The OpenChain Project held a mini-summit adjacent to Open Source Summit North America. Here is the recording of our event and a copy of the main slides presented.
The Recording
The Slides
OpenChain @ OSS North America Virtual Event – Open Source in ISO: Building the First LF Standard in Fourteen Years and What It Means for You – July 1st
CP1 Associates is the latest OpenChain Conformant organization. This is a UK-based company with an extensive history in the use of open source.
“CP1 provides consultancy and CIO services to organizations across the UK,” says Chris Puttick, Founder of CP1 Associates. “As with most companies, we make extensive use of open source, and adoption of the OpenChain standard for open source compliance helps both to ensure we have the key requirements for such a program in place and harmonization with the larger global software community.”
“Companies like CP1 Associates are an extremely important part of the OpenChain ecosystem,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of the key tenants of our industry standard is that it is equally applicable and useful to small organizations and multinational conglomerates. As we finalize our ISO publication, functionally identical to the current OpenChain standard, we are seeking to underline this fact in the simplest, most practical way: adoption.”
“It’s great news that CP1 has become part of the OpenChain conformant family,” says Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts. “It shows that OpenChain is flexible enough that the specification can be adopted by smaller companies, and puts CP1 in pole position when it comes to pitching for work from the growing roster of international companies who are seeking OpenChain conformance as a key factor in appointing their suppliers.”
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On the 1st of July at 4:05pm Central Time Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager will deliver a talk entitled ‘Open Source in ISO: Building the First LF Standard in Fourteen Years and What It Means for You.’
This talk will explore the process of building and deploying the first Linux Foundation ISO standard in fourteen years, highlighting both what has changed since we deployed Linux Standard Base, and why formal standardization is a topic that will increasingly be on your radar. The discussion will be primarily focused on OpenChain, the industry standard for open source compliance, and how collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation allowed a transformation from de facto into formal standard in a timescale that suits open source development. The lessons learned are applicable to any projects building out specifications or code that seek worldwide, sustainable adoption across multiple industries, and the presentation will include an explanation of how Linux Foundation and Joint Development Foundation are ready to support that process today.
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Tan Zhongyi (Jerry Tan) delivered a talk entitled ‘Building a Secure, Efficient, Compliance OSS Supplychain at Scale,’ covering how to address issues like supporting 10,000+ engineers to fix issues across 100,000 repos. It explored how the OpenChain Project provides a great framework for addressing this challenge head-on and how precisely it has informed OSPO work in Baidu.
The OpenChain Work Group is being launched in the UK with its first meeting taking place virtually on 23 July from 14:00 – 17:00 BST.
Curated by OpenChain partners Orcro Limited with the support of world-leading semiconductor IP company Arm and in collaboration with the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, the purpose of the group is to establish the programme for OpenChain adoption, education and roll-out in the UK, in readiness for OpenChain’s imminent release as an official ISO standard later this year.
The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.
Session Content
- Welcome & Introduction
- OpenChain Project and OpenChain as an ISO standard – Shane Coughlan
- OpenChain, an introduction: reducing risk and friction in the supply chain – Andrew Katz(Orcro)
- The path to open source licence compliance – Sami Atabani (Arm)
- How to sell OpenChain to the board
- The OpenChain UK Work Group: next steps, terms of reference.
The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.
Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner of Moorcrofts, CEO of Orcro Limited and Chair of the OpenChain UK Work Group, said:
“With a stellar roster of international businesses adopting the OpenChain framework for Open Source compliance and seeing the benefits of adopting best-practice – helping business teams work together towards a common goal, making Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) more accessible to developers and reducing overall compliance effort, saving time, legal and engineering resources, it makes sense to unify and freely share this work, and help to embed it into the UK’s software development culture.
By establishing the OpenChain UK Work Group, we believe it will help developers’ and organisations’ journey through open source compliance by providing a practical and accessible platform for anyone in the UK to quickly sync, share information and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.”
The OpenChain UK Work Group is open to all but will be of particular interest to developers, engineers and compliance experts working with open source. It will kick-off with the meeting in July and the proposal is to have subsequent meetings bi-monthly.
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To reserve your place on the virtual meeting, on 23 July from 14:00 – 16:00 BST, please complete the online booking form.
Contact
For more information regarding the OpenChain UK Work Group, contact Andrew Katz.
On June 3rd Swedsoft’s Industrial Open Source Network held a webinar on Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, a project that defines the key requirements of a quality Open Source Compliance Program.
During the webinar Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project, held an introduction on OpenChain followed by Jonas Öberg from Scania who talked about how OpenChain shaped Scania’s Open Source Program. Carl-Eric Mols, Addalot held a presentation about experiences from Sony Mobile.
Learn More About This Event
The second meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group took place on the 26th of June. You can catch up with our discussion and the slides used during the event below. Everything is in English this time.
Our next meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group will be held in early September. Watch this space.
The full recording of the 2nd OpenChain Specification bi-weekly call is now available. This call went over the general parameters of the editing process for the next generation of the OpenChain specification. Our goal is to ensure all comments and suggestions can be captured.
Join the next call on the second Monday of July at 9am Pacific.
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Newsletter – Issue 38 – June 2020
We have two big announcements leading the news this month.
Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, announced conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain on June 2. 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.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/02/cisco-systems-inc-announces-openchain-conformance
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.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/03/fujitsu-attains-second-openchain-conformant-program
OpenChain @ Webinars #5 & 6:
- You can watch the OpenChain Webinar #5 on Software Heritage and Scaling Compliance here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/02/openchain-webinar-5-software-heritage-making-compliance-scalable-in-a-container-world-full-recording - You can watch the OpenChain Webinar #6 on China, Japan and Korea community building here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/22/openchain-webinar-6-openchain-china-japan-korea-a-discussion-on-community-building-full-recording
OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)
- The OpenChain UK Work Group is being launched with its first meeting on July 23. The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/30/openchain-uk-work-group-launches-on-july-23rd
OpenChain @ Events (Selected Highlight)
- 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.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/09/openchain-at-iso-wg21-2020-plenary-9th-june
More News
- Plenty more happened. Check out the full stream here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news
