Seth Newberry from the Joint Development Foundation joined us to provide an overview of what they do, how it impacts OpenChain, and what it means for other open source and related projects moving forward. As always we had some great comments and questions, and we look forward to getting more over time via our mailing lists and meetings!
The recording of our regular bi-weekly Specification Work Team is now available. This is where people can provide input on the current version of the standard, suggest new reference material, and also provide suggestions for our future.
You can join the Specification Mailing List to follow all the activity
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held a European/Asian meeting on the 18th of August. This meeting focused on discussions around SPDX and tooling in the automotive sphere. Check out the full recording below.
Everyone is invited to join the Automotive Work Group
OpenChain has been featured in a host of webinars recently. Here is one sent in from our friends at Source Code Control in the UK. Martin joined a team of experts to talk about Application Modernization and how OpenChain fits into the process picture.
This webinar was a live walk-through of the Conformance Questionnaire with example solutions to each question required for OpenChain conformance. It was designed to be immediately useful to any organization considering or undergoing OpenChain conformance.
The OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group meets bi-weekly to discuss open source tools for open source compliance. There are frequent demos and discussions around practical use. This is a good place to engage if you are considering open source tooling for your compliance activities.
This video is intended to give you an example of what our community gets up to in this area.
We are discussing ideas and observations regarding OpenChain 2.0. This maps perfectly to our forthcoming ISO/IEC International Standard, currently under ballot as DIS5230, voting finishes September 23rd.
Some of the comments raised will be addressed through reference material. Some of the comments will feed into discussions for further drafts of the standard.
You can be part of this by joining our bi-weekly calls. We speak at 9am Pacific on the Second Monday and 5pm Pacific on the Fourth Monday of each month. These discussions are Chaired by Mark Gisi, the leader of the Specification Work Team.