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.
Korea System Assurance, Inc (KOSYAS), a company that provides security testing and evaluation, network and server security, cloud security, IoT security, control system security and blockchain security, has become the first official third-party certifier for OpenChain in South Korea.
KOSYAS support third-party certification around both OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 (the international standard for open source license compliance) and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974:2023 (the international standard for open source security assurance).
“The availability of local language support and certification for the OpenChain standards is an important step in building maturity in markets,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We are delighted to welcome KOSYAS to our partner program in the context, and we look forward to building increased support for Korean companies with them in the years ahead.”
This time we had a special Webinar from Julian at SCANOSS to show us how they have collected and built solutions around managing open source and export control.
More About Our Webinars:
This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout the global OpenChain eco-system. Participants are discussing approaches, processes and activities from their experience, providing a free service to increase shared knowledge in the supply chain. Our goal, as always, is to increase trust and therefore efficiency. No registration or costs involved. This is user companies producing great informative content for their peers.
As usual, the focus of our main monthly call was a recap of project news and then practical specification development work. Chris Wood, current co-chair of the Specification Work Group (and nominated chair from April 2024 onward) lead a discussion reviewing and editing draft proposals for future versions of our specifications.
We are holding a special workshop in Shinagawa on March 18th for Japanese companies using open source. This workshop will focus on case studies about open source business process management in China. The focus will be on ISO 5230 and ISO 18974 from upstream project to commercial ecosystem.
We will use an operating system ecosystem called openEuler as the basis for our case studies. openEuler is an emerging operating system ecosystem in China with 36.8% of the server operating system market, 17,000+ developers and 500+ projects. It is hosted by the OpenAtom Foundation, and a healthy ecosystem of companies creating products exists around it. OpenChain ISO 5230 and OpenChain ISO 18974 are at the center of how business processes are managed in openEuler.
This week we have a special AI workshop instead of the regular AI call. It will provide an opportunity to deep dive into the topic with experts from Qualcomm and Arm, and a chance to ask questions or share ideas. This event will fold in all the ideas shared thus far and seek a single coherent narrative.
You can follow and contribute to the work of the OpenChain AI Study Group through its dedicated mailing list. This is open to everyone regardless of industry vertical or speciality. You will find it here:
Circle, a leading global financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC, the world’s largest, regulated U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program. ISO/IEC 5230 is the international standard for open source license compliance, and provides a clear, globally recognized way to run a quality program to ensure effective, trustable supply chain management.
Circle enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies, public blockchains and open-source technologies for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle’s payment stablecoins – USDC and EURC – and platforms are helping to build a new financial system that moves at internet speed, scale and cost.
“Circle is at the forefront of bringing open internet software into the world of money,” said Trevor Baker, VP Technical Operations. “A digital dollar like USDC is a key technology that supports businesses, developers, and the future of payments. The OpenChain certification represents Circle’s commitment to maintaining the highest compliance standards for open source technology in the financial arena.”
“The OpenChain certification journey was an incredible return on investment by streamlining our open source processes,” stated Jeff Tang, Circle’s Chief Intellectual Property Counsel. “Circle is excited to help raise the bar in blockchain development.”
“Adopting ISO/IEC 5230 is fast becoming a litmus test for commitment to industry best practices around open source,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “I am delighted to see Circle take leadership in this area, and to provide a strong signal to the FinTech market regarding effective management of open technology. They join companies like KakaoBank in working with our standards, and I look forward to collaborating with the Circle team on next steps for the financial supply chain.”
About Circle Internet Financial, LLC
Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is the issuer of USDC and EURC – highly liquid, interoperable and trusted money protocols on the internet. Circle’s open and programmable platform and APIs make it easy for organizations to run their internet-scale business, whether it is making international payments, building globally-accessible Web3 apps or managing their internal treasury. Learn more at https://circle.com.
During our Education Work Group call this week, we focused on the supplier education leaflet and some recent suggestions from Steve Kilbane to help improve the Revision 2 draft:
They were broken out into issues and closed on the call:[Improvement] Supplier Leaflet: Steve – This seems very long, overall. I think there’s scope for something much shorter and punchier
[Improvement] Supplier Leaflet: Steve – Should there be a comment about the Biden White House Executive Order, the CRA, demands from regulated industries, etc?
[Improvement] Supplier Leaflet: Steve – Not sure whether the reciprocal licenses section should say that it means people can share the modifications, or gain access to the modifications. Or both.
