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 is proud to announce that we are holding a community meetup on the 1st of June in Beijing. As you can see from the image above, a ton of organizations and companies are supporting this initiative. Our schedule includes international perspectives with Mary Wang, Director of Open Source Ecosystem at Volvo Cars in Sweden giving a key talk, as well as some great talks from local speakers.
Eagle-eyed members of the community will have noticed new mascots appearing gradually over the last couple of weeks around the OpenChain Project material and events. These new mascots for 2023 have been created by Soim Kim of the OpenChain Korea Work Group, and represent a new way to add a playful feel to community outreach. The basic concept is pretty simple: around open source people often use penguins (like we have done for the past five years), but what about all the other wonderful creatures from cold climates? Snow foxes, polar bears and so many more? Well… OpenChain is here to the rescue. We are featuring them all! Over time it is hoped that we can build our new friends in various different poses to help make sure they offer great support to all that we do.
In the near term you will find them in plenty of variants already, and you can expect to see stickers, mugs, t-shirts and many more things appearing at events and at our work group meetings in the coming months. You can download our new images and play with them via the OpenChain GitHub repo for image assets:
Naturally you can still use our traditional penguins too. These dear friends are part of our history and have provided a splash of color to all sorts of slides, handouts and other material.
You will always find them in the image assets repo as well:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Image-Assets/tree/master/Official/Penguin-Images
The OpenChain Project community is an amazing place. We do a lot of corporate outreach, planning and execution. But we also do a lot of community meetings, events and workshops. Balancing our day-to-day work requirements and the additional opportunities for personal and professional networking is part of our DNA.
As per the previous meeting, work was focused on the supplier education leaflet. We are getting close to an updated release version and your review would be super useful. This document will be formatted for PDF distribution (as well as MarkDown final source), and is targeted towards being a “one attachment” way to get your suppliers up-to-speed on the basics needed for open source, compliance and security assurance.
The OpenChain Legal Work Group is exploring model provisions for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 or ISO/IEC DIS 18974 in procurement contracts and similar material. We decided to proceed via mirroring the format of the pre-existing public domain Risk Grid:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/General-Compliance-Support-Material/Risk-Grid
Currently scheduled for June 29th at 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST / 00:00 CST / 01:00 KST + JST
Join our mailing list to track our work and contribute to the development of the model provisions:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/legal-wg
The goal is to ensure people can understand options. We will not be prescriptive and these model provisions will remain part of the OpenChain reference material. They will not be included in the standards themselves.
The OpenChain Project, in collaboration with CAICT, SecTrend and Huawei, will host a governance conference in Shenzhen on the 3rd of June. We have a stellar schedule that will cover all aspects of open source management and processes. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will be there to provide a global perspective, and our local speakers will provide deep insight into matters of key strategic concern to the Chinese market.
Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will speak at the forthcoming OSCAR event hosted by CAICT and CCSA. He will explain the latest developments around open source license compliance and security assurance process standards, along with global activities of note for the audience.
OpenChain will be featured as part of the forthcoming GOTC event in Shanghai. This event will include an OSPOCon track, and Shane Coughlan – OpenChain General Manager – will update the audience on the latest developments around open source process standards for license compliance and security assurance.
The OSPO Local Meeting for Japan will hold its 8th meeting today at 15:00 JST. Learn more below.
OSPO ローカル ミートアップは、日本のオープン ソース プログラム オフィスの状況について話し合い、組織内でのオープン ソース戦略の採用を促進します。 TODO GroupとOpenChain Japan WPによるサポート。
OSPO Local Meetup to discuss the status of Open Source Program offices in Japan, and foster the adoption of an open source strategy within organizations. Supported by TODO Group and OpenChain Japan Working Group.
日時 (Time and Date)：5/26 (Fri) 15:00-16:00
参加方法 (Event Type)：Online (オンライン形式)
参加申込不要、参加条件：独禁法、LF行動規範、および、チャタムハウスルールに従うこと
( No application for participation required, Participation required to follow an Antitrust Law, LF Code of Conduct, and Chatham House rules. )
•Zoom Meeting ID: 84799126957 / パスワード: 3L3NNss1
( https://zoom.us/j/84799126957?pwd=UzRJWkpxa1FlbkRNVHhVbFJVNnMwUT09 )
議題 (Agenda)：
OSPO立上げ＆ FAQ作成 / リーダー 大和田さん
の3回目
（OSPO Launch & FAQ / Leader Owada
詳細は以下参照（See this URL for details）
https://community.linuxfoundation.org/ospo-local-meetup-japan-japanese-speaking/
Jimmy Ahlberg (OpenChain Chairperson) and Eleftheria Stefanaki have published an article entitled ‘Efficient IP management in a market increasingly using open source’ on IAM.
Imagine finding out that 90% of the software in your products is not yours but only licensed in as third-party IP. As soon as you start reading the agreements, you realise some of them contain terms you are not familiar with or have never even heard of before, such as “source code”, “binary”, “object code”, and “system libraries”. Moreover, you cannot find basic contractual provisions such as “governing law” or “jurisdiction” in the agreements. These agreements (and there are hundreds of them) are all different, non-negotiable, ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ standard template licences.
[…]
Against this background, this article describes the significance of open source management in the context of IP management. We would like to introduce you to the OpenChain Specification 2.1 (ISO/IEC 5230:2020) on open source licence compliance, and the benefits of implementing such a programme within the framework of your existing IP management.
Registration required.
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The Open Compliance Summit (OCS) 2023 has been announced. It will once again be co-located with OSS Japan as a two day event. It takes place on the 7th and 8th December 2023.
OCS is an event for Linux Foundation members and select invitees to discuss process management and automation related to open source license compliance, security assurance and adjacent subjects. This is the world’s foremost venue to discuss and network around these topics. Our goal is to ensure the global supply chain works effectively and efficiently.
The Call for Papers is open and will continue until October 1st 2023.
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