidelines. The ten member companies that launched with TODO are just a fraction of companies that have open source programs; there are companies in wide ranging industries like finance, automotive, and retail that have already expressed interest in participating too. So instead of launching today with our version of the answers, we wanted to invite dialogue and particiaption.
Many of the participating and interested companies have already written extensive documentation and internal tools to solve some of the unique challenges of their open source programs. We want to take that experience, find the common patterns, and open it up to the broader community.
We believe that the best practices, tooling, and development principles that will come from the group will improve the overall quality of the projects; that these projects can be adopted by other companies with certain expectations.
If these are the same problems you face in your company's open source program, we'd love to hear from you and have you participate because you can help define the problems we tackle.