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The recordings from the recent Korea Work Group Meeting #14 are now available on their local website. Check them out here:

• https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/meeting/14th/

You will find material covering the global project activities, local activities, SFC vs Vizio analysis and an overview from FOSSID.

You can subscribe to the Korea Work Group mailing list here and keep up with all their activities:

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/korea-wg

The OpenChain Project is delighted to collaborate with our sister project, TODO Group, around OSPOCon at Open Source Summit Europe. OSPOCon is where those working in open source program offices in organizations that rely on open source technologies come together to learn and share best practices, experiences and tooling to overcome challenges they face.

Open Source Summit Europe takes place between September 13th and 16th in Dublin, Ireland.

Learn More:

• https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/about/ospocon/

The OpenChain Korea Work Group is meeting today. You will find the dial-in details and the agenda below. The meeting will be held in Korean and all are welcome to attend.

안녕하세요, OpenChain Korea Work Group 멤버 여러분! 장학성입니다. 

다음주 화요일 오후 2시에 2분기 정기 미팅이 예정되어 있습니다. : 
https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/meeting/14th/

*일시

-2022. 6. 21 (화) 오후2시~

-장소 : Zoom – https://line.zoom.us/j/99864787993?pwd=UnVtMEl3L3BHZVM0STdGRlN6cG5Mdz09

pw: 123123

(회의 공간을 제공해주신 라인플러스 이서연님께 감사합니다. ^^ )

*Agenda

1 OpenChain Global Update        Shane Coughlan, Linux Foundation –

2 OpenChain KWG Update          장학성, SK텔레콤 –

3 SFC vs. Vizio, GPL 소송 판결 겉핥기        장학성, SK텔레콤 Link

4 소그룹 모임 (Case Study)          All        –

Dirk Riehle will deliver our 43rd webinar as we explore Inner Source and the OSPO. He will introduce inner source, its significance for the open source program office, and how to quantify and solve the problem of intellectual property value flows inside companies.

Join us at 06:00 UTC on the 14th of June right here:
https://zoom.us/j/4377592799

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Meeting ID: 437 759 2799

Learn More About Our Speaker

• https://dirkriehle.com/about/

The OpenChain Project is committed to helping companies around the world experience a trusted supply chain. As part of this, our community develops and releases a ton of reference material to provide context, examples and training.

In our latest training course you can learn how open source compliance management systems should be structured and implemented to be most effective. Take the course for free over at LF Training and get a badge to mark your completion.

• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/implementing-open-source-license-compliance-management-lfc194/

Did You Know?

This is our second training course. You can obtain more foundational knowledge for free right here:

• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-open-source-license-compliance-management-lfc193/

Ahead of the results of the main OpenChain Industry Survey 2022, we wanted to share the results of an earlier survey we held at the OpenChain IP Summit. We have twelve responses (around 22% of the audience).

These results include some interesting insights into company focus and evolution SBOM, OSPO/SCA collaboration, and the use of tooling.

Check the results out below.

Main interest:
33% Copyright
0% Patents
67% Copyright and Patents

Was this event directly relevant to your work?
100% Yes

Is tooling (automaton) something critical to your work?
92% Yes
8% No

Is the use of SBOM a reality for your supply chain today?
67% Yes
17% No
17% Partially

Does your OSPO collaborate closely with your SCA team?
67% Yes
0% No
25% Not Applicable

Do you collaborate with other companies to share SCA, SBOM or tooling approaches?
25% Yes
33% No
42% To a limited extent

SECTREND, a Chinese company providing SCA services, is the latest company to join the OpenChain Partner community. As a leading vendor inside the Chinese market, their engagement marks another important step in ensuring freedom of choice around tooling for license compliance, security and other matters.

“We are thrilled to join the OpenChain with other participating members around the globe in the open source landscape,” says Alex Xue, Founder & CEO, SECTREND. “Since 2016, OpenChain has been innate to provide companies of all sizes in all markets a trusted and consistently compliant open source supply chain. SECTREND, together with OpenChain, will provide the open source community with plethora of contributions pertaining to tooling, training, research, best practices and consulting. The collaborative DNA of open source community and the OpenChain project will enable us to leverage the best-in-class resources from peers in all industries. We believe that such engagement and involvement will make the software supply chain more secure and reliable.”

“China is the largest single market in the world in terms of population, and the single most important part of the global supply chain,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “SECTREND represents the evolution of local leadership around open source. Adjacent to shipping products there is the need to continually refine processes in their support. SCA has been an essential part of this at the opening of our decade and it will remain pivotal in the years ahead.”

Learn More About SECTREND

• https://www.sectrend.com.cn/