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.
Some minor sound issues as we got started, but great coverage of our current activities @ events and community, plus the latest about what is coming next.
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OpenChain will feature in the forthcoming seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar will be held on the 24th of January and alongside OpenChain you can get up-to-date on topics such as:
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It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!
Lyra Infosystems has been an active participant in the OpenChain community for several years and – beyond conformance – has actively contributed to the development of our standard for open source compliance and the reference material to support it.
We are delighted to approach the Lunar New Year with another interview from our community series. This time Chloe from Huawei is sharing her story.
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We have great work groups in China, Japan, Korea, India and Taiwan. It is time to get started in Germany!
Our first meeting will take place on the 6th of February at the Siemens offices in Nuremberg. Our goal is to bring together 10~20 people to discuss what is needed in the German market for OpenChain as a standard and compliance as a practice.
We have some exciting topics to talk about:
The goal is to provide a platform for everyone in Germany to quickly sync, share notes and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.
Let’s make it happen! Please confirm you plan to attend by the 16th of January so Oliver @ Siemens can order catering and so on. Confirm by mailing scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org.
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The OpenChain Automotive Work Group is holding a workshop at CES 2020. It takes place between 18:30 and 21:00 on the 9th of January at the ‘St. Croix B’ room in The Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
This will be a great opportunity to meet some of the people behind the global growth of our industry standard, and to share knowledge about how open source governance works in the automotive space. The attendees and speakers will include some of the people central to this field. Whether you are seasoned or you are new, this is the right room to enter.
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Just show up! All welcome, as always!
We are delighted to start the new year with another interview from our community series. This time Samantha from Cisco is sharing her story.
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OpenChain Project Japan workgroup held the 12th meeting at NEC on December 19th.
This meeting was special for us because it marked the two year anniversary of our activity. We were also delighted to welcome so many overseas visitors such: Kate Stewart, Thomas Steenbergen, William Bartholomew, Oliver Fendt, Michael C. Jaeger, Arun Azhakesan, SZ Lin, Haksung Jang, Wonjae Park, Han Jiho and other Korean friends.
Haksung Jang, Han Jiho and Thomas Steenbergen kindly shared their excellent works and knowledge with us. Of course our project general manager Shane Coughlan gave the opening speech. We shared case studies from many companies.
Many thanks to all the participants, and special thanks to Shima-san, Yoneshima-san and Yamamoto-san from NEC for their great efforts for hosting the meeting.
Here are some interesting statistics regarding the Japanese attendees:
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The second meeting of the OpenChain India Work Group took place on the 21st of December and was hosted by Lyra Infosystems. A full report of the meeting is available as a PDF. If you would like to attend future meetings please join the OpenChain India mailing list. Your participation will be valued!
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