Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Project is proud to announce that Source Code Control (UK) and EACG (Germany) have joined our pilot partner program. These two organizations have a long history of providing open source consultancy or support to a wide range of companies in their respective markets. Their participation in our pilot partner program dramatically increases the footprint of official OpenChain-related service provides in the European sphere. This will provide more avenues for companies of all sizes to engage with OpenChain and it will also provide more feedback regarding how the partner program may evolve over time.

“The OpenChain Project is community-first,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “Any company of any size can engage with the OpenChain Project, access all our material under public domain, and conform to our specification using a free, simple online self-certification service. However, we also get a lot of requests for  consultancy support, for conformance support and for training support. This is where our eco-system of partners come in. These providers deliver services related to OpenChain into their respective markets and help to build out our larger community. Our partner program is in pilot at the moment and is evolving hand-in-hand both with the entities providing OpenChain services and our larger community. Welcoming Source Code Control and EACG marks a milestone in building OpenChain support in the European Union.”

“OpenChain is instrumental to the service we deliver to our customers who are implementing strategies to manage their software supply chain,” says Martin Callinan, Founder of Source Code Control Limited. “It helps validate that the processes we create for customers can be independently validate. Our customers are able to transparently demonstrate OpenChain processes are part of their software quality assurance.”

“As a tool vendor we have our focus on many technical details such as efficiently and correctly scanning, matching or resolving,” saysJan Thielscher, Founder of EACG GmbH. “But the overall quality and consistency of a corporate-wide Open Source Governance can’t be provided through a tool only. It requires processes and cultural change along the complete software value chain. That’s why we very much appreciate and support the OpenChain efforts and extend our solution beyond the technical aspects to support all the carefully selected OpenChain requirements.”

Learn More:

• Visit the OpenChain Partner Page
• Visit Source Code Control
• Visit EACG

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of three automotive case studies. These case studies are an anonymous output of the recent Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona. They provide simple, clear and practical overviews of how large companies find OpenChain useful when addressing open source in their supply chain.

“The OpenChain Project has inspired companies to increasingly align behind proven, shared approaches to managing open source compliance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “There are public aspect to our work, such as our calls and those companies who are publicly listed as conformant, but there are equal or greater private aspects. Dozens of companies are using our materials to review and improve processes related to compliance. These case studies provide a clear example of how OpenChain is being used in the real world.”

Get The Slides:

• Download our automotive case studies in PDF format
• Download our automotive case studies in PowerPoint format
• Download our automotive case studies in OpenDocument format

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce a redesigned website that makes it easier than ever to find information about conformance and reference material for companies of all sizes using open source.

“The OpenChain Project has received a terrific amount of contributions over the last year,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “This material is a direct reflection of how our community has found immediate value in sharing knowledge and of how the key practices of quality open source compliance programs are consistent across companies of all sizes and in all sectors. Our new website takes particular care to provide access to reference materials, training materials and case studies as quickly as possible.”

Learn More:

• Visit the new site
• Check out the reference material
• View case studies

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of a case study from Sony. This contribution is part of the output of our excellent Japan Work Group and forms part of our expanding range of case studies in English and Japanese.

“There is tremendous value in sharing knowledge around open source compliance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “I am both proud and inspired to note that exceptional work being done in Japan to ‘raise all boats’ and to ensure a wide and deep set of examples can be shared with entities of all sizes.”

