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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.

Coming Soon: OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #31 – 2024-06-27

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The OpenChain Japan Work Group will host its 31st regular meeting on the 27th of June at the Kioxia Corporation Head Office. As always, everyone is invited to attend this meeting. Additionally, on the 28th of June there will be a meeting co-hosted for the OSPO Sub-Work Group Local Meetup.

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Event Details in Japanese

大変長らくお待たせいたしました、次回の全体会合に関する正式のご案内です。

ちょっといろいろあってご案内が遅くなってしまいましたが、
既にスケジュールは押さえていただいているでしょうから大丈夫ですよね!
お待たせした分、内容的には大充実のアジェンダになっております。
サイボウズの武内さんによる基調講演、トヨタ自動車の遠藤さんによる先進事例紹介、
キオクシアの關さんによるOSPOの取組事例紹介、BOF、ライトニングトークなど、
いずれも「ここでしか聞けない」大変貴重なお話ばかりです。
是非ご参加ください!できれば現地で!!(一部コンテンツはオンライン配信無し)
以下、詳細です。

【第31回OpenChain Japan全体会合(第6回ハイブリッド会合) 】
・日時:2024年6月27日(木) 13:30 – 17:15 (13:00開場)
・場所:キオクシア株式会社本社(田町ステーションタワーS 10階)
・アジェンダ:添付のご案内をご覧ください。 (頑張って作ったので見て欲しいだけ)
・参加方法
 現地参加の方は、添付のご案内の「全体会合への参加方法」から事前登録をお願いします。
 オンライン参加の方は、事前登録は不要です。(zoomのURLも、添付のご案内に記載)

★ライトニングトーク資料作成・発表のお願い★
 全体会合では、各社の事例を共有いただいて議論する「ライトニングトーク」をおこないます。
 添付「第7回 ライトニングトーク (LT) 資料作成・発表のお願い」をご参照の上、
 貴社の事例を共有いただけましたら幸いです。
 多くの事例が集まることで、より詳しい傾向分析やディスカッションができますので、
 当日ご参加予定の方もそうでない方も、是非、事例のシェアをお願いします!
 (資料の提出はこちらまで→openchain-jp-lt-office@ml.jp.panasonic.com)

【OSPO SWGローカルミートアップ(Co-Located Event)】
・日時:2024年6月28日(金) 10:00 – 11:30
・場所:キオクシア株式会社本社(全体会合と同じ会場)
・参加方法
 現地参加の方は、添付のご案内の「全体会合への参加方法」から事前登録をお願いします。
 オンライン参加の方は、事前登録は不要です。(zoomのURLも、添付のご案内に記載)

さて、早いもので明日から6月。
OpenChain Japanのクラフトビール部の活動が活発になる時期ですね、と書いたところで、
奴らは通年活発だったわ、と考えなおしました。
(OSSと同じくらいクラフトビールが好きな方、どうぞご一緒に。)

では、次回全体会合でお会いしましょう! お楽しみに。

OpenChain Japan Planning 渡邊

Coming Soon: OpenChain Korea Work Group Meeting #22 – 2024-06-20

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The OpenChain Korea Work Group will host its 22nd regular meeting on the 20th of June at the CJ Talent Training Center in Seoul. As always, everyone is invited to attend a series of talks, case studies and networking sessions designed to support professionals from companies using open source in the business supply chain.

일정

  • 일정: 2024-06-20 (목) 오후2시~5시
  • 장소: CJ 인재원 4층 Auditorium

아젠다

TimeAgendaSpeakerSlide
14:00~14:10Welcome & OpeningCJ
14:10~14:20OpenChain Global UpdateShane Coughlan, Linux Foundation
14:20~14:40OpenChain Korea Update & Subgroup 운영 방안장학성, SK텔레콤
박정숙, ETRI
박원재, LG전자
14:40~15:10CJ 오픈소스 관리시스템 구축 사례성기영, CJ
15:10~15:40Entr’ouvert v. Orange 소송 사례조정년, SK주식회사
15:40~16:00BreakAll
16:00~16:30ISO/IEC 18974 오픈소스 보안 표준 준비 현황 공유채진영/김기륜, 삼성SDS
16:30~17:00정부 발표, SBOM 기반 SW공급망 관리 가이드라인 소개박원재, LG전자

Learn More About This Meeting

Learn More About All The Previous Korea Work Group Meetings

Learn More About The Korea Work Group

Coming Soon: OpenChain @ OSBC Open Source Conference 2024 – 2024-06-19

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Kobota San of Sony, one of the OpenChain Governing Board members, will represent the OpenChain Project at the OSBC Open Source Conference 2024 in Seoul on the 19th of June 2024. His talk, entitled ‘Introduction of Sony Group Open Source Activities and Contributions to the OpenChain and SPDX (SBOM) Project,’ will open the afternoon session at 13:00.

Kobota San is well known in the OpenChain Project for his commitment to community collaboration and events, and is frequently found at open source events in Japan and around the world. A key contributor to initiatives like the SPDX Lite profile of the SPDX SBOM format, Kobota San is one of the main figures in the Planning Sub-Group of the OpenChain Japan Work Group.

