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.
Check out our first “full spectrum” call, expanding from our traditional Specification Work Team, and providing all the global work teams with space to catch up and share.
The next call is on the Fourth Monday of November (23rd) at 5pm Pacific.
On this webinar Tim Bird of Sony spoke on ‘Issues with Open Source License Compliance in Consumer Electronics’, a variant of a speech recently delivered at Open Source Summit Europe, and made available here for our global audience along with a great Q&A.
The full recording of our recent Education Work Group meeting is now available. Big news this time around as we lock down collaboration with LF Training to make a free online course (we get their stuff as CC-0!), how we will work, and our target release dates.
Our regular bi-weekly webinar will cover an exciting topic at 5pm Pacific today (Monday) – 8am Beijing/Taipei – 9am Seoul/Tokyo (Tuesday).
Tim Bird of Sony will cover ‘Issues with Open Source License Compliance in Consumer Electronics’, a variant of a speech recently delivered at Open Source Summit Europe, and made available live here for audiences in the USA and Asia.
The OpenChain Project hosted a special three hour mini-summit to explain the three options for compliance to the International Standard for open source compliance. Learn about self-certification, independent assessment and third-party certification from the experts in each area.
Part 1 – Self-Certification (1 hour session)
The core of the International Standard for open source license compliance is self-certification. This is a process where a company reviews the requirements of the standard and checks whether their current processes match these requirements. If necessary, a company can make adjustments to processes. Self-certification can be accomplished in several ways. The most common are:
Part 2 – Independent Compliance Assessment (1 hour session)
Companies often want assistance in adopting an International Standard. One common form is Independent Assessment, where a knowledgable service provider reviews a company’s processes and provides objective feedback on where adjustments or improvements may be necessary. The OpenChain International Standard for open source compliance has a process called “Independent Compliance Assessment” that is provided by trusted partners of the project. These partners may be law firms or service vendors. Two of our existing partners, Source Code Control (UK) and AlektoMetis (Germany), hosted a session explaining this approach and their respective service offerings.
Part 3 – Third-Party Certification (1 hour session)
In some markets third-party certification is an important part of inter-company relationships. Examples are automotive, infrastructure and aviation, where strict regulation and regular audits are well-served by formal certification by third-parties. The OpenChain International Standard for open source compliance approaches third-party certification in the same way as other International Standards. Two of our existing partners, PwC (Germany) and Orcro (UK), hosted a session explaining this approach and their respective service offerings.
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.
The OpenChain India Work Group held its third meeting on the 30th of October 2020. Check out the full recording and join our future activity via our dedicated mailing list.
We had a great discussion on the most recent fourth Monday Specification meeting. Key topics were around timescales for releases (we plan to have long periods between releases) and expanding this call to cover our other global work teams as well (which we decided was a good idea).
Check it out below and look forward to an expanded format in November.
Balakrishna @ Bosch led the revival of the OpenChain Education Work Group with two meetings exploring the creation of online training for the International Standard for open source license compliance. Catch up and contribute via these recordings and by subscribing to our list.
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On October 28th at 19:30 GMT Shane Coughlan spoke at Open Source Summit Europe 2020. His talk explored the process of building and deploying the first Linux Foundation ISO standard in fourteen years in collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation. It explained why the evolution from de facto industry standard to formal standardization was important for open source compliance in the context of areas like sales, procurement and M&A.
inwinSTACK, a Taiwan-based provider of private, public and hybrid cloud technology, is the latest organization to announce an OpenChain conformant program. inwinSTACK has been contributing in open source community, providing services/products with open source software. Participating in workgroups of Linux Foundation among AI, Edge and Hyperledger. “OpenChain Conformance also present our commitment to open source compliance”, says Joeseph Wang, Sales VP, InwinSTACK Technologies Inc. “Licensing compliance give indemnification for our customers free from intellectual property lawsuit. We have enforced OpenChain Conformance throughout in internal CI/CD process. Also planning to pass ISO/IEC DIS 5203 in the future. Our long term policy will keep devoting in open source communities”
“We are delighted to welcome inwinSTACK to our community of conformance for several reasons,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their position as a cloud provider helps to underscore the utility of OpenChain in this space, where our International Standard for open source compliance has a positive impact on resource use, time to market, and effective intellection property management. Secondly, it is great to welcome another company based in Taiwan to our community, underlining our vibrant, growing local community. We look forward to working with inwinSTACK and many of their peers in the coming years.”
