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 full video minutes of our most recent OpenChain Korea Work Group meeting are now available. This was a virtual meeting due to the COVID-19 situation. Great thanks to all involved in hosting the event and preparing this video! Special thanks to Haksung Jang @ SK Telecom and Seo Yeon Lee @ LINE for getting these post event reports together.
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こんにちは。あるいは、はじめまして。
OpenChain Japan WGのアドベントカレンダーへようこそ！
私たちOpenChain Japan WGは、OSS(Open Source Software)のコンプライアンスに関する活動をしている日本のコミュニティです。
これから25日間にわたって、コミュニティのみんなでたくさんのことをお伝えしていきたいと思います。このアドベントカレンダーを通して、私たちの活動やOSSコンプライアンスの重要性について知っていただくとともに、コミュニティのメンバーについても知っていただき、参加したいなと思っていただけるようになれば幸いです。
どうぞよろしくお願いします。
アドベントカレンダーのトップバッターを務めさせていただきます渡邊歩です。OSSの活用に関するコンサルテーションを生業としています。
好きなライセンスは、Beerware Licenseです。
OSSコンプライアンスについては8年ほどのキャリアになりますが、OSS管理のベストなやり方を提案し、お客様と一緒にOSS管理のプロセスを作りあげていくお仕事をしています。
OpenChainは、Linux Foundationの公式プロジェクトのひとつで、OSSのライセンスコンプライアンスプログラムを組織が構築するための指針を整備しているプロジェクトです。OpenChainは、ソフトウェアのサプライチェーンの中で活動する人々が各組織内に確立すべきコンプライアンスプログラムの要件を、OpenChain仕様として定義し、各組織がそれらを確立するための支援を行っています。
OpenChain Japan WGは、日本で活動するOpenChainのワーキンググループで、日本企業ならではの課題や解決策について議論や情報交換を行っています。Japan WGの中には更にPlannning, Tooling, Promotion, FAQ, リーフレット, 教育資料, ライセンス情報など、たくさんのサブワークグループがあり、それぞれが活発に活動しています。このアドベントカレンダーでは、それぞれのサブワークグループのリーダーによる活動報告もありますのでお楽しみに！
OpenChainのゼネラルマネージャーのShane Coughlanさんは、我々のまとめ役として、我々の活動をいつも、温かく応援してくれています。
Shaneさんからのコメントを紹介します！
The OpenChain Project defines the industry standard for open source compliance. It identifies the inflection points where a process, or a policy, or a training program should exist. At a high level, it takes the knowledge of thousands of people from hundreds of companies in this space, and it condenses it into clear, unambiguous definitions that any company in any market can adopt.
The OpenChain industry standard does not dictate the content of each process, policy or training program because it needs to be applicable to companies of all sizes in all markets. However, we have a super active and supportive community. There is reference material of all sorts – including entire reference training programs or multi-industry policy options – accessible via our website.
Indeed, the community of the OpenChain Project is our most valuable asset. We have local work groups in China, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We have global mailing lists for the project as a whole, for automated tooling, for automotive. There is an incredible amount of energy and passion around collaboration in this space. We are all learning, and improving, due to this.
The OpenChain Japan Work Group holds a special place in my heart. It was our first local work group and it is our largest, most successful local community activity. People from so many companies and situations join together, share their thoughts, and collaborate to make things better. It captures the heart of open source. I hope that you can experience some of this during our 25 day advent calendar.
(日本語訳)
OpenChainプロジェクトは、オープンソースコンプライアンスを実施するために必要な業界標準を定義しています。この業界標準は、組織にオープンソースコンプライアンスが定着することを、プロセス、ポリシー、トレーニングプログラムが存在することと定義しています。高いレベルで、この分野の数百の企業の数千の人々の知識を、明確で不明瞭さのない定義へと凝縮させています。このため、この定義はあらゆる市場の企業に適用できるものになっています。
OpenChain業界標準は、すべての市場のあらゆる規模の企業に適用できる必要があるため、プロセス、ポリシー、トレーニングプログラムの具体的な内容には触れません。しかしながら、我々には非常に活発で協力的なコミュニティがあり、有益な情報を相互に共有することができます。あらゆる種類の参考資料(網羅的なトレーニングプログラムや複数業種に適用できるポリシーなど)を、我々のWebサイトから入手することができます。
OpenChainプロジェクトのコミュニティは、まさに我々の最も貴重な財産とも言えるものでしょう。中国、インド、日本、韓国、台湾などにローカルワークグループがあります。また、OpenChain全体(グローバル)のメーリングリスト(ML)にも、プロジェクト全体のML、コンプライアンスの自動化ツールのML、自動車分野のMLが存在しています。各地域のワーキンググループや各トピックのメーリングリストを通じて行われるコラボレーションには、信じられないほどのエネルギーと情熱があります。このような「熱い」コラボレーションにより、私たちは皆、これにより新たな気付きを得、自ら改善することができるのです。
OpenChain Japan WGは私にとって特別なものです。我々OpenChainにとって初のローカルワークグループであり、かつ最も大きくかつ成功しているローカルコミュニティでもあります。多様な企業、異なる状況にあるメンバーが一緒に活動し、意見を交換しながらより良いものを目指して協力しています。これはオープンソースの精神そのものであると思います。このアドベントカレンダーの読者の方が25日間を通して我々の活動を体感していただければ嬉しく思います。
明日のテーマは「Planningサブワークグループの紹介」です。
担当は、いつもワーキングの色々なタスクを率先してやって下さる、とっても優しい今田さんです。
では明日の記事をお楽しみに！！
OpenChain プロジェクトおよび OpenChain Japan WG のご紹介
A legal assessor might be a lawyer or a special trained person who cares about licenses which apply to applications that include OSS and/or other third party software.
