The OpenChain Project now has official merchandise! You will find everything from t-shirts to tote-bags to phone cases to mugs in our store. Everything is priced at cost with Threadless. Logos, penguins, country teams and a special global team image. It is all there.
We have a marketing budget for our country and international teams. Right there is $25 USD of merchandise per head for 400 people (including shipping). This is a thank you for everyone who helped make OpenChain what it is. Here is the allocation of the award funds based on the subscriber numbers to various country and global lists:
Please contact Rachel (operations@openchainproject.org) and let her know what you want. She will assemble a spreadsheet to track everything and we will order as each batch fills up.
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.
