Shane Coughlan

The first OpenChain PlayBook is now available. It focuses on showing how a medium size company can go from considering to using OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020.

The OpenChain PlayBooks are intended to help you understand the types of decisions made by managers in companies adopting OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020. We cover examples of the decision-process in small, medium and large companies. Our examples are based on companies (a) in the technology industry, (b) in the middle of the supply chain and (c) shipping physical products containing software.

This may sound specific. However, the intention is to provide a thinking-tool for your company. Whether you are in the technology, finance, cloud, infrastructure or automotive industry (or any other), you will face similar challenges and solutions. The same applies whether you are in the middle of the supply chain or at its end, and whether you are shipping hardware or software. Our chosen examples cover a lot of ground.

Finally, this PlayBook contains an appendix with all the questions you need to answer to become OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 conformant. If you can answer all of these questions with “yes,” you have a conformant program. If you answer some of the questions with “no,” you know where to invest resources.

Get The Medium Company PlayBook

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/blob/master/PlayBooks/Official/Version-1/Medium-Company/en/OpenChain%20PlayBook%20-%20Medium%20Company.pdf

There may be situations where you would like more examples for more specific industries. This is where the OpenChain community comes in. You can join our mailing lists, our webinars, our group calls and our regional work groups to discuss challenges with your peers and in your native language.

You can get started here:

• https://www.openchainproject.org/community

ETRI, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of South Korea, has announced an OpenChain Conformant program. This program builds on other recent announcements of conformant programs in Korea from companies like LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics to solidify adoption of OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 in the market.

The ETRI is a global information and communication technology (ICT) research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT that has led the growth of the information and communication industry in Korea for 45 years since its establishment in 1976. The research institute is preparing to take a powerful leap forward to realize ‘Korea, an AI powerhouse’ with the vision of “a national intelligence research institute that creates a future society”. ETRI has been conducting open source verification as a software quality management since 2008. ETRI established the Open Source Center as an enterprise-wide organization to support open source R&D activities as well as open source governance and compliance since 2017.

With this OpenChain certification, ETRI is pleased to have received international recognition as a more reliable and efficient open source management and development institution. And it is expected to increase the international credibility of the open source software developed by ETRI in the future. ETRI plans to continuously promote open innovation in open source R&D activities and to build the robust open source ecosystem through strong cooperation with other research institutes and companies as well as academia. The president of ETRI, Dr. Myung-Jun Kim said, “The open source based collaboration is now becoming a new paradigm to realize the R&D innovation that determines the future ICT competitiveness of the nation as a whole. We will take the lead in spreading the healthy and robust open source ecosystem.”

“The OpenChain Project maintains ISO/IEC 5230 and the support structures needed to sustain it,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “This has helped organizations around the world adopt our standard. Our greatest strength is the international community we have fostered to offer realistic, relatable knowledge in this field. I am proud to say that our Korea Work Group is one of the most dynamic in the world, and today’s news underscores the power of collaboration. We are delighted to welcome ETRI into the community of conformance, and we will work together at the cutting edge of technology and open source.” 

Big news today as we formally welcome FOSSA to the OpenChain Partner Program. Their expertise and leadership gToday we welcome FOSSA to the OpenChain Partner Program. Their expertise and leadership gives a significant boost to support available for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the International Standard for open source license compliance.

Learn more on their blog:

• https://fossa.com/blog/fossa-partners-openchain-open-source-management/

Our annual Japan Work Group Advent Calendar is now underway. This is perhaps the largest annual community activity around our global project, with over 20 articles published by contributors from a wide range of companies. Posts often have English summaries, and this is a great way to check out some of the key Far Eastern news around OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020. Huge thanks to Watanabe San, Fukuchi San, Owada San, and everyone else who makes this happen!

A Message From Watanabe San:

Hello. If this is your first visit, nice to meet you. Thank you very much for your attention to this article.
Welcome to OpenChain Japan WG Advent Calendar 2021!!
We, OpenChain Japan WG, is a Japanese community whose activities involve Open Source Software (OSS) compliance. This is our third advent calendar, continuing from 2020 and 2021. We will deliver to you a series of 25 articles about our activities of this year and topics of open source. And the same as last year, we will write every article both in Japanese and English and deliver them to everyone in the world.
We would be very happy if you became a little interested in our activities and the importance of OSS compliance from reading our articles. I hope you like it!!

As the beginning of this advent calendar, let’s start with a comment from Shane Coughlan, the General Manager of OpenChain Project…

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Check Out The Whole Calendar As It Happens

• https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2021/openchainjapanwg

I am not totally sure what our Korean Work Group is planning for the 12th meeting on the 20th but I suspect we may not be seeing all of them again.

Regardless, here is the agenda!

Learn More About This Event And Join Here

• https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/meeting/12th/

Thanks to the hard work of Zier den Heijer, Shurjeel Tousif shurjeel.tousif@sequenx.com and the rest of the team at SeQuenX BV we have a Dutch translation of the Supplier Education Pack. This pack is a one email, one attachement method to bring your suppliers up-to-speed on open source, OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 and how to adopt the International Standard for open source license compliance.

With this milestone we have the Supplier Education Pack available in nine languages.

Get the Supplier Education Pack

• https://www.openchainproject.org/supplier-education-pack