OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

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

Get Involved

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	April 2023 - March 2024*
Bob Callaway		[email protected]	Google	April 2023 - March 2024
CRob Robinson	Chair	[email protected]	Intel	April 2023 - March 2024*
Dan Lorenc		[email protected]	Chainguard	April 2023 - March 2024
Dustin Ingram		[email protected]	Google	April 2023 - March 2024
Michael Lieberman		[email protected]	Kusari	July 2023 - March 2024
Zach Steindler		[email protected]	GitHub	April 2023 - March 2024*

NOTE: * marked entries denote OpenSSF Governing Board appointed members, others are community elected.

Charter

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

Technical Initiatives

The following Technical Initiatives have been approved by the TAC:

Working Groups

Name	Repository	Notes	Status
Vulnerability Disclosures	https://github.com/ossf/wg-vulnerability-disclosures	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Security Tooling	https://github.com/ossf/wg-security-tooling	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Security Best Practices	https://github.com/ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Identifying Security Threats	https://github.com/ossf/wg-identifying-security-threats	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Securing Critical Projects	https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Supply Chain Integrity	https://github.com/ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity	Meeting Notes	Incubating
Securing Software Repositories	https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos	Meeting Notes	Incubating
End Users	https://github.com/ossf/wg-endusers	Meeting Notes	Incubating

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.

Projects

Name	Repository/Home Page	Notes	Sponsoring Org	Status
Allstar	https://github.com/ossf/allstar	Meeting Notes	Securing Critical Projects WG	TBD
Best Practices Badge	https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge	Mailing list	Best Practices WG	TBD
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
gittuf	https://github.com/gittuf/gittuf	TBD	Supply Chain Integrity WG	Sandbox
OSV Schema	https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema	Meeting Notes	Vulnerability Disclosures WG	TBD
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
Repository Service for TUF	https://github.com/vmware/repository-service-tuf	Meeting Notes	Securing Software Repositories WG	Sandbox
SBOMit	https://github.com/sbomit	Meeting Notes	Security Tooling WG	Sandbox
Scorecard	https://github.com/ossf/scorecard	Meeting Notes	Best Practices WG	TBD
Security Insights Spec	https://github.com/ossf/security-insights-spec	Meeting Notes	Identifying Security Threats WG	TBD
Security Metrics	https://github.com/ossf/Project-Security-Metrics	Meeting Notes	Identifying Security Threats WG	TBD
Sigstore	https://github.com/sigstore	Meeting Notes	OpenSSF TAC	TBD
SLSA Tooling	https://github.com/ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity/blob/main/slsa-tooling.md	Meeting Notes	Supply Chain Integrity WG	TBD

OpenSSF affiliated projects

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

Antitrust Policy

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