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OpenChain @ OSS Europe – Creating Standards – From Writing a Spec to Obtaining ISO Status

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Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:00 – 11:40 CEST

Happening in Room 0.14 (Level 0)

Part of the Standards & Specifications Forum

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will deliver a talk on how to create open specifications and evolve them into formal international standards through ISO.

Abstract

This talk will explain the process of going from a blank page to an ISO standard using OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 as a case study. It will explain how the OpenChain specification team came together, how they created the first iterations of what would become ISO/IEC 5230, and how they collaborated with Joint Development Foundation (JDF) to evolve from de-facto industry standard into formal international standard through the JTC-1 PAS Transposition Process. Attendees will learn how to frame, build and deploy their own specifications and standards, with a particular focus on the practical decisions required: should this be a specification, should it be an ISO standard and what do I need to do to make this happen?

About Shane Coughlan

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated OIN into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

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OpenChain @ OSS Europe – Open Source and IP Departments: Risk Containment and Portfolio Management

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Monday September 16, 2024 12:15 – 12:35 CEST

Happening in Room 0.94-0.95 (Level 0)

Part of the Operations Management Summit

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will deliver a talk on how to discuss open source with IP departments.

Abstract

Product teams, R&D teams and OSPOs occasionally find themselves in an adversarial situation with IP Departments around open source and how it should be managed in an organization. This is usually due to misunderstandings about how open source provides value and how the risks associated with it can be contained. With open source increasingly necessary for organizations to compete effectively, it is important to ensure all departments understand its strategic importance, and how to manage it in the context of their KPIs and requirements. This talk will explain how to collaborate with IP Departments using the language of external risk containment and internal portfolio management, and help IP Department staff assess open source as part of a diversified IPR strategy.

About Shane Coughlan

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated OIN into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

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Webinar – OFE Briefing on the EU Product Liability Directive

By legal, News, Webinar

On the 11th of June 2024, 07:00 UTC there was a special briefing from OpenForum Europe (OFE) on the EU Product Liability Directive. It is part of a series provided by OFE on European policy matters that impact open source, business processes and risk management.

More Details

“European Union reached provisional (political) agreement on the text for the proposed revision of the EU’s Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC (PLD). The PLD establishes a strict liability (i.e., no fault) regime to enable claimants to seek compensation for defective products across the EU, meaning claimants do not need to establish fault to claim successfully. As a result, it is the preferred way of making product liability claims in the EU. The revision is a significant development, as the PLD dates back to 1985 and has been virtually unchanged for nearly 40 years – with only very minor amendments in 1999.”
https://products.cooley.com/2023/12/21/new-product-liability-laws-one-step-closer-in-europe/

Our Speaker is Ciarán O’Riordan, Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe. His background is as a free software / open source software policy and communications expert.

OFE is a not-for-profit, Brussels-based independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing to policy makers and communities across Europe. Originally launched in 2002 to accelerate and broaden the use of Open Source Software (OSS) among businesses, consumers and governments, OFE’s focus has since evolved to also cover issues related to Open standards, Cybersecurity, Digital Government, Public Procurement, Intellectual Property, Cloud Computing and Internet Policy.
https://openforumeurope.org/

More in the OFE Series

We held three special briefings from OFE for the OpenChain community from May to June 2024.

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.

Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars

This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2024-06-11.

OpenChain Governing Board Strategy Sub-Committee Meeting – Education Work Group Review – 2024-06-11 – Recording

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The OpenChain Governing Board has a Strategy Sub-Committee chaired by Matthew Crawford from Arm. This Sub-Committee reviews strategic topics, and many of its meetings are open to all OpenChain community participants. Recently it has been focusing on overviews of Work Group activity. In this meeting, the Sub-Committee hears from Andrew Katz of Orcro, chair of the Education Work Group.

Get Involved

Everyone is welcome to join public meetings of the Strategy Sub-Committee. These meetings will be promoted on our main mailing list and are listed here:

OpenChain Telco Work Group Meetings – 2024-06-06 – Recording

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The OpenChain Telco Work Group held its regular monthly calls on the 6th of June. You can review the full recordings below.

Get Involved

Everyone is welcome to be part of the Telco Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/telco

Please note: you do not have to be an expert in telecommunications or work for a telecommunications company to join the group. Work on subjects like the Telco SBOM Quality Guide is intended to also help other market sectors.

OpenChain Monthly North America and Europe Call – 2024-06-05 – Recording

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The OpenChain Specification Work Group held its regular monthly call on the 5th of June. This call has a regular agenda of reviewing project news, working on our draft future specifications, looking at reference or education material, and opening the floor to other topics.

The following issues were closed during this call:

Security Assurance Review

License Compliance Review

Join Our Work

Everyone is welcome to be part of the Specification Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification/

You can find and be part of all OpenChain calls through our participation page here:
https://openchainproject.org/participate

OpenChain AI Study Group – Monthly Workshop for North America and Europe – 2024-06-04 – Recording

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The OpenChain AI Study Group held its regular monthly workshop on the 4th of June. This workshop included a short presentation from Max @ Alibaba, as well as other discussions to narrow down shared areas of concern and interest regarding AI compliance in the supply chain.

Track This Work

You can follow and contribute to the work of the OpenChain AI Study Group through its dedicated mailing list. This is open to everyone regardless of industry vertical or speciality. You will find it here:

Attend Future Meetings

You can find and get the dial-in details for all future AI Study Group meetings from our participate page here: