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Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 conformant program, making another important step forward for open source governance and management in the global silicon supply chain.

“Achieving OpenChain conformance underscores our belief that open source stewardship is foundational to engineering excellence,” said Rob Oshana, Senior Vice President, Software & Digital Platforms at ADI. “It reinforces our commitment to transparent processes, clear compliance standards and continuous improvement across the software lifecycle.”

“ADI is an excellent steward of open source,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their contributions to the open source community have been notable too, not least their direct engagement with the OpenChain Project as we have developed and deployed standards and reference material related to open source compliance. It is a genuine pleasure to welcome them to our community of conformance, and we look forward to continued collaboration in the future.”

About ADI

ADI is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, energy and data centers, and healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today’s innovators stay Ahead of What’s Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation:

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

The Open Compliance Summit 2025 was a tremendous success, with strong representation from China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, India and more. Over a packed schedule on the 11th and 12th December, attendees shared knowledge, networked and provided an exceptionally strong analysis of what is coming for licensing, security and regulatory compliance in 2026.

This event provided a substantial amount of analysis around OpenChain Project-related activities, ranging from the ISO standards to capability modeling, SBOM quality and AI System Bill of Material management.

The Open Compliance Summit is expected be held again in December 2026, and talk submissions are welcome. Learn more about the event on the official LF website around April 2026: https://events.linuxfoundation.org

This event also marked the last public event of our current General Manager, Shane Coughlan. We had a little ceremony and took some photos.

• Locations
• Topic Streams
• Keynotes
• Program Details
• Sponsors

Registration is required for this free event / kostenlose Veranstaltung, aber Registrierung ist erforderlich

In-person only.  (Please actively select/de-select the topics you plan to attend or not, we will only consider your registration for the actively selected tracks on a first come first serve base. By submitting your registration you confirm to follow the event code of conduct.)

We will hold the second annual OpenChain and Friends event in Stuttgart from the 24th to the 26th of March 2026. (learn about last year’s edition here: https://openchainproject.org/news/2025/02/20/openchain-and-friends-stuttgart )

Main Event Location:

• Robert Bosch GmbH – Service and Supply Chain Campus (SCC) Feuerbach, Bregenzer Str. 26A, 70469 Stuttgart

Satellite Event Locations:

• Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation in Vaihingen, Gropiusplatz 10, 70563 Stuttgart
• Bosch Digital in Ludwigsburg, Groenerstraße 5/1, 71636 Ludwigsburg

In Partnership With:

The FOSS-LÄND Community

Topic Streams:

1. Open Source Compliance and OSPOs  – Open Source Compliance & OSPO – processes, automation, governance & NFRs
2. Cybersecurity – Cybersecurity in the Software Supply Chain – CRA, SBOM requirements, ISO 18974, and good practices
3. Women in Open Source – networking and cross-track contributions
4. Embedded and Open Source Hardware – from chip design to licensing and IP questions
5. Artificial Intelligence – AI Systems Engineering & Data Platforms – methods, tools, open platforms, open AI agents for resilient supply chains
6. Digital Sovereignty and Open Source in Business – public/private collaboration, open source as a competitive factor
7. Education – open trainings, infrastructure, new formats
8. Automotive /SDV – Open Automotive Platform, Ecosystems, Tool Interoperability
9. Cross-Innovation and Innovation Practices – potential of mixing creative industries and digital sovereignty ideas with industrial Open Source
10. Linux OS and beyond – software supply chain from the Linux ecosystem perspective

Contact FOSS@e-mobilbw.de or helpdesk@lists.openchainproject.org for more information. We would love for you to be part of this, and to help contribute to our welcoming community of open source governance professionals. We welcome everyone from small, medium and large companies, local and national government, non-profit organizations, academica and also independent parties curious about what is happening in this space.

Event is listed in https://foss.events/ ;  submitted to https://confs.tech/ and https://dev.events/

A message from the Governing Board of the OpenChain Project:

We wanted to let you know that there will be a rotation in the administrative leadership of the OpenChain Project in Mid-December 2025. Shane Coughlan, our General Manager over the last eight years, will be transitioning to work on a personal venture, and we will shortly be announcing a new executive leader in the same role. In the meantime, the Governing Board, The Linux Foundation project management office, the Work Group Chairs and the Ambassadors will collaborate as usual to continue our normal meetings, releases and community building.

The Governing Board would like to express their gratitude to Shane for all the work he has put into the project over the years, constantly going above and beyond. Shane’s work with the OpenChain Project is nothing short of spectacular, he has been a community builder, role model, and friend to the OpenChain community and he will be missed. The board want to wish him the best of luck in his new endeavors and for him to know that he will forever remain part of the OpenChain family he helped create.

“I have been honored to work on this project, with this board and with everyone in our exceptional community over the last eight and a half years,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “After such a long period, and enjoying so much collective success, it is a difficult decision to move on to a new venture. However, there is a personal project that I want to attend to, and the passage of time has suggested to me that it is appropriate to begin work on that activity. I will speak more to this in early 2026, but for now my focus is on finalizing the transition of the administrative leadership of the OpenChain Project. We have extensive internal process material and a purposefully distributed management system to aide in sustainability and such transitions, and I am fully confident in the health and continued momentum of the project and our activities.

In closing, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has made this journey possible for me. While there are too many people to name individually – such is the scale of our community and accomplishment – I would like to give special thanks to David Marr of Qualcomm for leading the foundation of the OpenChain Project, to Jimmy Ahlberg of Ericsson for leading us through the evolution into a multi-ISO standard project, to Watanabe San, Kobota San, Owada San and Fukuchi San for being instrumental in the development of our work in Japan, to Haksung Jang for leading our work in Korea to such success, to Zhenhua Sun in China for his leadership and driving frequent local meetings, to Oliver Fendt and Marcel Kurzmann in Germany for endlessly encouraging and supporting one of the exceptional local communities in the domain of processes and automation, and finally to the dearly departed Ueda San for providing inspiration in community building that has always helped guide and ensure the success of what we do.

And finally my thanks to you all, who have attended calls, come to meetings and read (and reshared) our news across the world. You made this community, and you made this success. I am grateful to call you my colleagues in open source.”

An administrative note: For those of you interested in learning more about this transition for 2026 – and about the executive leadership role – you can contact Renu from the Project Management office at helpdesk@lists.openchainproject.org