Explore Their Epic
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the software architect interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
Explore Their Epic
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the software developer interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
Explore Their Epic
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the compliance assistant interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
Explore Their Epic
A ECC expert (export control and customs) might be a lawyer or a special trained person in export control regulations who cares about all export control classifications for applications which are delivered that include OSS and/or other third party software.
Explore Their Epic
The Work Group has created a range of further epics or use cases. These are living documents and your contribution is welcome alongside your use.
Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
Check Out The First Article
If you want to skip ahead, you can see the whole series here:
Newsletter – Issue 35 – March 2020
OpenChain Japan Work Group: Republishing the Advent Calendar
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
Check Out The First Article
If you want to skip ahead, you can see the whole series here:
OpenChain @ Translations
OpenChain @ GitHub
OpenChain @ Conformance
OpenChain @ Partners
OpenChain @ Work Groups
OpenChain @ Events
OpenChain @ In The News
The recent news regarding MOXA’s decision to become an OpenChain Platinum Member has spread through Chinese and Korean language media. Naturally these are very important geographic and linguistic areas for us. We hope these stories will be useful for our community in discussions inside companies, with other companies, and with the broader technology community.
DigiTimes (Traditional Chinese)
Control Engineering China (Simplified Chinese)
ICN Web (Korean)
OpenChain Project Request for Comments
Oliver, chair of our reference tooling work group, has started to draft best practices for license complaint containers. Have some thoughts? Want to help?
Engage via the Reference Tooling Mailing List
GTC Law and FOSSID, two official partners of the OpenChain Project, will host a webinar on March 26th 2020 at 9:30 am EST that covers open source software and code snippets: the benefits, the pratfalls, and how to use FOSSID tools to manage compliance and mitigate risks.
This webinar will dive into OpenChain and will explain the value proposition for businesses leveraging open source software in products or services.
Learn More
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Shane Coughlan, General Manager of the Linux Foundation OpenChain Project, Keith Bergelt, OIN CEO, take a look at open source expectation & Open Source Software (OSS)-related behavior in the supply chain ecosystem for virtually every business and every industry in this week’s Open Source For You magazine.
Read the Article
The founders of AlektoMetis, Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald and Nicole Pappler have been closely connected to the OpenChain project for several years. After successfully creating and launching the OpenChain 3rd party certification during their time at the TÜV SÜD Group, they now continue to provide software centric consulting and assessment services with AlektoMetis.
“We are very happy to be a partner of the OpenChain project.” says Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald, CEO of AlektoMetis. “This will enable us to continue our longstanding successful partnership in our new professional home and to work with our customers and cooperation partners. Open Source related topics are of increasing importance for our customers. Considering that nowadays added value is implemented mainly by software, competence with respect to software becomes increasingly important to companies of all sizes and industries. Including open source licensed components allows companies to concentrate on the creation of value by their own intellectual property while relying on open source for standard tasks. This requires a suitable FOSS governance process in the companies. On the basis of OpenChain we can support our customers exactly here”.
“Building a trusted supply chain depends greatly on having trusted partners,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We need to know that our fellow user companies have adopted or are adopting the key requirements of quality open source compliance programs. We need to know that there is reference material to help them in this process. Lastly, we need to know that there is strong support infrastructure to ensure they can get solid legal, professional and certification advice as needed. Nicole and Andreas have long had a substantial presence and contribution to the OpenChain Project on the latter point, and our new official partnership is another milestone in building out this international standard.”
“The OpenChain community is quite a welcoming and inspiring place and I’m really excited to be part of the OpenChain partner network, seeing it growing and looking for the time to come.” Says Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis representative in the OpenChain project. “Both engineering, quality management and legal experts are working together to create guidance and clear criteria to enable the license compliant usage of and contribution to open source projects for every industry player, no matter what size and background. It will be my very pleasure to contribute to OpenChain to see the three pillars of OpenChain certification – self certification, independent compliance assessment and 3rd party certification – grow into a most useful policy in the supply and release chain.”
About AlektoMetis
AlektoMetis, founded in 2019, offers consulting and assessment services in the areas of functional safety, software quality and processes. The associated AlektoMetis Academy will offer extensive online and offline seminars starting in the second half of 2020. Nicole Pappler represents AlektoMetis in the open source working group of the German IT industry association Bitkom, where she is a member of the board. Furthermore AlektoMetis supports the German working group of the OpenChain project.
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