Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our latest case study. This time we are exploring how the OpenChain industry standard helps create efficiencies in health tech. You can view the case study online or download it as a PDF. As with all our case studies this release is intended both to highlight the diversity of adopters and to provide practical examples of how companies approach compliance in real world deployment.

View the Case Study

• https://www.openchainproject.org/resources/openchain-case-study-interneuron

Download the Case Study

• https://www.openchainproject.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/11/OpenChain_CaseStudy_Interneuron.pdf

The OpenChain Project provides extensive reference material to help companies of all sizes adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. Our mission is to help improve compliance across the global supply chain. As part of this initiative, and thanks to the hard work of our exceptional volunteer community in Japan, the OpenChain Project has released supplier education leaflets in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English and Japanese. Please get your copies below and use them freely. As with all our reference material these are provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain.

Get these guides and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

On the 29th of October the OpenChain Steering Committee formally convened for a vote on the version of the OpenChain Specification entering the ISO standardization process. It was agreed to proceed with a document functionally identical to the existing OpenChain 2.0 specification, allowing a smooth transition from companies conformant today into conformance with the ISO standard due in 1H 2020.

View the Agenda Slides

Review the Written Minutes

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_steering_committee_meeting_10-29-2019_minutes.pdf

During the OpenChain event at Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon we had an exciting presentation from PwC Germany. In a nutshell, this global auditing firm is a recent OpenChain partner, they have solid open source experience and they offer independent compliance assessments. Also, something we will be formally announcing with a case study shortly and continuing our tradition of leaks from the top, they offer global third-party audited certification. That’s a big deal because it marks our second-such deployment after our good friends at TUV SUD.

Check Out Their Slides

As we head into the weekend it is the perfect time to take a moment and review one of the most important documents in our reference library. There are two primary requests in the OpenChain Project regarding reference material. One is for reference training, something we have addressed through our comprehensive curriculum slides since the project formation. The second is for templates to create open source policies for organizations of different sizes and in different markets. Thanks to the tremendous work of Andrew Katz, his team at Moorcrofts, and the team at Orcro, the OpenChain Project has been able to offer a flexible template to address this need for over a year. Our first release focused on version 1.2 of the OpenChain standard. Our second release, formally coming to market very soon (but already in draft form for many months), is designed to explicitly support version 2.0 of the OpenChain standard. This is a critical release, as OpenChain 2.0 is going into the ISO process, and we expect it to spread globally in this form for many years. Please take a moment, take a look at our final release candidate for this document, and let us know what you think.

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

OpenChain Project is featured on the FOSSIDB blog today. They kindly made space for an informal, detailed dive into the project, what we are doing today, and why

Read the Story

• https://fossid.com/2019/11/21/interview-with-shane-coughlan-gm-of-openchain-linux-foundation/

The OpenChain Project will be represented by Shane Coughlan, General Manager, during an Asian Legal Network event in Shanghai. The Asian Legal Network, sponsored by Open Invention Network, has helped connect people across China, India, Japan and Korea over the last eight years. The OpenChain Project has been present at meetings in recent years to discuss open source compliance, our industry standard, and collaboration across entities of all sizes.

We are delighted to release an overview slide deck for the OpenChain Project in the German language. It will be updated periodically. Please view, download and share freely. CC-0 as usual!

View the Deck

This is your chance to help finalize our ISO submission.

For those new to the specification  – The OpenChain project has developed  a specification that defines a core set of requirements that a trusted open source compliance program is expected to satisfy.   To obtain a better understanding of the goals and the context in which the specification was developed before providing feedback, you can review the following FAQ list.

The big change over the current 2.0 version was reformatting the document layout into one acceptable for ISO submission and adoption.  Other than very minor clarification edits, the content has largely remained unchanged. If a company is conformant with version 2.0 – they would remain conformant with 2.1. 

The current draft is available at:

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchainspec-2.1.draft.pdf

Past readers of the spec might find the marked up version useful:

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/OpenChainSpec-2.1.draft.MarkUp.pdf

Your Feedback is Welcome Via

• the Mailing list: Openchain-specification@lists.linuxfoundation.org;
• OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
• attending the bi-monthly OpenChain calls: https://www.openchainproject.org/get-started/participate; 
• replying to Mark Gisi directly if you wish to remain anonymous (mark.gisi@windriver.com)