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Shane Coughlan

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.

OpenChain welcomes Interneuron to our Community of Conformance

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The OpenChain Project proudly announces that Interneuron has an OpenChain Conformant compliance program. Interneuron is a British Community Interest Company (CIC) that exists primarily for the benefit of those in need of health and social care services company, rather than for shareholders. It provides numerous services to different parts of the British National Health Service.

“OpenChain conformance benefits our whole organization – from developers onboarding and releasing their first FOSS products, through to the implementation team building trust and confidence with our customers,” says Matt Conway, CTO of Interneuron. “OpenChain conformance demonstrates to all Interneuron’s commitment to delivering enterprise level open source solutions with quality management and security at the heart of our development processes.”

“Interneuron were invited to attend our OpenChain curriculum based training course “Get it Right with Open Source Software” by NHS Digital’s Code4Health team,” says Martin Callinan, CEO of Source Code Control. “The training helped them understand the value of managing their open source software supply chain. We supported Interneuron through the conformance process and will continue to support them in maintaining conformance. OpenChain is now part of their business as usual software development.”

“The most exciting thing about the OpenChain Standard is how it helps companies of all sizes to contextualize and improve open source compliance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of our key goals is to ensure not only that doing so is fast and efficient, but that it also furthers the business goals of every organization. We are delighted with Interneuron’s engagement with the OpenChain community and we are grateful to our partners at Source Code Control for fostering this valuable relationship.”

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OpenChain welcomes Scania to our Community of Conformance

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The OpenChain Project proudly announces that Scania has an OpenChain Conformant compliance program.Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions, including trucks and buses for heavy transport applications combined with an extensive product-related service offering. Scania offers vehicle financing, insurance and rental services to enable our customers to focus on their core business. Scania is also a leading provider of industrial and marine engines.

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OpenChain Website in Japanese

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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the project website in Japanese. This localization was completed by a Japanese service provider called Doublet in collaboration with our community and the Linux Foundation Japan office.

You can access the Japanese website through visiting our homepage and clicking the Japanese flag on the top right corner.

We look forward to making a Chinese version of the OpenChain website in early 2019.

Request for Comments: The Unified OpenChain FAQ

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Today we officially launched the RFC process for the new, unified OpenChain Frequently Asked Questions. This sub-project, spanning both our curriculum and onboarding teams – with input from specification and conformance – is designed to make it easier to understand each aspect of our project.

We are actively seeking feedback around the clarity of intent, the language used and possible omissions. Our goal is to ensure that visitors to the OpenChain Project can ground themselves in any section of the project as quickly as possible.

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Save the Date: OpenChain @ greymatter Cloud Enablement – 14th Dec

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The OpenChain Project will be featured at the greymatter Cloud Enablement event at the University of Exeter in the UK on the 14th of December. Martin Callinan from Source Code Control will introduce our project and explain how it fits into effective governance approaches.

Agenda

8:30 Registration
9:00 Introductions
9:30 An Introduction to Azure with Tristan Edwards, Grey Matter
11:00 Break
11:30 Cloud security with Gemma Allen, Barracuda
12:15 Code security in Azure with Martin Callinan and Paul McAdam, Source Code Control
13:00 Lunch and finish

Venue

The Deck, Innovation Centre @ University of Exeter, EX4 4RN

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OpenChain Japan Work Group – 7th Meeting on 5th December

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TUV SUD Japan will host the 7th OpenChain Japan Work Group meeting from 13:30 to 16:00 on the 5th of November. As usual we will have a packed agenda with a lot of contributions from different individuals at different companies. One of the key items address in this meeting will be the outcomes of the sub-groups, particularly around areas like the creation of reference business work flows.

Location

TUV SUD Japan
Sumitomo Fudosan, Nishi-shinjuku Bldg. No.4 8F 4-33-4 Nishi-Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023 Japan

Agenda

OpenChain @ OSC Osaka 2019

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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we will have a volunteer presence at the forthcoming OSC Osaka event in January 2019. Dote San from Micware – one of our contributors from West Japan – will be leading outreach. The event and our outreach will be held in the Japanese language.

Date /日程:

Fri. 25th Jan 2019 13:00-18:05 (Speech only)
Sat. 26th Jan 2019 10:00-18:00 (Speech and Exhibition)

2019年1月25日(金) 13:00~18:05(展示は2日目のみ)
1月26日(土) 10:00~18:00(展示:10:30~16:00)

会場:

Osaka Sangyou Souzoukan , 1-4-5 Honmachi chuouku, Osaka city

大阪産業創造館(地下鉄 堺筋本町駅 徒歩5分)→[アクセスマップ] [OpenStreetMap] (OSC受付:1/25(金)ー5F、1/26(土)ー3F)

Fee /無料:

Free

Theme /内容:

  • News about Open Source
  • Exhibition and Speech of Open Source Community/Corporations
  • 展示 – オープンソースコミュニティ、企業・団体による展示
  • セミナー – オープンソースの最新情報を提供

URL: https://www.ospn.jp/osc2019-osaka/

Experience the OpenChain Reference Training Slides Online

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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce a fun and useful new format for the OpenChain Reference Training Slides, a core part of the OpenChain Curriculum material.

Masao Taniguchi from NEC has created a HackMD version of the Reference Slides and it can be accessed, used and shared by anyone from this link:

Another example of our community at work!

Do you want to contribute something to the OpenChain Project? From refining material to translating material to creating entirely new stuff, your starting point is always our mailing list: