The OpenChain Project regular First Monday call video minutes are now available:
Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Agenda
- 10 minute guest talk on ClearlyDefined
- 10 minute review of Curriculum Material
- 40 minute deep dive into the draft ISO Spec
The outcomes of the 10th meeting of the OpenChain Japan Work Group on the 16th of July are now available. We had 84 participants from 44 companies present, including our special guest SZ Lin from MOXA, Taiwan.
先月、7/16のOpenChainJapan WG 会合は、特別に拡大版で実施し、
参加企業：４４社／参加人数：８４名／懇親会：約５０名
と多くの方に議論に参加いただき、交流を広げることができたと思います。
会議室の移動などにご協力いただきまして、ありがとうございました。
遅くなりましたが、第10回会合の議事録、資料を下記へ格納いたしましたのでご連絡します。
The OpenChain Japan Education Sub-Group has just released training material for compliance programs and four company case studies regarding their approach to education.
Get these guides and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.
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Newsletter – Issue 27 – July 2019
We are delighted to announce that Panasonic is our latest Platinum Member company. We have been collaborating closely with Kato San and his team for a considerable period, and their work has been central to the extraordinary growth and activity of the OpenChain Japan Work Group. It is fitting that we are making this announcement at the tenth meeting of the Japan Work Group, just prior to Open Source Summit Japan, when community participants will have an opportunity to meet Kato San and his team at panels and workshops related to OpenChain.
“Panasonic operates across multiple key markets for technology. Consumer electronics, automotive and aviation all play a part in their deployment of software around the world,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “This is a natural next step in our partnership and it provides a significant boost to our goal of addressing critical markets like automotive and in providing open source compliance excellence to suppliers of all sizes.”
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OpenChain @ Conformance
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that HELLA Aglaia, a German company focused on the automotive space, is the latest OpenChain Specification 2.0 conformant company.
“HELLA Aglaia entered the OpenChain community via the OpenChain 1.2 conformance process earlier this year,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We were delighted with a productive, efficient collaboration, and equally heartened with their decision to take a leadership position in the adoption of OpenChain 2.0, the version of our standard positioned for fast-track submission to ISO. OpenChain is gathering particular momentum in the automotive industry due to the initiative and pursuit of excellence of such companies. We are looking forward to building new bridges to an ever wider group of stakeholders.”
OpenChain @ Specification 1.2
Thanks to the hard work of our friendly contributors, Denis and Yegor, the OpenChain Specification 1.2 has an official translation in Russian. This translation joins our growing corpus of localisation documents for our international community.
OpenChain @ Events
OpenChain Steering Committee Meeting @ OSS Japan on 19th July
The OpenChain Project hosted a Steering Committee meeting on the 19th of July as part of a wider OpenChain Workshop. This Steering Committee meeting provided an opportunity to review and raise comments around the ISO draft of our Specification. No votes were taken at this meeting, with the focus primarily on ensuring people had a chance to review the document, and with the discussion moving onto our mailing lists subsequently for more formal review.
OpenChain Japan Education Sub-Group Meeting @ Hitachi 9th July
The Education sup group is working on additional material for our reference library. The following material is being edited:
OpenChain Automotive Work Group – A Global Solution for a Global Market
The OpenChain Project launched a global Automotive Work Group. This work group already has over 80 participants from major automotive companies and supplier companies from silicon to completed components. The Automotive Work Group held its first meeting during Open Source Summit Japan on 19th of July. Learn More:
- https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/07/15/openchain-automotive-work-group-a-global-solution-for-a-global-market
- https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/07/19/openchain-automotive-work-group-meeting-oss-japan-on-19th-july
OpenChain Japan Licensing Sub-Group Meeting on 24th July
On July 24th the OpenChain Japan Licensing Sub Group held a meeting at the Olympus office in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The focus was on reviewing an English version of the OpenChain supplier education leaflet for review and discussion. Learn more:
OpenChain Launches Tooling Work Group
On July 25 the OpenChain Project announced the launch of our global Tooling Work Group. This work group, chaired by Oliver Fendt of Siemens, will see contributors from Siemens, Bosch, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi and many other companies accelerate collaboration around open source tooling for open source compliance. Learn more:
OpenChain Panel @ Open Source Summit Japan on 17th July
Fujitsu, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and Toyota took the stage on the 17th of July to share the latest activities of OpenChain Japan Work Group. This event was moderated by Masato Endo from Toyota and featured Wang Mingyu (Fujitsu), Nobuo Imada (Hitachi), Shinsuke Kato (Panasonic), Yoshitake Kobayashi (Toshiba) and Satoru Ueda (Sony). Learn more:
Sony Talk @ Open Source Summit Japan – 18th July
Satoru Ueda from Sony hosted a talk entitled ‘OSS Collaborative Leadership and the Software Supply Chain Problem’ that unpacked practical aspects of supply chain challenges and related solutions. Learn more:
Toshiba @ Open Source Summit Japan on 18th July
Kouki Hama from Toshiba presented the following session: ‘Using SW360 for OSS Compliance Management Process.’ SW360 is OSS tool for centrally managing software component information, license information, vulnerability information, and etc. This tool also allows you to associate project information with many software components. Toshiba is centralizing information management of open source software by SW360.
Fujitsu China @ Open Source Summit Japan on 18th July
Wang Mingyu from Fujitsu is not exactly part of the Japan workgroup, but she is a member of Asaba-san’s team. She hosted a talk entitled
‘Dandified Way to Package Management in Yocto Project.’ Her talk referenced the OpenChain Specification as a solution for real world process management.
OpenChain + Program Offices @ Bird+Bird, Germany – 25th of June
News came in that Bird&Bird hosted an Open Source Program seminar on the 25th June 2019 to explore the cutting edge in Open Source Program Offices in Europe and beyond. The opening keynote was delivered by Amani Hajj Ali and Fabienne Haag from SAP, explaining how their company’s outbound process remains transparent and agile through the use of a standard like OpenChain. There was a group discussion focused on how OpenChain supports leadership position in open source management. Learn More:
OpenChain @ Materials and Case Studies
The OpenChain Japan Education Sub-Group has released training material for compliance programs and four company case studies regarding their approach to education. Learn more:
Today the OpenChain Project announces the launch of our global Tooling Work Group. This work group, chaired by Oliver Fendt of Siemens, will see contributors from Siemens, Bosch, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi and many other companies accelerate collaboration around open source tooling for open source compliance.
This work group is focused on reducing resource costs and improving the quality of results around open source compliance activities. We use open source principles to accomplish this, creating a meritocracy producing real world solutions for real world challenges, and sharing these results with all interested parties.
- We are making turn-key Open Source tooling for Open Source Compliance
- We are considering what open data database(s) can support this
- We plan to work with existing projects to make this happen (FOSSology, Software Heritage, SPDX, sw360, ClearlyDefined)
We owe a great debt to the originators of the “Sharing Creates Value” Project and to the OpenChain Japan Tooling Sub-Work Group. By aligning these two activities, and working to create a single solution, we will support increased automation across the supply chain as a whole.
Why Are We Launching This Work Group?
OpenChain is at the top of the compliance stack defining inflection points where processes should exist. We leave it up to individual companies to select the appropriate process content for their size, market and customer base. However, we provide reference material in the form of policies, process examples and checklists. Frequent requests come in regarding automation and – given that many of our member companies and our community are using open source tooling for open source compliance – it makes sense to unify and freely share this work onward.
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The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its first face-to-face (with dial in) meeting during the larger OpenChain Workshop. This meeting had 25 physical attendees and another 6 dialing in. The minutes will be published shortly.
Join the Work Group
The OpenChain Project hosted a Steering Committee meeting on the 19th of July as part of a wider OpenChain Workshop. This Steering Committee meeting provided an opportunity to review and raise comments around the ISO draft of our Specification. No votes were taken at this meeting, with the focus primarily on ensuring people had a chance to review the document, and with the discussion moving onto our mailing lists subsequently for more formal review.
Satoru Ueda from Sony hosted a talk entitled ‘OSS Collaborative Leadership and the Software Supply Chain Problem’ that unpacked practical aspects of supply chain challenges and related solutions.
“Contemporary software is, in many cases, developed by the collaborative work of many developers in a large and complex supply chain network. Some of developers in the supply chain are well-acquainted with using Open Source Software, and handle it appropriately. However we must be reminded that there are still many parties in the product ecosystem that lack familiarity or experience with OSS. Product vendors cannot wait for all members to become mature in their OSS usage. Sometimes, even the OSS leaderships in different companies are required to help each other, to achieve satisfactory results.
In the OpenChain Project Japan Work Group, OSS leaders from different companies are working together to help each other resolve supply-chain issues. In this session we would like to discuss the way to help those early stage level companies. Some actual efforts and outcomes will be introduced.”
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Fujitsu, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and Toyota took the stage on the 17th of July to share the latest activities of OpenChain Japan Work Group. This event was moderated by Masato Endo from Toyota and featured Wang Mingyu (Fujitsu), Nobuo Imada (Hitachi), Shinsuke Kato (Panasonic), Yoshitake Kobayashi (Toshiba) and Satoru Ueda (Sony).
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The OpenChain Project has just launched a global Automotive Work Group. This work group already has over 80 participants from major automotive companies and supplier companies from silicon to completed components. This Work Group is spearheaded by Masato Endo from Toyota as part of our industry outreach to ensure companies around the world can benefit from our standard for open source compliance in the supply chain.
“The adoption of open source software in the automotive industry is expanding rapidly and there is a rising awareness of its place as an essential component of future products,” says Masato Endo, Project Manager at Toyota Motor Corporation. “At the same time as embracing the potential involved it is important to the automotive industry to ensure best practices are followed. We’d like to share best practices and discuss the standard of OSS Supply Chain Management (OSS SCM) in automotive industry. This WG is also an open source project and everyone who is interested in these topics can join without restriction. I’m looking forward to future discussions with you!”
“The OpenChain Automotive Work Group provides a global, open and flat forum for companies of all sizes to engage with and improve efficiency around open source compliance in a key industrial segment,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “There is no sector more important to us as we prepare to become an ISO standard, not least because of the tremendous support and contributor we are receiving from companies involved from every geography.”
This work group is welcoming new participants. If your company is involved in the automotive industry please do not hesitate to engage with our mailing list or face-to-face meetings.
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Join Our First Face-to-Face Meeting @ Open Source Summit Japan
We will hold our first Face to Face meeting on the 19th of July between 12:00 and 13:45. This will be a “brown bag” meeting, with an informal lunch provided, and with an informal conversational atmosphere. This meeting will have dial-in capability. See below for details. RSVP appreciated but not required! You can contact coughlan@linux.com for RSVP or with questions.
Hall 2A
TKP Toranmon Ekimae Conference Center
TKP虎ノ門駅前カンファレンスセンター
Address:(2F) 1-4-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tōkyō-to
東京都港区虎ノ門1-4-3 2F
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Join the call: https://uberconference.com/openchainproject
Optional US dial in number: 855-889-3011
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If you need to use an international phone number please check:
https://www.uberconference.com/international
1. Dial the country number based on your location.
2. Enter 855 889 3011 and then # to enter the room.
