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.
“One of the key requirements for any quality open source program is to comply with the requirements of open source licences. Companies, especially new entrants to the field, often have a lot of questions about what processes to follow, the methods of compliance and what challenges may be involved. The OpenChain Project by the Linux Foundation is a standard developed to solve and answer all these questions. To understand more about the OpenChain Project, Ankita K.S. from the EFY Group had a chat with Shane Coughlan, OpenChain general manager at the Linux Foundation.”
Open Source For You is Asia’s leading IT publication focused on open source technologies. Launched in February 2003 (as Linux For You), the magazine aims to help techies avail the benefits of open source software and solutions.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our fifth and final major company educational case study. This contribution comes from Fujitsu and is available in both English and Japanese.
“Five Japanese companies with a vision of building broader, stronger community engagement have contributed a great deal through recent educational case studies,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “This marks another inflection point in our steady march towards ensuring open source compliance in the supply chain is effective, measurable and efficient.”
This case study is made available under the CC-BY-ND 4.0 license.
The OpenChain Project has active bi-weekly calls and a great mailing list that provide the “nuts and bolts” of our community activity. These are joined by various releases of documents and announcements of OpenChain-related events throughout each month. In September the big news was the appointment of our first Community Representative to our Steering Committee and a terrific, exceptional series of educational case studies in English and Japanese from our Japan Work Group.
Community
We are delighted to announce that Indira Bhatt acted as our OpenChain Community Representative during our inaugural Steering Committee meeting. Indira is a Manager in KPMG’s San Francisco Advisory practice with nearly 10 years of experience in the area of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) due diligence. She has extensive experience in setting up FOSS compliance teams including leading, training and mentoring junior and senior analysts. Indira has helped various organizations successfully contribute code to the open source community and establish FOSS review boards by either defining or refining existing governance and usage and approval policies and procedures. https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/09/11/openchain-announces-our-first-community-representative-on-the-steering-committee
Indira will represent the community in our second Steering Committee scheduled for late October before rotating the role with another community member.
Contributions
This month is all about case studies. This time around we focused on how companies instituted educational programs. All of the case studies came from our excellent and highly productive Japan Work Group. Big thanks are due to Fukuchi San from Sony for coordinating all the moving pieces.
The OpenChain Project benefited from outreach talks being reserved in the international schedule by our chair of the Specification Work Team and one of our most active partners in the UK.
First up, Mark Gisi presented the latest news from our project at the recent SPDX General Meeting. One of the most interesting highlights was the reveal of SParts – a supply chain ledger leveraging blockchain technology – can solve accountability and access questions. This merges SPDX and Hyperledger to provide a supply chain solution that can be immediately useful for companies managing open source compliance. https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/09/04/openchain-spdx-general-meeting
A little bit down the road, Andrew Katz from Moorcrofts has booked a space at FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum in London on the 14th and 15th of November. This conference for financial technology professionals is designed to accelerate open source engagement at their firms. This marks our first step into the FinTech community: https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/09/05/openchain-finos-open-source-strategy-forum-in-london
Summary
October will see a strong emphasis on outreach, both at Open Source Summit Europe and via other events and webinars. At the same time the project is benefiting from an expanding commercial ecosystem, purely market driven, that indicates further substantial growth in the adoption of best practices for open source compliance programs is just around the corner.
License and Trademarks
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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our fourth educational case study. This contribution comes from Toyota and is available in both English and Japanese.
“Our goal with these case studies is to help companies of all sizes understand approaches to open source education approaches,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “In a massive company like Toyota there are scale challenges that are as applicable to large multinationals in other sectors as they are to the automotive segment.”
This case study is made available under the CC-BY-ND 4.0 license.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our third educational case study. This contribution comes from Sony and is available in both English and Japanese.
“Our Japan Work Group is going from strength to strength” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Sony has been a pivotal leader in both building out the community and driving productive discussion. This case study, as with our recent releases from Panasonic and Toshiba, provides a useful reference in both English and Japanese.”
This case study is made available under the CC-BY-ND 4.0 license.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our second educational case study. This contribution comes from Toshiba and is available in both English and Japanese.
“The OpenChain Japan Work Group has inspired numerous contributions,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Toshiba has been deeply involved in this process and in providing guidance to help guide their peers. The new educational case study builds on this and provides a useful reference in both English and Japanese.”
This case study is made available under the CC-BY-ND 4.0 license.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the first in a new series of open source educational case studies. Panasonic takes center stage today with an overview of their activities in both English and Japanese.
“The OpenChain Japan Work Group has proven to be a fruitful venue to share knowledge among numerous open source stakeholders,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Chief among this sharing has been a sequence of case studies from participants explaining how they address various compliance challenges. Today we kick off the release of a new set of such studies, this time focused on education around open source.”
This case study is made available under the CC-BY-ND 4.0 license.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that Indira Bhatt will act as the OpenChain Community Representative during our inaugural Steering Committee meeting at 8:30am Pacific on the 13th of September.
Indira is a Manager in KPMG’s San Francisco Advisory practice with nearly 10 years of experience in the area of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) due diligence. She has extensive experience in setting up FOSS compliance teams including leading, training and mentoring junior and senior analysts. Indira has helped various organizations successfully contribute code to the open source community and establish FOSS review boards by either defining or refining existing governance and usage and approval policies and procedures. Prior to this, Indira was a windows mobile developer for various startups in the Bay Area.
“There is nothing more important than community when building international collaboration,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our first Steering Committee meeting marks both a sign of maturity in the project and a new avenue for ensuring community perspectives are considered in each critical decision around our standard. We envision rotating the community seats with each quarterly meeting, and starting today with Indira we are making this process a reality.”
Andrew Katz from Moorcrofts LLP – an OpenChain Partner Company – has been confirmed as a speaker at the Open Source Strategy Forum. The Open Source Strategy Forum, presented by FINOS, is a two-day conference for financial technology professionals looking to accelerate open source engagement at their firms. It will take place on the 14th and 15th November 2018 in London.
The program will feature three tracks, each guiding attendees from fundamental concepts to in-depth, practical knowledge in one of three areas: business value & strategy, policy & process, and tools & technology. Attendees will leave with the information and skills necessary to move their firms toward open source readiness.
“The OpenChain Project has seen tremendous interest from users of open source software and providers of services adjacent to this market-space,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Moorcroft’s outreach in the United Kingdom has been critical in both raising interest and ensuring understanding in the European market. The speech at Open Source Strategy Forum will open a new front in our outreach and positively impact our growth as we head towards 2019.”
I updated the conformance questionnaire git repository with the scripts to test the data and create PDF documents on every update to the repository once the Travis-CI is approved for Github access (see my previous email).
The output can be viewed at https://openchain-project.github.io/conformance-questionnaire/questionnaire.pdf
If there are multiple language translations, the URL for the PDF will have the language designation appended to the end of “questionnaire”. This may be a good way to verify the translations of the JSON input files.
I also added your Context section.
Feel free to share this information with the larger group after you’ve had a chance to review and enable the Travis-CI.
Newsletter – Issue 17 – September 2018
