Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the availability of a new leaflet designed to help Sales and Procurement Departments understand and include the OpenChain standard for open source compliance in their workflow. As with all OpenChain reference material this is provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain, and suggestions or improvements are always welcome.

Get these guides and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

InterneuronCIC was an early adopter of the OpenChain industry standard for open source compliance, and have had an OpenChain 1.2 conformant program for a considerable time. Today they have completed conformance to OpenChain 2.0, the latest version of our standard, and a specification that is functionally identical to our forthcoming ISO International Standard. A big congratulations to all the team.

A message from our friends in the German Work Team.

We have finished a first draft of the German translation of the policy template. We invite you to have a look and provide feedback.

The translation is based on the official English document for the 2.0 specification from the reference material repository. Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

You can find the current draft of the translation in this Google document: 

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l51rSicu7SXSXEvX0TqqiSWko2LZrI0m/view?usp=sharing.

Feel free to comment there.

We have kept the original English text for now at the side because that makes it easier to compare and check the translation. In the final version this will be removed and only the German text will be kept.

As a spreadsheet it’s not ideal for detailed review of specific parts of the text. If it’s more convenient for you feel free to copy it into another form of document and comment there.

If you have any questions or would like to get involved you can also contact me or Stefan Thanheiser <stefan.thanheiser@fiduciagad.de> directly.

The plan for the next steps is to get the document a round of reviews, incorporate the resulting feedback, and then create a pull request to the reference material repository with the final version.

Cornelius Schumacher
Open Source StewardChief Technology Office (T.IVO)
DB Systel GmbH

The OpenChain UK Work Group is holding its second meeting via Zoom on Wednesday 30 September from 14:00 – 16:00 BST.

This meeting will build on the success of the inaugural meeting in July which attracted a stellar roster of speakers, including: Shane Coughlan (Linux Foundation), Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Hiroyuki Fukuchi (Sony), Andrew Katz (Orcro), Sami Atabani (Arm),Thomas Steenbergen (HERE Technologies) and Mirko Boehm, as well as a diverse range of delegates from around the world.

Bookings for the September meeting are now open and can be made via the Eventbrite booking form.

The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.

Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner of Moorcrofts, CEO of Orcro Limited and Chair of the OpenChain UK Work Group, said:

“We’re delighted to see such a high calibre of organisations and individuals involved in the group at the early stages. As we move forward, we hope to see smaller companies join, who are looking to start their OpenChain journey, so we can continue to broaden the reach of the group and OpenChain adoption in the UK.”

To join the OpenChain UK Work Group visit: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg and subscribe to the list to receive future details about the bi-monthly meetings and to sync and share information across all aspects of open source compliance. More information about the group can be found on its draft terms of reference document: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg/files.

This meeting of the OpenChain Korea Work group will take place on the day our ISO voting process wraps up! Expect exciting updates.

• Schedule: 2020-09-22 (Thu) 2:00~4:00 pm
• How to join on PC
  1. Access https://uberconference.com/openchainproject from a PC
  2. After entering Your Name, click “Join audio-only” to enter the room
  3. After checking the microphone and speaker settings on the Confirm settings screen> Join conference
• How to join on Phone 1.Call 02-6022-2388 from a mobile phone 2.Enter 855 889 3011#