Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history, establishing the leading professional network of Open Source legal experts and aligning stakeholders to launch both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to Open Source.
Shane has extensive knowledge of Open Source governance, internal process development, supply chain management and community building. His experience includes engagement with the enterprise, embedded, mobile and automotive industries.
The OpenChain India Work Group is holding its second meeting on the 21st of December. Our hosts this time around are the team at Lyra Infosystems!
This will be the final meeting of the global OpenChain community for 2019. We look forward to seeing what is discussed, what we can do to support each other in 2020, and what we can do the drive the broader open source community forward in the decade ahead.
The OpenChain Project was well-represented at the Open Compliance Summit held in Tokyo on December 17th and 18th. This global open source compliance event provides a venue for practitioners to share news, knowledge and experience. There was an exceptional audience this year with strong representation from China, Korea, the United States, Europe and beyond.
Beyond pure work there was also plenty of good cheer, laughter and warmth. We are ending an exceptional year for open source governance. There was cause for celebration!
Biju Nair discussed OpenChain during an open source compliance talk at Open Source India 2019 in the middle of October. This provided another interesting datapoint in our global community outreach and complements our recent launch of the OpenChain India Work Group.
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, recently delivered a talk in Paris about the LF Energy Foundation and OpenChain Project. This keynote was part of the inaugural LF Energy Summit and provided a clear example of how compliance and product innovation work together.
Oliver Fendt presented the purpose and activities of the OpenChain Reference Tooling Group today at the Open Compliance Summit in Tokyo. His slides are available below and on Github.
In the last six days we have published interviews from China, Japan and Korea! Talk about hitting the mark with our CJK strategic outreach! Thank you wonderful community members.
Read These Interviews (and all our other interviews)
We are delighted to announce the release of the sixth OpenChain community interview. This time we spoke with Kyoungae Kim, a leader of open source compliance matters in LGE, and an active contributor to the broader Korean open source governance community.
We are delighted to announce the release of the fifth OpenChain community interview. This time we had a chance to sit down with Ayumi from Hitachi, an active contributor to the OpenChain Japan Work Group, and an originator of community-building activities such as our recent open source compliance advent calendar (watch this space!).
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our supplier education leaflet in Vietnamese. This translation has been spearheaded by Le Tien of Toshiba Vietnam.
This is a final Release Candidate and we are seeking peer review. You can assist by visiting us on Github (see below). However, the document is substantially complete and is available under our usual CC-0 license, effectively public domain.
OpenChain Project is delighted to announce a case study in collaboration with PwC Germany. It explains how PwC OpenChain certification works globally. Check it out to understand how our industry standard is supported by a range of providers and venders.
“I am very happy to be working with the OpenChain project, as building trust is in our DNA at PwC, and the OpenChain project provides the right framework to foster trust in Open Source Software within companies and their supply chains.” says Marcel Scholze, Head of Open Source Software services at PwC Germany. “An attestation of companies’ OSS management systems reduces efforts and provides trust and confidence in the software development supply chain on both sides, buyers’ and vendors’. This is the way forward for companies using and developing software with OSS.”
“OpenChain is a project created by user companies for the benefit of user companies,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our collaboration with service providers like PwC Germany is based on feedback from the market. As the OpenChain industry standard becomes widely adopted we see a desire for support infrastructure to assist with conformance, health checks and process optimization. We are delighted to work with PwC on this topic.”
About PwC
The common purpose of PwC is to build trust in society and solve important problems. With a network of firms in 157 countries, more than 276,000 people are committed to providing high-value sector-specific services in the fields of Auditing, Tax- and Business Consulting.
For more details on PwC’s OSS services, please refer to www.pwc.de/en/opensource
The brand name, PwC, refers to the PwC network and/ or to one or several of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Further details under www.pwc.com/structure.
About the OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
