A *lot* of people in our community are speaking about OpenChain at meetings, events and through social media. To help with their communication the OpenChain Project publishes a regularly updated slide deck with speaker notes. You can find the latest version here.
Numbers, a company based in Taiwan with a mission to create an open, transparent and traceable data system, is the latest organization to announce an OpenChain conformant program. This is a timely engagement, as Numbers focuses on annotating, tracking, and certifying the origins of digital data, starting with user-generated content, a leading source of misinformation.
“With the rise of incredible communication technology we have also seen a rise in misinformation,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Organizations are creating new ways to assess and address these concerns, and it is heartening to see companies like Numbers electing to also embed themselves into broader industry best practices around matters like compliance.”
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On the 13th of June at 15:00 local time, SZ Lin, the OpenChain Project governing board member for MOXA, will deliver a talk at HKOSCon 2020 about how Civil Infrastructure (electrical and power grids, railway, shipping, and transportation systems, and so on) intersects neatly with OpenChain and structured, repeatable compliance processes.
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The OpenChain Project and its collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation was explored during a session at the ISO WG21 2020 Plenary on the 9th of June. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, lead the primary discussion and Seth Newberry, General Manager of Standards at Joint Development Foundation, explained the JDF PAS approach both in terms of OpenChain and more broadly in the years ahead.
Special thanks are due to Trent Allgood and Ron Brill of WG 21 for facilitating this session and helping to build new avenues of collaboration around standardization moving forward.
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Note
The full name of WG 21 is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG21 – IT Asset Management, abbreviated above for brevity.
Fujitsu, an OpenChain Platinum Member, is the first organization to attain two OpenChain 2.0 conformant programs. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu personnel support customers in more than 100 countries.
Fujitsu’s Software Business Unit established the first OpenChain 2.0 conformant program in November 2019. Today the Platform Software Business Unit unveils a sister activity and represents the second conformant program. These developments underline how the OpenChain industry standard provides a solution for multinationals seeking effective, efficient open source compliance management.
Fujitsu’s two conformant programs include over 2,000 staff members and constitute one of the largest open source compliance activities in the world. The adoption and increased use of the OpenChain industry standard is a clear and unambiguous example of Fujitsu’s commitment to continually improving processes that support the development and deployment of open source software.
“OpenChain conformance shows that a program inside a company has adopted the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program using the framework of our industry standard,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Fujitsu is now demonstrating how this process can be rolled out to multiple business units in a large company. Acting as both a pioneer and an inspiration, Fujitsu is helping to lead the OpenChain industry standard further into the heart of global IT activity.”
“Fujitsu has been a long supporter of open source communities and valued open source compliance. Continuous evolution of OpenChain Conformance demonstrates our commitment to open source compliance”, says Hayakawa Eiji, Head of Open Source Software Technology Center, Fujitsu Limited. “Following the conformance of Software Business Unit, we kept on working OpenChain conformance process with Platform Software Business Unit, which has long made collaborations and contributions with open source communities and the Linux Foundation. Led by open source specialists in Open Source Software Technology Center and licensing compliance specialists in Intellectual Property Innovation Department, we reached conformance for the second Business Unit and for more than 2,000 employees”
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.
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Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, today announces conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain. As a founding member of the OpenChain Project, Cisco has been instrumental in defining, developing and deploying both the standard and its extensive corpus of reference material. Their conformance marks another milestone in the broadening adoption of the standard throughout silicon, embedded, mobile, telecommunications, enterprise, software and cloud market segments.
“It is hard to overstate the important of this announcement,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Over the past three years Cisco has helped to transform the way we can do compliance across complex supply chains. Leading by example, Samantha and her team have taken this opportunity to seek solutions that provide a high return on investment through efficient use of people and time. With OpenChain set to become an ISO standard in the near future, we look forward to continued collaboration and in supporting the broader community seeking excellence in open source governance.”
“Cisco is truly honored to be part of such an important team with the OpenChain Project. The industry collaboration, synergies and betterment for our open chain community is revolutionary. We are equally pleased to announce our conformance to this industry standard, as it enables our internal teams to understand ‘why’ behind the compliance rigor. Having established internal policies, processes and tooling automation, which can be measured and benchmarked with OpenChain is one of our major value drivers. We look forward to continuing our partnership with OpenChain Projects and our peer industry partners, as software innovates for years to come.” Samantha Elliott, Open Source Leader.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today. Discover more at newsroom.cisco.com and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco. RSS Feed for Cisco: http://newsroom.cisco.com/rss-feeds
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
The OpenChain Project has launched a series of bi-weekly free webinars that provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events. To supplement these webinars we are preparing and releasing a series of contributor interviews alongside announcements.
Our first ‘OpenChain Webinar Condensed’ features Armijn Hemel explaining his new contribution of build instructions to the OpenChain Reference Library.
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This time we explored Software Heritage, an initiative whose goal is to collect, preserve, and share software code, and continued our discussion of containers from the perspective of scalable compliance.
Our speakers
Roberto Di Cosmo, Director at Software Heritage, explained why this initiative collects and preserves software in source code form with the understanding that software embodies key technical and scientific knowledge that humanity cannot afford to risk losing. His presentation helped provide insight into how such initiatives can link into activities like compliance automation in open source compliance, an area of immediate interest to the OpenChain community.
Scott Peterson, Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat, talked about how we can make compliance scalable in a container world. This talk will build on other recent presentations with a particular focus on efficiency and portability, with a “registry-native” approach to source code availability. Scott explained how this does not require updating container registries to include source code specific features, but instead can exploit features that are already contained in current registries.
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This is OpenChain Webinar #5, released on 2020-06-02.
The OpenChain Project has launched a series of bi-weekly free webinars that provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events. We hold our fifth meeting on Monday the 1st of June at 9am Pacific with two guest speakers.
This time we are exploring Software Heritage, an initiative whose goal is to collect, preserve, and share software code, and continuing our discussion of containers from the perspective of scalable compliance.
Roberto Di Cosmo, Director at Software Heritage, will explain why this initiative collects and preserves software in source code form with the understanding that software embodies key technical and scientific knowledge that humanity cannot afford to risk losing. This presentation will help provide insight into how such initiatives can link into activities like compliance automation in open source compliance, an area of immediate interest to the OpenChain community.
Scott Peterson, Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat, will talk about how we can make compliance scalable in a container world. This talk will build on other recent presentations with a particular focus on efficiency and portability, with a “registry-native” approach to source code availability. Scott will explain how this does not require updating container registries to include source code specific features, but instead can exploit features that are already contained in current registries.
Each talk will run for 10~15 minutes and there will be plenty of time for questions, comments and suggestions. As with all OpenChain Project activities, our goal is to facilitate knowledge-sharing between peers.
Everyone is invited to join this free webinar via zoom. It will also be recorded and made available later on our website.
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Andrew Katz, Managing Partner at Moorcrofts and CEO of Orcro (both OpenChain partners), will lead an OpenUK webinar on the topic of OpenChain in M&A. This issue is increasingly important in our eco-system, reflecting that outside of product procurement, structured open source compliance approaches are in demand and offer significant benefits.
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