OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

The OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council is responsible for oversight of the various Technical Initiatives (TI) of the OpenSSF.

Get Involved

Although the TAC is composed of a set of official members listed below, any community member is welcome to participate in the TAC discussions.

Official communications occur on the TAC mailing list. Manage your subscriptions to Open SSF mailing lists.

Informal discussions occur in the TAC channel of the OpenSSF Slack. To join, use the following invite link.

Use GitHub Issues to request and discuss agenda items.

If you need support in any part of the process, please email [email protected].

Meetings

The TAC meetings minutes are online and appear on the OpenSSF Community Calendar.

Meetings are also recorded and posted to the OpenSSF YouTube channel.

TAC Members

Name	Position	Email	Organization	Term
Arnaud J Le Hors	Vice Chair	[email protected]	IBM	January 2024 - December 2025
Bob Callaway		[email protected]	Google	January 2024 - December 2024*
Dan Appelquist		[email protected]	Samsung	January 2024 - December 2024
Michael Lieberman		[email protected]	Kusari	January 2024 - December 2024
Zach Steindler	Chair	[email protected]	GitHub	January 2024 - December 2024
Marcela Melara		[email protected]	Intel	January 2024 - December 2025
Sarah Evans		[email protected]	Dell	January 2024 - December 2024*
Jautau "Jay" White		[email protected]	Microsoft	January 2024 - December 2025

NOTE: * marked entries denote OpenSSF Governing Board appointed members, others are community elected. There is currently 1 vacant Governing Board appointed seat.

Charter

The TAC is chartered as part of the Open Source Security Foundation Charter.

Technical Initiatives

The governance of TIs is documented in the process section. This section provides you with all the information about the different types of initiatives and how they are managed, as well as how to propose a new initiative. It also covers the different levels of maturity a TI can be in, the requirements that must be met to move up to the next level, as well as the benefits that come with each level.

The following Technical Initiatives have been approved by the TAC. You may learn more about their status through their quarterly reports.

Working Groups (WGs)

Name	Repository	Notes	Status
AI/ML Security	https://github.com/ossf/ai-ml-security	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion	https://github.com/ossf/wg-dei	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Global Cyber Policy	https://github.com/ossf/wg-globalcyberpolicy	Meeting Notes	Sandbox
Securing Critical Projects	https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Securing Software Repositories	https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos	Meeting Notes	Graduated
Security Best Practices	https://github.com/ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers	Meeting Notes	Graduated
Security Tooling	https://github.com/ossf/wg-security-tooling	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Supply Chain Integrity	https://github.com/ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Vulnerability Disclosures	https://github.com/ossf/wg-vulnerability-disclosures	Meeting Notes	Graduated

Projects

Name	Repository/Home Page	Notes	Sponsoring Org	Status
Best Practices Badge	https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge	Mailing list	Best Practices WG	TBD
Bomctl	https://github.com/bomctl/bomctl	Meeting Notes	Security Tooling WG	Sandbox
Criticality Score	https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score	Meeting Notes	Securing Critical Projects WG	TBD
Fuzz Introspector	https://github.com/ossf/fuzz-introspector	Meeting Notes	Security Tooling WG	TBD
GUAC	https://guac.sh	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	Incubating
gittuf	https://github.com/gittuf/gittuf	TBD	Supply Chain Integrity WG	Sandbox
OpenSSF Scorecard	https://github.com/ossf/scorecard	Meeting Notes	Best Practices WG	Incubating
OpenSSF Scorecard — Allstar	https://github.com/ossf/allstar	Meeting Notes	Best Practices WG
OpenVEX	https://github.com/openvex	Meeting Notes	Vulnerability Disclosures WG	Sandbox
OSV Schema	https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema	Meeting Notes	Vulnerability Disclosures WG	TBD
Minder	https://github.com/mindersec/minder	New project for inclusion	Security Tooling WG	Sandbox
Model signing	https://github.com/sigstore/model-transparency/blob/main/README.model_signing.md	Meeting Notes	AI/ML Security WG	Sandbox
Package Analysis	https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis	Meeting Notes	Securing Critical Projects WG	TBD
Package Feeds	https://github.com/ossf/package-feeds	Meeting Notes	Securing Critical Projects WG	TBD
Protobom	https://github.com/protobom/protobom	Meeting Notes	Security Tooling WG	Sandbox
Repository Service for TUF	https://github.com/repository-service-tuf/repository-service-tuf	Meeting Notes	Securing Software Repositories WG	Incubating
S2C2F	https://github.com/ossf/s2c2f	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	Incubating
SBOMit	https://github.com/sbomit	Meeting Notes	Security Tooling WG	Sandbox
Security Insights Spec	https://github.com/ossf/security-insights-spec	Meeting Notes	Metrics & Metadata WG	TBD
Security Metrics	https://github.com/ossf/Project-Security-Metrics	Meeting Notes	Metrics & Metadata WG	Archived
Sigstore	https://github.com/sigstore	Meeting Notes	OpenSSF TAC	Graduated
SLSA	https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	TBD
SLSA Tooling	https://github.com/ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity/blob/main/slsa-tooling.md	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	TBD
Zarf	https://github.com/defenseunicorns/zarf	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	Sandbox

OpenSSF affiliated projects

Name	Repository	Notes	Status
Core Toolchain Infrastructure	https://git.coretoolchain.dev/	TBD	TBD
Alpha Omega	https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega	TBD	TBD

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

SIGs can be created and managed without formal approval from the TAC. The following is for information purpose only.

Name	Repository/Home Page	Governing Org	Notes	Status
CVD Guides	https://github.com/ossf/oss-vulnerability-guide	Vulnerability Disclosures WG	TBD	TBD
OpenVEX	https://github.com/ossf/OpenVEX	Vulnerability Disclosures WG	TBD	TBD
Education	https://github.com/ossf/education	Best Practices WG	TBD	TBD
Memory Safety	https://github.com/ossf/Memory-Safety	Best Practices WG	TBD	TBD
C/C++ Compiler Options	https://github.com/ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers/tree/main/docs/Compiler-Hardening-Guides	Best Practices WG	TBD	TBD
Python Hardening	https://github.com/ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers/tree/main/docs/Secure-Coding-Guide-for-Python	Best Practices WG	TBD	TBD
Security Baseline	https://github.com/ossf/security-baseline	Best Practices WG	TBD	TBD
SBOM Everywhere	https://github.com/ossf/sbom-everywhere	Security Tooling WG	TBD	TBD
OSS Fuzzing	https://github.com/ossf/wg-security-tooling?tab=readme-ov-file#oss-fuzzing-sig	Security Tooling WG	TBD	TBD

Overview Diagrams

Diagrams with an overview of the OpenSSF, including its projects and SIGs, are available in the presentation OpenSSF Introduction (including Diagrammers’ Society diagrams) as created and maintained by the OpenSSF Diagrammer's Society.

Antitrust Policy

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