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.
The OpenChain Project took center stage at the FOSS4G-Europe Conference with a keynote by Malcolm Bain of ID Law Partners, an OpenChain Partner Organization.
This event brings the European FOSS4G community together in face to face meetings and discussions to foster deeper interaction and to share knowledge. The 2018 edition of the conference was organized by Portugal OSGeo Chapter on behalf of the Europe OSGeo Chapter.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a legal track at the upcoming COSCUP event in Taipei, Taiwan. This event will start at 9:30 in the COSCUP Conference Room IB503 on the 12th August. As always our goal is to build bridges, share knowledge, and lay the foundation for increased trust in software supply chains.
Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏, Shane Coughlan)
Florence T.M. Ko 葛冬梅
Satoru Ueda
Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏
Shane Coughlan
Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Shinsuke Kato
Kevin Huang 黃鴻文
Hosted by Shane Coughlan
Featuring:
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of four anonymous open source compliance case studies from Japan. These case studies mark the conclusion of our sequence of releases that saw information shared by Toyota, Hitachi, Sony and many more.
“The OpenChain Japan Work Group has provided strong leadership in developing and releasing knowledge around open source compliance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “A great deal of this knowledge, available in both English and Japanese, is directly useful to companies considering the OpenChain standard, building open source program offices and simply working to get compliance right. After this fantastic run of case studies we look forward to next steps. Watch this space for more reference material, reports and contributions.”
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of a second set of tooling slides. These slides were contributed by Software Compliance Academy, one of our strategic partners in Germany, and build on our first release in May. As with all contributions to the OpenChain learning materials (curriculum and onboarding), these slides are published under the CC-0 license, effectively public domain.
“Reference material covering the real-world use of compliance tooling is a common request for companies all over the globe,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Thanks to our partners in Germany we have been able to directly address this area. We look forward to seeing how people adopt these slides and to their feedback regarding future improvements. As always, everyone is welcome to use our materials, and everyone is welcome to be part of making them better.”
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 three consumer device company case studies. These encompass company approaches, priorities and engagement with OpenChain. They are provided in anonymous format from major international stakeholders in both OpenChain and open source more generally.
“The OpenChain Project is first and foremost a way to build trust between companies,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of our most frequently requested items to support this process are case studies. Building on our prior releases of automotive case studies along with a raft of releases from Hitachi, Sony, Toyota, Fujitsu and Hitachi Solutions, these case studies offer direct insight into real-world open source compliance programs.”
These anonymous case studies are provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain.
The OpenChain Project will host an open source compliance workshop in Taipei on the 9th of August in collaboration with Moxa Systems. This free workshop is targeted towards a general audience and is open to everyone.
13:30 ~ 13:40
Opening TBD
13:40 ~ 14:10
Introduction to OpenChain
Mr. Shane Coughlan
14:10 ~ 14:30
OpenChain Experience at Panasonic
Mr. Shinsuke Kato
14:30 ~ 14:50
Q&A
14:50 ~ 15:00
Break
15:00 ~ 15:20
OpenChain Experience at Sony
Mr. Hiroyuki Fukuchi
15:20 ~ 15:40
OSS License Compliance for Software Developers
Mr. Satoru Ueda
15:40 ~ 16:00
Q&A
Room A401
Fl. 4, No. 135, Lane 235, Baoqiao Rd. Xindian Dist., New Taipei City, 23145 Taiwan, R.O.C
台灣新北市新店區寶橋路235巷135號4樓
Tel: +886-2-8919-1230 ext. 1945
Please send an email to coughlan [at] linux.com
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a compliance workshop in partnership with Open Culture Foundation (OCF) in Taipei, Taiwan. This event is in partnership with the Discussion Meeting of FOSS Licensing Issues (DMFLI) and builds on three OpenChain workshops held in Taipei earlier this year. As always our goal is to build bridges, share knowledge, and lay the foundation for increased trust in software supply chains.
| Time | Topic | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Check-In | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Understand and perform the FOSS compliance in a community-driven way / 採社群思維模式做好開源合規 | |
| Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏 | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | From OpenChain to FOSSology – Compliance in 2018 | |
| Shane Coughlan | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Break | |
| 15:15-15:45 | How to deal with “stone-head boss | |
| Satoru Ueda | ||
| 15:45-16:15 | Introduction of OpenChain Japan WG | |
| Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Shinsuke Kato | ||
| 16:15-16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Panel: Different perspectives around compliance | |
| Host: Shane Coughlan Panelist: Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Shinsuke Kato, Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏, Satoru Ueda |
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It has been a busy month for the OpenChain Project. We had a particular focus on outreach in Asia and Germany, building new connections in Tokyo, Beijing and Berlin that will help accelerate adoption. We also released a significant amount of reference material and reports, including our first large-scale tranche of case studies.
We kicked off the outreach with an Asian Legal Network event in Beijing. This intimate event provided an opportunity to present the basics of the OpenChain Project and to highlight our material to assist in the adoption of key requirements of quality open source programs. You can learn more about this event here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/05/17/openchain-asian-legal-network-beijing
The OpenChain Japan Work Group was next with its fourth meeting at Toyota’s Midland Square offices on the 13th of June. Over 40 representatives from 26 companies gather to share their case studies and knowledge around compliance. You can learn more about this event here (and read below to get links to some of our fantastic new case studies):
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/05/reminder-fourth-meeting-of-the-openchain-japan-work-group
and
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/13/openchain-japan-work-group-toyota-in-nagoya
We continued our momentum by delivering a keynote at the inaugural FOSS Backstage conference in Berlin on the 14th. This event brought a diverse group of corporate and community figures together, and provided an excellent opportunity to connect with parties that we already have some dialogue with in this geography:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/14/openchain-keynote-foss-backstage
and
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/14/openchain-workshop-foss-backstage
You can watch the video of our keynote right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojW_qH9sMBc
OpenChain was next featured during a special presentation at a FOSS Compliance Seminar in Berlin hosted by our local partner – Software Compliance Academy – and KDAB:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/14/openchain-foss-compliance-intensive-seminar-berlin
We returned to Asia for the Open Source Summit Japan. Toyota featured OpenChain prominently during their opening keynote of the event. You can see some of the excellent pictures – and get an idea of Toyota’s open source approach – right here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-toyotas-keynote-in-open-source-summit-japan
Meanwhile, we also had an OpenChain specific speech at the conference. You can review the slides right here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-project-open-source-summit-japan-the-slides
OpenChain give a general audience speech and held a dedicated workshop at LinuxCon China on the 25th of June, providing our first large-scale engagement with the local audience. Thanks to this event we have built some useful bridges that will lead to further workshops later in the year:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/07/openchain-workshop-at-linuxcon-china-schedule-and-registration-details
As part of the China outreach we also launched a WeChat group. For those unfamiliar with the Chinese market, WeChat is the most widely used communication client beyond email, and it provides excellent ways to keep in contact with large numbers of people:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/14/openchain-announces-wechat-group-for-china
We really shone on the community contribution and report front this month.
Our international colleagues contributed automotive case studies during the April Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona. These case studies are now available in anonymized format for all to learn from:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/10/openchain-announces-automotive-case-studies
Back in Asia, the OpenChain Japan Work Group continued their excellent work with the release of a series of company-specific case-studies.
Panasonic:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/05/31/openchain-announces-japanese-case-studies
Hitachi:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/05/openchain-announces-hitachi-case-study
Sony:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/07/openchain-announces-sony-case-study
Toyota:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-project-announces-toyota-case-study
Fujitsu:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-project-announces-fujitsu-case-study
Hitachi Solutions:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-project-announces-hitachi-solution-case-study
This material was bolstered by our first location-specific Japanese onboarding material provided a great example of how to bring new stakeholders into the fold. As a reminder, the Japan Work Group conducts its meetings in Japanese, and therefore the onboarding material is also in the local language. Check it out here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-project-announces-japanese-onboarding-material
We also continued our process of translating great international material into local languages with the release of Japanese reference checklists. These are translations of the checklists launched during Q2 for the English speaking market:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-announces-japanese-checklists
We were delighted to welcome two more parties to our pilot partner program. Source Code Control (UK) and EACG (Germany) provide a significant expansion of our European footprint. We look forward to collaborating with both to bring their clients into the OpenChain fold:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/10/openchain-announces-two-new-partners
It should be noted that we have been working with Source Code Control for a while, and their excellent advocacy lead to our conformance relationship with the British National Health Service.
Our website is getting a significant overhaul to better feature both the raft of contributions listed above and other recent material. This process should be complete bu mid-July. You can already see the first fruits online, with enhanced self-certification, conformance and FAQ material:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/10/openchain-announces-redesigned-website
As usual, our Japanese community is fully engaged, and this means that our first full translation of the website will be in Japanese. We have released a preview during June and expect to have the formal website release in July:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/06/21/openchain-announces-japanese-website
The OpenChain Project is having a significant impact on global open source compliance discussions. As we do this we are discovering new ways to support corporate engagement with open source and to foster more effective supply chain management of open source code.
Our outreach has highlight a series of steps that companies are going through on their path to having all the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. Toyota summarized it as follows:
Stage 1: No knowledge of compliance
Stage 2: Knowledge of compliance without knowing what to do
Stage 3: Knowing what to do but not understanding how to do it
Stage 4: Knowing what to do and how to do it
Our experience shows that most companies are at stage 2 and 3. In certain jurisdictions a surprising number of companies are at the intermediate point between Stage 1 and 2. Stage 4 is where companies are positioned for conformance to the OpenChain Specification. Right now we are helping a lot of entities on their journey. This will pay increasing dividends over time and validate the value provided by this project, our approach and our vibrant community.
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The OpenChain Project is delighted to make our slides from Open Source Summit Japan 2018 available to all parties. These slides are licensed under the CC-0 (effectively public domain) license. They contain a series of announcements related to material in Japanese and events in Asia.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that our Japanese website will launch in July. This website and accompanying free, online conformance questionnaire, will allow Japanese companies of all sizes to quickly get compliance reference material, confirm the status of their internal programs, and encourage their suppliers to follow the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program.
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