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 Tooling Work Group holds meetings on a bi-weekly schedule. They allow anyone with an interest in open source tooling for license, security or other compliance matters to learn, share and collaborate. All levels of experience are welcome.
Our next meeting takes place on the 16th of July 2025 at 17:00 CEST (15:00 UTC).
The OpenChain Project will hold a webinar on the 29th of July 2025 to provide a case study on how ZF – one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers – collaborated with TIMETOACT to obtain third-party certification for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230.
2025-07-29 @ 07:00 UTC / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CEST / 15:00 CST / 16:00 KST + JST
Join at the start time using this link:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/91433079580?password=a677a4f4-2af5-4453-8ec9-07dcc28f9656
This case study is suitable for organizations new to the OpenChain standards, organizations in the process of adopting the standards, or organizations reviewing how others met this milestone in open source process management. It will be structured as a series of short section presentations that provide:
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.
This OpenChain Webinar will be broadcast on 2025-07-29.
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The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.
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Woven by Toyota, a company designed to drive the evolution of mobility to enhance safety, peace of mind, fulfillment and opportunity for all, has completed its periodic re-conformance to the OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 specification. ISO/IEC 5230 is the international standard for open source license compliance process management, and has seen widespread adoption throughout the mobility industry.
Our current challenge is a lack of momentum in our meeting schedule and discussions. The challenge appears to be caused by two things:
We have created a document to help everyone share ideas (and refine other ideas) about next steps in the country. You can find and add comments to the document here:
Our current challenge is a lack of momentum in our meeting schedule and discussions. The challenge appears to be caused by two things:
We have created a document to help everyone share ideas (and refine other ideas) about next steps in the country. You can find and add comments to the document here:
This was a busy meeting. Lead by Chris Wood (Chair, Specification Work Group), and featuring discussions from Martin Yagi (Chair Education Work Group) and Dave Marr (Co-Chair AI Work Group), we worked through the following agenda:
We have full but focused activity ahead.
Everyone is welcome to be part of the Specification Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification/
You can find and be part of all OpenChain calls through our participation page here:
https://openchainproject.org/participate
This webinar covered how the team in VW Group are doing compliance at CARIAD with ORT. Helio Chissini de Castro lead the discussion, and we had some interesting Q&A.
This is an outcome webinar from the OpenChain and Friends event in Stuttgart, Germany during April 2025. This event saw speakers from Germany and beyond come together to share best practices around open source process management, compliance and automation.
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.
This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-07-03.
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