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 Project is being featured by HH Partners, an official OpenChain Partner, at the Mindtrek Conference in Finland from the 28th to 20th January.
HH Partners are a long-term sponsor of this event and are hosting a stand there to explain their work, their services and – of course – OpenChain.
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Newsletter – Issue 33 – January 2020
A message from Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager:
During the outbreak of COVID-19 we have faced unprecedented challenges in the global supply chain. While these challenges are expected to carry through into Q2 our community is making every effort to ensure our strategy is executed effectively. Great thanks are due to everyone making this happen. Stay safe all.
OpenChain @ In The News
A recent interview about OpenChain from FOSSID has been translated into Japanese. This is a great onboarding point for Japanese-speaking individuals and companies interested in learning more about our work. You can check it out here:
OpenChain @ Interviews
In January we also continued our interview series. We are delighted to announce the release of interviews with Samantha from Cisco, Chloe from Huawai and Indira Bhatt from Facebook.
Read Samantha’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/01/05/the-openchain-interviews-samantha-from-cisco
Read Chloe’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/01/15/the-openchain-interviews-chloe-from-huawei
And you can read Indira’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-9
OpenChain @ Conformance
Inno3 is the Latest OpenChain Conformant Organization. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Partners
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome Lyra Infosystems as an official partner. Find out more about Lyra:
On January 23, 2020 the OpenChain Project also welcomed GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates as an official partner. Find out more about GTC:
OpenChain @ Work Groups
We had a community Pproposal on ‘Collaboration between ACT and OpenChain Reference Tooling WG.’ Fukuchi San from Sony shared a slide deck covering this topic, and if you are interested in open source tooling for open source compliance it is well worth a read:
Events continued globally. The OpenChain Project Japan workgroup held the 12th meeting at NEC on December 19th. Find out more:
The second meeting of the OpenChain India Work Group took place on the 21st of December and was hosted by Lyra Infosystems. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Around the World
OpenChain Around the World – India Snapshot
It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!
OpenChain Around the World – Seminar Snapshot
OpenChain was featured in the seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar was held on the 24th of January. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Events
The OpenChain Project was featured by HH Partners, an official OpenChain Partner, at the Mindtrek Conference in Finland from the 28th to 30th January. Find out more:
OpenChain was at CES 2020 and – beyond hosting a booth with volunteers – we took the opportunity to host a physical meeting of the OpenChain Automotive Work Group. This was a great opportunity to meet some of the people behind the global growth of our industry standard, and to share knowledge about how open source governance works in the automotive space. Find out more:
Fukuchi San from Sony recently shared a slide deck entitled ‘Collaboration between ACT and OpenChain Reference Tooling WG – a Proposal.’ Please find it below for reference. If you are interested in open source tooling for open source compliance and the OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group please join our mailing list. Everyone is welcome:
SAN FRANCISCO, January 23, 2020 – The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome Lyra Infosystems as our latest official partner. Lyra Infosystems offer services around Software Composition Analysis, Open Source Security, OS Compliance, OS Audits, Open Source Vulnerability Assessment, Open Source Support and more. Beyond offering a wide range of services related to the effective, efficient use of open source technology, Lyra Infosystems is also an active participant in the broader OpenChain community, collaborating alongside user companies to build great reference material and to support the principle of making open source compliance obtainable by companies everywhere.
Lyra Infosystems is the first Indian company to achieve Open Chain 1.0 conformant status with extensive experience of helping companies globally adopt and manage Open Source software. Lyra Infosystems is also certified for Open Chain 2.0 conformance.
The OpenChain standard defines inflection points in business workflows where a compliance process, policy or training should exist to minimize the potential for errors and maximize the efficiency of bringing solutions to market. The companies involved in the OpenChain community number in the hundreds. The OpenChain standard is being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from de facto into a formal standard in 2020.
