We recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by the OSPO Alliance to discuss what open source means at PrestaShop - and, more importantly, what we do to keep a long-running project healthy, collaborative, and sustainable. Open source isn’t a side track for us: it’s part of PrestaShop’s DNA, and it influences how we build, ship, and improve the software together with the community.

In the OSPO Stories interview, we focused on two concrete initiatives that help us scale that collaboration: Call for Contributions, to channel effort toward roadmap priorities, and the Wall of Fame, to make contributions visible and meaningful, directly for merchants in the back office.

OSPO Alliance and why it matters

The OSPO Alliance was launched in 2021 by European non profit organizations, including OW2, Eclipse Foundation, OpenForum Europe, and Foundation for Public Code. It is an open experience-sharing platform that helps organizations manage open source professionally—covering usage, contribution, and publication. It provides actionable guidance by making it easier to discover and adopt relevant tools and best practices, regardless of organization size or business model.

Call for Contributions: focus beats fragmentation

A recurring challenge in open source is that energy can spread thin across hundreds of good ideas, while the most valuable work struggles to get enough attention. In the interview, we explained why we launched Call for Contributions: a structured, thematic format built around roadmap-aligned topics, with specifications, acceptance criteria, and dedicated support to make progress easier to coordinate and review. The outcomes speak for themselves. Our first campaign, #HookChallenge, aimed for 10 new hooks in six months: the community delivered 32 pull requests and 19 merged hooks in three months. Since then, the Admin API campaign has confirmed the same pattern: when expectations are clear and support is in place, collaboration becomes faster and easier to sustain.

Wall of Fame: making contributions visible to merchants

We also talked about a different pain point: open source contributions often stay invisible to merchants, which can make community impact feel far away from the product. That’s why we introduced the Wall of Fame, a new back office tab that highlights the people and companies improving PrestaShop, so merchants can see the community behind the platform while running their store.

It’s not designed as “just a leaderboard.” The goal is to put faces and names behind the work, recognize real involvement, and keep motivation high, without reducing everything to a numbers-only ranking. It also underlines an important reality: PrestaShop moves forward through a shared effort, with PrestaShop SA as the main contributor working alongside a broader community.

Thank you, OSPO Alliance

We’re genuinely grateful to the OSPO Alliance for the invitation and the quality of the discussion. It’s valuable to have places where open source practitioners can exchange practical approaches: not only principles, but also the mechanisms that make collaboration work over time.

Conclusion

If the OSPO Stories interview has one core message, it’s that strong open source projects don’t happen by accident. They need structure to focus effort on meaningful outcomes and recognition to make contribution visible, valued, and sustainable. We hope Call for Contributions and the Wall of Fame can be useful examples for other projects facing similar challenges, and we’re glad to continue the conversation within the OSPO Alliance community.