Shane Coughlan

Thanks to the hard work of Andrew Katz and his teams at Moorcrofts and Orcro the OpenChain Policy Template for OpenChain Specification 2.0 is nearly ready. This provides extensive building blocks to help organizations of any size in any market create an open source policy.

Final call for comments. We are targeting a release date of 27th of September to coincide with our OpenChain workshop in Taipei.

Changes Since Our Beta

1. General tidy up and improvement in the use of defined terms.
2. Improvement of the copyright notice applicable to the document as a whole (it’s CC0 apart from the Specification itself).
3. Improvement of the Roles tab. The Roles tab has been expanded with a number of new roles, and for each of them there is now a sample set of competencies, either at high level or detailed level.
4. Addition of the Training tab. This now contains a list of possible training modules (and includes all of the chapters in the OpenChain curriculum slide deck), as well as some more company specific ones. For each of these, there is a matrix which relates each role (as defined in the roles tab) to each of the training modules available. A ‘1’ in the appropriate cell in the matrix indicates that this training is necessary for that particular role.

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

The Tooling Work Group will host its second meeting on the 18th of September. This meeting will be hosted by Oliver Fendt of Siemens and continues the exploratory discussion regarding the state of open source tooling for open source compliance today. Everyone is welcome to join!

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Get The Agenda

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_09-09-2019.pdf

Get the Guest Speaker Slides

• Guest Speaker: Mark Gisi on SParts (PDF)
• Guest Speaker: Philippe Ombredanne on ScanCode (PDF)

Review all OpenChain Work Team Calls

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/minutes

Video minutes are now available for the first OpenChain Automotive Work Group Meeting on the 19th of July 2019. This meeting, bringing together collaborators from dozens of companies across three continents, marked the beginning of a global effort to seek common, resource effective solutions for open source license compliance.

The regularly scheduled OpenChain First Second Monday call will take place today at 09:00 Pacific / 18:00 CET. This call was moved forward one week due to a US holiday.

OpenChain Agenda 09-09-2019 from Shane Coughlan

We will be having Mark Gisi introduce the SParts Project as a featured guest, then a presentation by Philippe Ombredanne on ScanCode before moving our focus to the OpenChain ISO Spec.

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Today is a remarkable day. The OpenChain India Work Group has just begun its first meeting thanks to Mishi, Chandana and so many other people from so many companies. As Shane Coughlan mention’s in his opening speech linked below, this is part of an exceptional month for the OpenChain Project, as we start work groups here and in China. The standard for open source compliance is reaching out to an additional 2.8 billion people. Great things lie ahead.

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Video of the Opening Speech

PLEASE NOTE: We had an issue with the Internet connection between Japan and India, resulting in distorted sound on this video, however we believe the video is of value as a marker of the event and thus not revising it from the original. Please find below an excerpt of the speech outlining the key points covered.

“First of all I would like to say thank to the hosts. This is the first time we have managed to have a work group meeting in India, which is vitally important for the future of the project, and indeed this month is probably the most important we have had in community outreach.

We have having our first work group in India, our first work group in China, and continuing our outreach in Taiwan. The project has been so lucky to build out an international community and this year in particular we have been reaching the billions of people who are vital for the future of open source.

Now, when it comes to what you are doing today and what you will do tomorrow, hopefully you will build bridges between companies like Infosys that are OpenChain conformant and companies like WIPRO that are not yet. I want to bring the connection to the international market. One thing that has got me very excited is that in China we will have a lot of the companies deeply connected to India at our first work group. For example, Xiaomi, which has just announced its 100th million smartphone sold in the Indian subcontinent.

Right now in OpenChain we are getting ready to become an ISO standard. We have seen a lot of support from user companies and also from providers. For example, our community of conformance is set to double this year. Our activities in Japan alone involve 68 companies and 150 people. Our new automotive work group has over 100 people involved. 

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The international OpenChain community is here to support you every step of the way.”

The first OpenChain India Work Group meeting took place on September 5th in Bangalore. This event was kindly hosted by SFLC.in and MCA. We welcome contributors from OpenChain Conformant companies such as Cognizant and Infosys along with many good friends from other Indian entities.

The event included case studies as well as open discussion. You can check out the InfoSys case study on OpenChain Conformance below.

OpenChain Conformance : An Infosys Case Study from Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain India Work Group will announce future meetings shortly. Watch this space!

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the OpenChain Specification 2.0 in Korean. This process was lead by Haksung Jang. Many thanks to Jongbaek Park, Seo-young Isabelle Hwang and Jong-ho Hong for their contributions.

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The OpenChain Korea Work Group held its 3rd meeting at the SK Telecom offices in Seoul. As usual we had a mix of people from consumer electronics, automotive and telecommunication companies present.

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Review the Keynote Slides

OpenChain Keynote @ Third Korean Work Group Meeting from Shane Coughlan