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.
This is OpenChain Webinar #14, released on 2020-11-20.
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.
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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.
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One Tap Telephone (no screensharing)
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abeUqy3kYQ
After dialing the local number enter 9990120120#
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The Japan Planning Sub-Work Group will host a virtual meeting on the 16th of December. The topic of the next meeting is ‘OSS training for software engineers based on the OpenChain specification.’ Our presenter is Iwata San from Hitachi.
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Planning SGでは、Japan WG次回オンライン全体会合を
2020年12月16日(水) 14:00-15:30
で企画中です。
次回会合のトピックですが、教育Subgroupで作成した
資料を基に、「SW開発者向けのOSSトレーニング」
を企画しています。
教育SGリーダーの岩田さんに講師をお願いしています。
資料は以下にあります：
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
詳細が決まりましたら、改めてご連絡いたします。
どなたでも参加できますので、予定の確保をお願いします。
The OpenChain Korea Work Group will hold its 8th meeting on December 2nd. The event will run from 14:00 to 16:00 Korea time. Everybody is welcome to join. Dial in details below.
Agenda
| No | Agenda | Speaker | Slide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenChain Update | Shane Coughlan, Linux Foundation | – |
| 2 | 현대자동차 오픈소스 거버넌스 체계 구축 | 현대자동차 백송하 | – |
| 3 | SCA(Software Composition Analysis) Market 동향 | 카카오 황민호(Robin) | – |
| 4 | Olive 전격 공개 | 카카오 황민호(Robin) | – |
| 5 | Case Study | All | – |
| 5 | OpenChain KWG Update | SK텔레콤 장학성 | – |
| 6 | Free Discussion | All | – |
Case Study
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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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2020-11-06.
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.
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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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ITAM Channel, part of the ITAMOrg international membership organization for ITAM Professionals, is hosting a webinar covering OpenChain on the 12th of November.
In this webinar you will hear about how open source is used in the supply chain, the risks associated with open source and strategies to manage this. We will also discuss the latest standards such as the new ISO standard being published from the OpenChain Project with support from many of the larger vendors incl. Arm, Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm.
Event speakers are Martin Callinan of Source Code Control and Shane Coughlan, General Manager at OpenChain
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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.
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