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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.

Webinar: Digging Further Into SBOMs and the Supply Chain

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This episode explores how a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) like SPDX ISO/IEC 5962 can optimize operations in the supply chain by ensuring manual or automated analysis works in a more efficient and effective manner.

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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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #67, released on 2024-02-01. “Automation Case Study #6 – Digging Further Into The Supply Chain” on 2021-12-09.

Webinar: SBOMs in a Virtual Supply Chain

By automation, licensing, News, standards, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This webinar explores how SPDX ISO/IEC 5962 works as a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in the supply chain through existing open source tooling for open source compliance.

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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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #66, released on 2024-02-01. It was originally published as “Automation Case Study #5 – SBOMs in a Virtual Supply Chain” on 2021-11-24.

Webinar: How The Graphical Interface Can Help With Using TERN

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This episode explores how TERN (a container scanner) works both with the graphical tool and when used on its own.

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More About Our Webinars:

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #65, released on 2024-02-01. It was originally published as “”Automation Case Study #4 – How The Graphical Interface Can Help With Using TERN” on 2021-10-29.

Webinar: How The Graphical Interface Can Help With Using Open Source Review Toolkit (ORT)

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This episode explores how ORT (the Open Source Review Toolkit) works both with the graphical tool and when used on its own.

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More About Our Webinars:

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #64, released on 2024-02-01. It was originally published as “Automation Case Study #3 – How The Graphical Interface Can Help With Using Open Source Review Toolkit (ORT)” on 2021-10-15.

Webinar: A New Open Source Graphical Interface For Tooling

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This episode explores the engineering behind the new graphical tool from Facebook/TNG that makes open source tooling easier to use.

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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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #63, released on 2024-02-01. It was originally published as “”Automation Case Study #2 – A New Open Source Graphical Interface For Tooling” on 2021-09-29.

Webinar: Contextualizing Tooling and Analysis

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

The OpenChain Project ran a series of webinars about using open source tools for open source compliance ran between September and December 2021. They have been re-published in the main webinar series to improve discoverability. This episode explores a new graphical tool from Facebook/TNG to make open source tooling easier to use. Our demo shows ORT calling ScanCode in a clean, simple way. We also discuss how the graphical interface was designed.

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More About Our Webinars:

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #62, released on 2024-02-01. It was originally published as “Automation Case Study #1 – Contextualizing Tooling and Analysis” on 2021-09-22.

Webinar: FOSS License Management through aliens4friends in Eclipse Oniro

By automation, licensing, News, Webinar

Welcome to another OpenChain Webinar. This time our speakers are Alberto Pianon and Carlo Piana from ARRAY. They are presenting the Open Source Management concept of Eclipse Oniro and explaining how deeper insights on the identification of the FOSS components and their respective license metadata can be uncovered via the audit policies for Oniro. This webinar is part of a series by the OpenChain Automation Workgroup to provide insight into good practices for community-based IP audits. These good practices will be used to align on a community-wide approach for metadata curation as base for sharing FOSS License Management Data.

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More About Our Webinars:

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #58, released on 2024-01-31.

Coming Soon: OpenChain Webinar #59 – Curating FOSS license information for the OSSelot database – 2024-02-14 @ 09:00 CET

By News

About This Webinar

Caren Kresse from OSADL will talk about sharing and reusing publicly available FOSS compliance material, as provided by the OSSelot project (https://www.osselot.org/), which requires trust in the reliability of the data. Such trust can be fostered by ensuring high quality and consistency of the data through a standardized curation process and strict review of all contributions. This presentation will demonstrate the curation process for the OSSelot project, present the resulting material, and give an example of how a contribution is reviewed.

The webinar will take place on 2024-02-14 @ 09:00 CET.

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CEHLabs Announces An OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program

By News

CEHLabs has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program.

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Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) the three domains that reduce your business Information and Cyber Security Risk . The domains has different impact areas of the business, with a common goal of reducing quantifiable risk of the business falling victim to cyber security threat which if realised would impact you business into loss of trust with your customers or reputation damage. Here at CEHLabs our primary service is protecting your business from cyber threats by implementing ISO/IEC 5320:2020 of the OpenChain, NIST 800 53b revision 5, HM IS1 and IS2, Cyber Assurance Framework and Cloud First Cyber Essential Plus. In Compliance we are certified to assess under PCI-DSS and HIPPA.

OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2024-01-17

By News

This meeting features a talk about maturity models and how recent developments apply to open source and especially standards like ISO/IEC 5230:2020. The maturity model discussion was presented by Andrew Katz and Stephen Pollard of Orcro and is a direct follow-up from the panel covering this topic at the Open Compliance Summit 2023. 

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