Shane Coughlan

Dirk Riehle will deliver our 43rd webinar as we explore Inner Source and the OSPO. He will introduce inner source, its significance for the open source program office, and how to quantify and solve the problem of intellectual property value flows inside companies.

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Learn More About Our Speaker

• https://dirkriehle.com/about/

The OpenChain Project is committed to helping companies around the world experience a trusted supply chain. As part of this, our community develops and releases a ton of reference material to provide context, examples and training.

In our latest training course you can learn how open source compliance management systems should be structured and implemented to be most effective. Take the course for free over at LF Training and get a badge to mark your completion.

• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/implementing-open-source-license-compliance-management-lfc194/

Did You Know?

This is our second training course. You can obtain more foundational knowledge for free right here:

• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-open-source-license-compliance-management-lfc193/

Ahead of the results of the main OpenChain Industry Survey 2022, we wanted to share the results of an earlier survey we held at the OpenChain IP Summit. We have twelve responses (around 22% of the audience).

These results include some interesting insights into company focus and evolution SBOM, OSPO/SCA collaboration, and the use of tooling.

Check the results out below.

Main interest:
33% Copyright
0% Patents
67% Copyright and Patents

Was this event directly relevant to your work?
100% Yes

Is tooling (automaton) something critical to your work?
92% Yes
8% No

Is the use of SBOM a reality for your supply chain today?
67% Yes
17% No
17% Partially

Does your OSPO collaborate closely with your SCA team?
67% Yes
0% No
25% Not Applicable

Do you collaborate with other companies to share SCA, SBOM or tooling approaches?
25% Yes
33% No
42% To a limited extent

SECTREND, a Chinese company providing SCA services, is the latest company to join the OpenChain Partner community. As a leading vendor inside the Chinese market, their engagement marks another important step in ensuring freedom of choice around tooling for license compliance, security and other matters.

“We are thrilled to join the OpenChain with other participating members around the globe in the open source landscape,” says Alex Xue, Founder & CEO, SECTREND. “Since 2016, OpenChain has been innate to provide companies of all sizes in all markets a trusted and consistently compliant open source supply chain. SECTREND, together with OpenChain, will provide the open source community with plethora of contributions pertaining to tooling, training, research, best practices and consulting. The collaborative DNA of open source community and the OpenChain project will enable us to leverage the best-in-class resources from peers in all industries. We believe that such engagement and involvement will make the software supply chain more secure and reliable.”

“China is the largest single market in the world in terms of population, and the single most important part of the global supply chain,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “SECTREND represents the evolution of local leadership around open source. Adjacent to shipping products there is the need to continually refine processes in their support. SCA has been an essential part of this at the opening of our decade and it will remain pivotal in the years ahead.”

Learn More About SECTREND

• https://www.sectrend.com.cn/

Sometimes people worry that open source compliance is going to be difficult or expensive. This is a valid concern but it is also one we can quickly address. Open source has been used commercially for decades. All the expensive learning has been completed around licensing, and it is being shared by organizations around the world. After all, our goal is contribution, and cheap, effective compliance is part of that.

This guide from CAICT contains some open source compliance guidelines to help you get started. Think of it as a lighthouse to help guide your journey. The experience contained here will save you time and money. Most importantly, it will open more doors (and more code) to accelerate your products and your innovation.

— Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager

Learn More and Get the Guide:

• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bVtTFJ7xHCJSe_aol6ZQQA