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 OpenChain Webinar featured a FOSDEM recap by Philippe Ombredanne of NexB for everyone who did not attend the event in Belgium at the start of 2023. In 2023 FOSDEM had over 8,000 participants and 771 presentations, making it one of the largest open source events in the world by a large margin. This webinar will be of particular interest to people exploring open source tooling for open source compliance or security.
The OpenChain Project was present at the LF APAC Leadership Summit in Hong Kong on the 2nd and 3rd of March 2023. This event contained a detailed series of presentations from key leaders in the Linux Foundation on day 1, and hosted a great OSPO Workshop lead by Ibrahim (LF AI & Data) on day 2.
Key participants at the OSPO Workshop
Of course there was also plenty of time for networking, and LF APAC organized a wonderful cruise in Hong Kong harbor for attendees.
The OpenChain Newsletter provides a monthly summary of our work. It contains an overview of what we are doing to build trust around license compliance and security in the open source supply chain. This is a community newsletter, so we accept suggestions and ideas, and you can contact us by mail at any time.
You can now get third-party certified with ISO/IEC 5230 or the OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 anywhere in the world… and you have plenty of choice about who to work with. Of course, you have options when adopting our standards. The most common thing is actually for companies to start with self-certification, so if you are new to this… Learn more here)
Our reference library of over 1,000 documents to help you learn about our standards, train people or suppliers around open source, get policy templates, self-certification checklists and more has been totally overhauled. It is now easier to find material, easier to share material and easy to translate material.
Yes Security and Panx Project announced adoption of our ISO/IEC standard for open source license compliance via the OpenChain website. Both companies self-certified. Yes Security is the first company from Brazil to announce conformance via our website. Well done!
This month we had two webinars. One covered new security tools and one unpacked fascinating data points around GPLv2 licensing. Did you know there have been 40 versions of the GPLv2 published on its official websites and there have been 12 different versions found in the Linux Kernel? Definitely a webinar to watch if you are interested in the licensing side of things.
Last month we mentioned that Continental Corporation made LFC193 a required course for their software developers from late Q3 2022. Since then we had two other soft announcements from community members about their adoption.
Coming Soon
For those wanting a sample of what’s on the community calendar for March…
To learn more and to get help from any of our official third-party certifiers, simply visit our partner page and click on the relevant logos. That said, remember you have various options when adopting our standards. The most common route is for companies to start with self-certification, so if you are new to this… check out the checklists and questionnaires below.
The OpenChain Community Calendar has been revamped to make it much easier to find and attend our events. The new calendar view is in list format and is now present on both our landing page and our participation page.
The next OpenChain Germany Work Group meeting will be held online on Thursday 30 March 2023, from 09:00 to 11:00 CET. The meeting will be held under Chatham House conditions to ensure frank discussion. Big thanks to PwC for arranging and hosting us once again.
The preliminary agenda of the next online meeting is as follows:
Global compliance market briefing (OpenChain)
German market insights (PwC/all)
Case study 1 – security market briefing
Case study 2 – state of tooling in open-source automation
Report on the SBOM situation
Join us for the opportunity to share knowledge, take part in frank discussion and network with German players in the Open Source world. To register for this event, please click “Registration” in the menu above
Registration is open until 29 March 2023. We’ll send you an email with further information as soon as you’ve registered for the event, followed by your login details at a later date.
The 17th meeting of the OpenChain Korea Work Group takes place on March 28, 2023 at Line Plus between 14:00 and 16:00 KST. Everyone is invited (as usual).
Details
Schedule: 2023-03-28 (Tue) 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Line Plus (Seohyeon 1-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do)
The next OpenChain UK Work Group meeting will be kindly hosted by the BBC at their Salford studios in Media City on the 28th of March. Thank you to David Buckhurst and Tom Sadler at the BBC for arranging this. For those staying overnight, there is a tentative plan to gather for a meal in the evening.
