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.
Fukuchi San from Sony has provided us with a draft outlining where the various sections of the OpenChain Specification fit into company process workflows. This is building on a document that was previously available for OpenChain Specification 1.2. The goal is to provide a quick framing of our industry standard for organizations considering adoption, considering conformance, or managing these activities.
We would like to collect feedback on this document as it is likely to disseminate widely throughout our community in various languages over time. Email our General Manager (scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org) or any of our mailing lists to provide comments and suggestions.
The 10th OpenChain Project interview is live! Meet Alex, who makes sure our collection of international activities are recorded and fit together, and who brought previous interviews to publication.
The OpenChain Project will have a substantial presence at the forthcoming Linux Foundation Member Summit held during the 10th to 12th March 2020 in Lake Tahoe.
The OpenChain Project will host a board meeting on the 9th of March, the day immediately before the Linux Foundation Member Summit. Adjacent to this we may hold a Steering Committee meeting. We have no voting item at this time but it could provide a space for a walk-through of the forthcoming ISO standard. If you have an interest in this being scheduled for 3pm on the 9th please let me know.
Stefan from Fiducia & GAD IT announced yesterday that work is well advanced on a German translation of our Supplier Education Leaflet. Originally created by a sub-group of the OpenChain Japan Work Group, the supplier education leaflet is available in Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Vietnamese as a draft.
Stefan’s full announcement and call for support
As discussed yesterday in Nuremberg during our kick-off meeting of the German OpenChain Working Group, I would like to reach out for support regarding finalisation of a translation of the Open Chain Supplier Leaflet into German.
The layout is not yet as complete as in the original – I would like to finalise the design after having sorted out the final German text. Thus, in a first round, quality checking of the text would be a good point to start 🙂
The OpenChain Germany Work Group Meeting # 1 has full video minutes here:
There are three key outcomes
(1) We will work on a reporting format for open source disclosure documentation.
(2) We will work on business process material for corporate contribution methods.
(3) We will take ownership of the German translations for OpenChain. This includes the Specification.
It should also be noted
(a) Meetings will be held on a bi-monthly schedule.
(b) The next meeting will probably be in Stuttgart. (i) Daimler+Bosch have offered to host in Stuttgart. (ii) HERE has offered to host in Berlin. (*) (iii) PwC has offered to host in Frankfurt.
(c) The Germany Work Group will be chaired by the host of each meeting.
Thank you to everyone for making this happen. On behalf of OpenChain Project as a whole, we are looking forward to next steps! — Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager.
(*) The meeting at HERE will probably be held adjacent to a TODO Group Europe meeting.
The video minutes for the first meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group are now available. This meeting was kindly hosted by Siemens in Nuremberg and featured 38 people from 29 companies. A big thank you to everyone who made it happen.
New from EACG: OpenChain Cheat Sheet – Conformance Requirements in One Page. This is a handy way to contextualize the whole industry standard for open source compliance in a single, easy-to-read handout.
Our partners over at PwC Germany have just released a video outlining their Third Part Certification for OpenChain Project. This is another example of the growing user community and support community around our industry standard for open source compliance.
License compliance will be simpler and more consistent.
SAN FRANCISCO, 5th February 2020 – Today, the OpenChain Project welcomes NTT DATA Italy as our latest official partner. From its integral role in building Japan’s financial systems to helping to advance safety in air transportation, NTT DATA has been a pioneer of social change for more than five decades. The Italian subsidiary of NTT DATA offers a wide range of services related to the effective, efficient use of open source technology.
The OpenChain standard defines inflection points
in business workflows where a compliance process, policy or training
should exist to minimize the potential for errors and maximize the
efficiency of bringing solutions to market. The companies involved in
the OpenChain community number in the hundreds. The OpenChain standard is
being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from de facto into
a formal standard in 2020.
“We are excited to announce our participation in the
OpenChain community in order to offer our clients high quality and trusted open
source solutions. With our contribution, we hope to increase the spread,
growth, sustainability, and compliance in the use of Open Source technologies. ”
says Stefano Veltri, Head of Open Source NTT DATA Italy.
“We are delighted to formally announce deeper
collaboration with NTT DATA in Italy,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General
Manager. “In 2020 we expect to greatly expand the community and the vendor
support available to companies across the European area. Our relationship with
NTT DATA Italy is an integral component in our mission to offer a wide range of
services adjacent to our industry standard for open source compliance.”
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a trusted global innovator headquartered in Tokyo, with 118,000+ professionals in more than 50 countries. We deal with innovation, design, technology, cybersecurity and AI, delivering tangible business results by combining deep industry expertise. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, a partner to 88 percent of the Fortune Global 100. www.nttdata.com/it
About the OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by
making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent.
The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every
quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum
provides the educational foundation for open source processes
and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain
Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display
their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source
license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and
efficient for participants of the software supply chain.
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