Shane Coughlan

SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES– (Apr 6th 2017) –The OpenChain Project today welcomes Catharina Maracke and Matija Šuklje as its first two Strategic Advisors.

“Catharina and Matija are long-term contributors to FOSS and related aspects of Open Technology and Law,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Program Manager. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to work closely together as we grow OpenChain from a useful, refined project to widely adopted market reality.”

Catharina is an IP/IT lawyer focussing on compliance and related governance questions. With more than 10 years of experience in public licensing schemes and standardisation, Catharina has worked with different stakeholders from the public and private sector to build networks and healthy ecosystems around open access and open source projects. Catharina has served as International Director for Creative Commons, as a Board Member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and as a Member of the Global Agenda Council on the Intellectual Property System at the World Economic Forum. She is admitted to the bar in Germany.

Matija is an IT lawyer and expert on Open Source licensing and governance. As a long-standing active member of various communities in and around FOSS he holds a deep understanding of both its technical and legal aspects, as well as the social interplay at hand. He has experience from all four sectors – public, business, private, and voluntary – and takes particular pleasure in establishing bridges between the different groups.

About The OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project is a community effort to establish best practices for effective management of open source software compliance. The project aims to help reduce costs, duplication of effort, and ease friction points in the software supply. The OpenChain Project has three Work Teams that collaborate on future refinements of the OpenChain Specification, to develop training materials and create conformance criteria for organizations.

Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project include Adobe, ARM Holdings, Cisco, GitHub, Harman International, HPE, Qualcomm, Siemens and Wind River.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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BOULDER, UNITED STATES– (Mar 30th 2017) –The OpenChain Project will be featured in a talk by Jilayne Lovejoy, Principle Open Source Counsel at ARM and OpenChain Governing Board Member, during a monthly CLE event at the Boulder County Bar Association.

The In-House Counsel and Intellectual Property CLE will take place on the 6th of April between 4 and 5pm at the Zayo Group, 1805 29th St, Boulder. A detailed abstract for Jilayne’s talk has already been published:

Where there is software, there is open source software. In house lawyers are often responsible for managing the risks around their organization’s use of open source software and engagement with open communities. However, effective management of open source software requires a cross-functional approach. This talk will introduce a collaborative effort called OpenChain and describe how this can prevent lawyer and others from “reinventing the wheel” when it comes to open source management. OpenChain was created to address open source software-related friction points in the software supply chain. The vision for the project is to enable a software supply chain where free/open source software (FOSS) is delivered with trusted and consistent compliance information. This is achieved by establishing requirements to achieve effective management of free/open source software (FOSS) for software supply chain participants, such that the requirements and associated collateral are developed collaboratively and openly by representatives from the software supply chain, open source community, and academia.

You can learn more on the Boulder County Bar calendar.

About The OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project is a community effort to establish best practices for effective management of open source software compliance. The project aims to help reduce costs, duplication of effort, and ease friction points in the software supply. The OpenChain Project has three Work Teams that collaborate on future refinements of the OpenChain Specification, to develop training materials and create conformance criteria for organizations.

Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project include Adobe, ARM Holdings, Cisco, GitHub, Harman International, HPE, Qualcomm, Siemens and Wind River.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.

Linux^®is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES– (Mar 20th 2017) –The Linux Foundation®, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today welcomed Shane Coughlan as the OpenChain Program Manager.

Shane 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. He has extensive knowledge of Open Source governance, internal process development, supply chain management and community building.

The OpenChain Project is a community effort to establish best practices for effective management of open source software compliance. The project aims to help reduce costs, duplication of effort, and ease friction points in the software supply. The OpenChain Project has three Work Teams that collaborate on future refinements of the OpenChain Specification, to develop training materials and create conformance criteria for organizations.

Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project include Adobe, ARM Holdings, Cisco, GitHub, Harman International, HPE, Qualcomm, Siemens and Wind River.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.

Linux^®is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.