“Lyra Infosytems is an Open Source promoter, user, provider and services organization with more than 250+ customers across geographies, domains, industries and technology verticals,”says Naba Magrabi, Open Source Senior Consultant for Lyra Infosystems. “We are excited and delighted to be part of OpenChain Ecosystem to offer OpenChain conformance services, Open Source Policy, Process, Compliance consultation, Legal Remediation and Audit services to organizations around the globe.”
“The OpenChain community is extremely diverse and our engagement with Lyra Infosystems is an excellent example of this,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “As both an open source user and a vendor providing open source services, Lyra bridges the two primary business use-cases for our technology approach. I am delighted to build on our fantastic collaboration around OpenChain conformance and to formally provide another commercial support option for user companies in India and beyond.”
About Lyra Infosystems
Lyra Infosystems is an Enterprise Technology & IT Consulting Company headquartered in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Singapore .Lyra Infosystems brings a decade of experience in the field of supporting their customers to design ,build and maintain infrastructure based on Open Source Software. In addition , Lyra also focuses in helping businesses in technology areas like Software Composition Analysis, Open Source Security , Open Source Compliance, Open Source Audits , Legal Remediation , DevOps/DevSecOps, Remote Support, Open Source Monitoring , Privilege Identity & Access Management, Collaboration suite and Open Source ERP/CRM .Lyra boasts of more than 284+ customers with a mix of enterprise, startups and small medium businesses
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.
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SAN FRANCISCO, January 23, 2020 – Today, the OpenChain Project welcomes GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates as our latest official partner. GTC, based in the United States, specializes in IP Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Business & Technology Transactions for IP-centric companies and institutions worldwide. Their engagement with the OpenChain Project marks another milestone in building out global support for user companies adopting our industry standard for open source compliance.
The OpenChain standard defines inflection points in business workflows where a compliance process, policy or training should exist to minimize the potential for errors and maximize the efficiency of bringing solutions to market. The companies involved in the OpenChain community number in the hundreds. The OpenChain standard is being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from de facto into a formal standard in 2020.
“The OpenChain standard has the potential to both bring much-needed clarity to open source compliance programs and to reduce duplication of efforts in compliance programs and during M&A and investment transactions” says GTC’s Leon Schwartz. “We look forward to continuing and growing our relationship with OpenChain and helping drive the standard’s adoption worldwide” adds GTC’s Tony Decicco.
“As OpenChain has seen increased adoption globally there has been a steady push for expanding the network of support available for user companies refining their compliance programs,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our relationship with GTC helps bolster our position in both the North American and global market, and it also formalizes our cooperative relationship in a manner aligned with the project’s strategic goals. I am looking forward to close collaboration with the GTC team as we support our user companies in the global rollout of the OpenChain standard in the supply chain.”
About GTC’s Open Source Compliance and Due Diligence Group
GTC’s open source compliance and due diligence group is staffed by attorneys and paralegals almost all of whom are former software developers. This allows GTC to provide clients with practical solutions to their open-source-related questions and concerns. From code reviews performed in the context of transactions (such as mergers & acquisitions, investments and IPOs) to helping clients develop compliance programs and implement robust and nimble open source policies across large and small organizations, GTC prides itself on providing actionable, real-world advice that helps its clients leverage open source software in their products and create and contribute to open source projects, all while understanding and mitigating the risks involved.
For more information about GTC, please see: www.gtclawgroup.com.
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.
Media Contacts
Shane Coughlan
+818040358083
scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org
Some minor sound issues as we got started, but great coverage of our current activities @ events and community, plus the latest about what is coming next.
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Our next call is First Monday, February @ 9am Pacific. All welcome
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OpenChain will feature in the forthcoming seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar will be held on the 24th of January and alongside OpenChain you can get up-to-date on topics such as:
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It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!
Lyra Infosystems has been an active participant in the OpenChain community for several years and – beyond conformance – has actively contributed to the development of our standard for open source compliance and the reference material to support it.
We are delighted to approach the Lunar New Year with another interview from our community series. This time Chloe from Huawei is sharing her story.
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