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.
This is the kick-off call to explain what processes the OpenChain Project uses to develop new specifications. This call then proceeds to review the current ideas being fielded for a contribution process specification and discusses next steps.
OpenTEKr has become an official partner of The Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project. The ‘Enterprise Open Source Governance Specialist’ certification training courses launched by the OpenTEKr will incorporate OpenChain standards into its material to provide additional benefit to all users moving forward.
“OpenTEKr has been looking forward to cooperating with the OpenChain Project,” said Dean, founder of OpenTEKr, “By incorporating OpenChain standards into the curriculum system of our Enterprise Open Source Governance Specialist training courses, on the one hand, it strengthens the professionalism and systematization of our course system, improves the quality of courses, and on the other hand, it can also let more people know and understand OpenChain standards, and promote better and safer use of open source by enterprises.” ”
“We are delighted that OpenTEKr has become an official partner in the OpenChain project.” Said by Shane Coughlan, General Manager of OpenChain Project, “OpenTEKr has been actively involved in building a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem in China, not only providing enterprise software solutions with open source technologies, but also providing OSS education and OSS governance consulting services for enterprise users. I believe that through the cooperation with OpenTEkr, OpenChain standards and specifications will help more China enterprises use open source more effectively and with greater sustainability.”
With OpenChain’s international reach and OpenTEKr’s OSS training practice in China, there is a clear understanding of how to help China enterprises use and govern open source through effective standards. Specifically, the OpenChain standards help enhance the innovation ability and increase the competitive advantage available to companies using open source. Through open source governance education provided by OpenTEKr, enterprises can know how to comply with OSS regulations, avoid risks, establish open source governance procedure, improve Open Source supply chain safety system, build proper open source strategies, and promote open innovation and social collaboration of enterprises.
As an old Chinese adage says, “It is better to teach people to fish than to give people a fish.” In the future, by this official partnership with OpenChian project, OpenTEkr will actively commit itself to building a sustainable open source ecosystem.
On the 29th of August, the OpenChain Automotive Work Group will hold its Q3 Meeting with talks by European and Asian stakeholders. It is recommended for all parties interested in managing open source in automotive and other critical industries. This meeting is a direct follow-up to the half-year assessment we held on the 14th of June.
Our goal with these meetings is to promote knowledge-sharing and networking between people solving key process challenges in some of the most important and regulated market sectors in the world.
Canopus, a specialized firm providing Digital Transformation Services, is the latest organization to announce adoption of the OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 (ISO/IEC DIS 18974).
“As the OpenChain Security Assurance Standard is poised to become a formal ISO standard, we are delighted to see continued traction in adoption from companies electing to be at the forefront of effective open source management,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Canopus is a welcome addition to our growing roster of ISO/IEC DIS 18974 conformant organizations, and will serve as an inspiration to others.”
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The most recent OpenChain Education Work Group call saw work continue on our training material. Check out what Nathan and team discussed in the recording below.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome National Financial Technology Certification Center (Beijing) as our latest official certification partner. Our collaboration will enable more FinTech and Financial Sector organizations in China to adopt the OpenChain standards for open source license compliance and security assurance.
NFTC would like to
organize financial institutions to participate in the collaborative efforts for updating OpenChain standards, helping financial institutions have broader exposure to and integration into the global supply chain. and
enhance the project’s influence within the financial industry, promote the international standardization of OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 in the field of open-source license compliance, and foster its adoption in the industry.
About NFTC
NFTC is a reputable third-party certification agency dedicated to serving the financial industry, and the first national-level certification institution in China. Established in 2011 through the decision of the People’s Bank of China (The central bank of China), and approved by the National Administration for Market Regulation and the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China, NFTC is committed to providing quality certification, testing and evaluation, and assessment services for products, services, systems, infrastructure, and other aspects of the financial industry.
September 21st 2023 at 09:00-12:00 Spanish Time (CEST)
You are invited to join the OpenChain Mini-Summit adjacent to Open Source Summit Europe.
Our focus will be on:
Discussing the new ISO standard for security
Automation for open source compliance and security
This is an hybrid physical and virtual event. It is free of charge for all participants.
Due to in-person space being limited, we invite everyone to register for the virtual event, and to email scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org if they want a seat at the physical event.
We previously planned to hold this Mini-Summit on Monday the 18th of September, but we have moved it to Thursday the 21st of September to avoid overlap with the SPDX Mini-Summit covering SPDX 3.0.
這場工作坊將會介紹 OpenChain 專案，同時也邀請國內外的開源合規專家來分享實務經驗，特別是在日本流行起來的 SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) 及 OSPO (Open Source Program Office) 。OpenChain 的推動過程中如何會遭遇到什麼樣的困難，又有什麼克服的方法 ? 若是你正在使用、正要接觸開源軟體，或者是單純想要了解開源軟體，都歡迎你一起加入討論！
什麼是 OpenChain ?
OpenChain 已在 2020/12/16 正式成為 ISO 認證（ISO/IEC 5230:2020），透過導入 OpenChain ISO 標準，供應鏈裡各參與廠商將能清楚了解在哪個開發環節使用哪些自由開源軟體，並進一步釐清發生授權問題的解決方案。
開源軟體在全世界的應用非常廣泛，隨著開源軟體的商業化，複雜的開源授權規定也讓許多商業使用者不知所措，而層出不窮的侵權糾紛，也讓開源合規的議題逐漸受到企業重視。隸屬於 Linux Foundation Project 的 OpenChain 專案透過簡化及標準化開源合規實務，使企業、組織可更為有效滿足開源合規，從而建立產業供應鏈對開源軟體的信任。包含微軟、Google、高通、西門子、Sony 與 Uber 等都已採用OpenChain 進行開源合規管理並通過 OpenChain 認證。
= Agenda 議程 =
13:30~14:00｜Check-In
14:00~14:10｜Opening 開場
14:10~14:40｜OpenChain – From One Standard To A Family English / Shane Coughlan, General Manager at OpenChain Project, The Linux Foundation
14:40~15:10｜如何建立開源管理機制，做到安全又合規？ How to construct an open source managing system to achieve security & compliance? Mandarin / 中文 / Singing Li, CEO, Open Culture Foundation (李欣穎，開放文化基金會執行長)
15:10~15:40｜Break – Tea Time
15:40~16:10｜ “SBOM” and “OSPO” in JAPAN English / Masato Endo, Group Manager of Driver Monitoring Group, Toyota.
16:10~16:40｜ 深入淺出國際開源資安標準OpenChain Security Assurance Specification Mandarin / 中文 / SZ Lin (林上智), Chief Expert, Bureau Veritas
