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Shane Coughlan

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.

Mar 15

TÜV NORD Taiwan is the latest OpenChain Partner

By Featured

TÜV NORD Taiwan is the latest official OpenChain Partner. TÜV NORD Taiwan was founded in 1988 and is one of the leading providers of quality, safety, information technology, and renewable energy solutions. The company has highly qualified employees and offers national and international customers the complete provide the one-stop service for local customers.

“We are delighted to being our official partnership with TÜV NORD Taiwan,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “The availability of certification and other support services is critical to ensure companies have options when using our standards for license compliance and security assurance. Especially in mission critical industries like automotive, the option of third-party certification alongside self-certification is vitally important.”

About TÜV NORD Taiwan

TÜV NORD Taiwan is one of the world’s largest technical service providers.

We owe our leading market position to our technical competence and a wide range of engineering support, testing and servicing activities in the Systems, Mobility, Certification, Energy, training and International Divisions.

With over 14,000 employees in more than 70 countries of Europe, Asia, America and Africa, the TÜV NORD GROUP is actively committed to its national and international customers. Its broad consulting, service and testing/inspection portfolio encompasses both specific individual tests/inspections and also management of complex safety solutions.

The TÜV NORD GROUP is made up of the following divisions: Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources. As a customer-oriented competence centre, it is in constant contact with its customers for analyzing, consulting, developing individual solutions and joint implementation with the customer.

TÜV NORD GROUP customers benefit from the broad, well-founded expertise of the consultants and inspectors. Through their understanding of the subject and the customer, the employees form the backbone of the company’s success.

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Mar 13

OpenChain ISO/IEC Featured In Journal Of Software (软件学报)

By Featured, News

OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 is featured positively in the ‘Survey on Open-source Software Supply Chain Security’ published in the Journal Of Software (软件学报) Volume 33, Issue 3, 2023.

This article by JI Shou-Ling, WANG Qin-Ying, CHEN An-Ying, ZHAO Bin-Bin, YE Tong, ZHANG Xu-Hong, WU Jing-Zheng, LI Yun, YIN Jian-Wei and WU Yan-Jun is worth reading in full for insight from a key market space for open source.

In recent years, the vigorous development of open source software and the modern software development and supply models have greatly facilitated the rapid iteration and evolution of open source software, resulting in increased social benefits. The emerging collaborative software development model of open source has transformed the software development supply process from a relatively linear path to a complex network structure. Within open-source software’s complex and intertwined supply relationships, the overall security risk trend has significantly increased, drawing increasing attention from the academic and industrial communities. This work tries to define the new open-source software supply chain model and, based on attacks that have occurred over the past decade, summarizes the threat model and security trends of the open-source software supply chain. For securing the open-source software supply chain, this work provides a systematic overview from the perspectives of risk identification and reinforced defense and also highlight the new challenges and opportunities.

https://www.jos.org.cn/josen/article/abstract/6717

Want To Learn More About Journal Of Software?

The Journal of Software (ISSN 1000-9825) is a Chinese comprehensive academic journal of computer software which is jointly hosted by the Institute of software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and China Computer Federal (CCF). Founded in 1990, the Journal of Software focuses on the latest innovative high-level scientific and technological achievements of great significance in the field of computer software. It advocates academic democracy and promotes academic discussion and exchange of the researchers in and out of China.

Check out their website: https://www.jos.org.cn/josen/home?id=20171219032526650&name=Home

Mar 10

OpenChain Project One Slide Overview Updated

By Featured, News

The one slide overview of the OpenChain Project has been updated to provide simple, clear messaging about how and why our work provides value to companies in the supply chain.

This document is available in PDF format, PNG format, PPTX format or ODP format. You may take it, use it, share it and remix it freely using the terms of the CC0 license, effectively public domain.

You can help us improve this document, translate it and convert it into new formats through the OpenChain GitHub Reference Library. We are actively seeking a MarkDown version for ease of future iteration.

Mar 09

ISO/IEC 5230 One Pager Updated

By Featured, News

The ISO/IEC 5230 one page overview has been updated to provide simple, clear messaging about how and why the International Standard for open source license compliance provides value to companies in the supply chain.

This document is available in PDF format, PNG format or InDesign format. You may take it, use it, share it and remix it freely using the terms of the CC0 license, effectively public domain.

You can help us improve this document, translate it and convert it into new formats through the OpenChain GitHub Reference Library. We are actively seeking a MarkDown version for ease of future iteration.

Mar 08

OpenChain Monthly Meeting 2023-03-07 – Recording

By Featured, News

Our monthly North America / Europe meeting for March saw continued discussion around the OpenChain Specification Editing Process. Helio and Chris (Co-Chairs of the Specification Work Group) explored topics related to previously mentioned and new issues. Full recording below. All activity captured on GitHub.

Mar 07

OpenChain Export Control Work Group – Third Meeting – 2023-03-07 – Recording

By Featured, News

The OpenChain Export Control Work Group held its third meeting on the 7th of March at 08:00 UTC. The focus was on reviewing the new volunteer project being set up at https://github.com/crypto-law-survey to explore the continuation of Bert’s http://www.cryptolaw.org/ as a general community resource.

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Mar 07

Webinar: FOSDEM Recap

By community, Featured, News, Webinar

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #49, released on 2023-03-07.