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

Get the Case Study:

• You can download the Sony case study in English and Japanese here: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Onboarding/blob/master/case%20studies/Case%20Studies%20Japan%20-%20Sony.pdf

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project will host a Compliance Workshop from 8am to 12 noon on the 25th of June at LinuxCon China (Beijing). Everyone is invited to attend free of charge. We have limited space so please confirm your attendance by sending an email to coughlan@linux.com

The Schedule

08:00 – Introduction
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

08:10 – Opening Keynote – Compliance in China – Today and Tomorrow
Maggie Wang 王东芳, Ladas & Parry LLP

08:30 – Compliance 123
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

09:00 – Short Break

09:15 – Welcome to OpenChain
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

09:35 – Workshop 1 – Compliance in Companies

09:35 – The Sony Perspective
Satoru Ueda San, Sony

09:55 – The Linaro Perspective
Victor Duan, Linaro

10:05 – Exploring challenges in China
Panel discussion

10:25 – Short Break

10:40 – OpenChain and Internationalization
Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Sony

11:00 Workshop 2 – Compliance Case Studies

Round-room discussion guided by Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

12:00 – End of Event

The OpenChain Japan Work Group has its fourth meeting at Toyota’s Midland Square offices on the 13th of June. Representatives from more than 20 companies are already confirmed to attend. It will be a great chance to obtain practical case studies, reference material and to network.

The meeting will be held in Japanese. If you want to attend please reach out to <hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>.

Details in Japanese

OpenChain_Japan_WG関係者の皆様

いつもお世話になっております。
トヨタ自動車株式会社
知的財産部 コーポレート知財室
竹見　宏樹です。

6月開催予定のJapan_WG（弊社ホスト）を下記の通りご案内させて頂きます。

つきましては、参加希望の方は「会社名」、「氏名」、「懇親会参加可否」の3点を、
竹見<hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>までご連絡いただきますようお願いします（5/28（月）〆）。
※弊社側の入館手続きに上記情報が必要となります。

【日時】6/13（水）13:30-16:30
【場所】トヨタ自動車名古屋オフィス（ミッドランドスクエア）
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/company/about_toyota/outline/nagoya_office.html>
【備考】
① 当日、私から入館カードをお配りしますので13：30に弊社名古屋オフィス総合受付（ミッドランドスクエア24F）に集合ください。
※ミッドランドスクエア1Fから24Fまでシャトルエレベータがございます。ご利用ください。
② Japan_WG終了後に懇親会を予定しております（会費4～5000円程度を予定）。
③ 同建物内にて弊社ショールームがございますのでご都合よろしければ是非ご観覧頂ければと存じます。
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/showroom_midlandsquare/>

当日アジェンダを募集しておりますので、Japan_WGメーリングリスト若しくは竹見に直接ご連絡ください。

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The OpenChain Project today announces the release of the second case study from the Japan Work Group. This case study features Hitachi and is available in English and Japanese.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

“The development and release of case studies by our Japan Work Group is blazing a trail for our global community,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “Knowledge regarding how companies approach challenges, what their lessons learned are, and how their engagement with OpenChain fits into their compliance strategy is frequently requested by companies of all sizes. We are delighted to provide information targeted towards answering all of these questions.”

Review and download the case study here:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Onboarding/blob/master/case%20studies/Case%20Studies%20Japan%20-%20Hitachi.pdf

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that our Japan Work Group has produced a series of case-studies in English and Japanese from named and anonymous members of the local group. These case studies follow a shared format and outline key challenges and useful approaches.

“It is impossible to overstate the value of the case studies provided by the OpenChain Japan Work Group,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “This material provides the local and international market with some tangible insights into how key stakeholders in the field manage open source compliance.”

You can download the first case study featuring Panasonic here:

• Panasonic Case Study in PDF Format

These case studies will be released twice a week in the lead-up to the Open Source Summit Japan event (June 20-22 in Tokyo). You can be part of this process and part of the larger Japan Work Group activities through participating in our forthcoming ad-hoc meeting on the 8th of June and the next formal meeting at the Toyota Midland Square facility in Nagoya on the 13th of June.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

You can obtain the template used by the Japan Work Group here:

• Case Study Template in PDF Format
• Case Study Template in PPTX Format

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The next Asian Legal Network event will take place on the 28th May in Beijing. OpenChain Project will be featured in a keynote speech. This will lay the foundation for our larger workshop on 25th June. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Learn More:

• Download the full PDF explaining the event and speakers here.