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Our second meeting of the Specification and Education Work Groups was a Europe and Asia call.

Check out the Meeting Slides:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Meeting-Minutes/tree/main/Slides/2025

Watch the Recording:

Specification Work Group:

We covered:

1. The end of the comment period for proposed updates to ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 (2024-06-19 ~ Ending 2024-12-19) [1]
2. What happens next in the three-month Freeze Period [2]
3. What to expect from the Steering Committee meeting to review the Specification Drafts on 2025-02-03 adjacent to the Q1 2025 Governing Board Meeting in Brussels
4. What is happening with the separate ISO/IEC 5230 periodic review at ISO as it reaches five years of age, and what to expect next

[1] https://hubs.la/Q031H2V_0
[2] https://hubs.la/Q031H12h0

Education Work Group:

We covered:

1. What happens next with the OpenChain Explainer Series – Documents (Release) and Videos (Beta) [3]
2. The status of the Capability Model and what to expect next [4]
3. A proposal to consider where we can go with online training for ISO/IEC 5230 (LFC 193 and LFC 194 refresh with LF Training?) and ISO/IEC 18974 (New LFC courses with LF Training?)

[3] https://hubs.la/Q031H0dQ0 (YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/5n7bja9d)
[4] https://tinyurl.com/358s8smy

Other Items:

A note on the timing of the call, and sustainability:

This call takes place between 01:30 and 02:30 in Japan to allow North American and European participants to collaborate. However, this makes it difficult for the General Manager to attend. There is a request to action one of two things:

1. Move the meeting to a North America / Asia schedule, complementary with the other OpenChain Monthly Specification and Education Call (Europe / Asia) on 3^rd Wednesdays or
2. A community volunteer to run the meeting on a regular basis

Issue to be discussed further.

Coming Next:

We will be following up on the activities outlined above on the mailing lists, and we will continue our regular series of calls and meetings throughout the year.

Join Our Work:

Everyone is welcome to be part of the Specification Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification/

You can find and be part of all OpenChain calls through our participation page here:
https://openchainproject.org/participate

We held the first monthly workshop for the OpenChain AI Work Group in 2025. It was a two-hour session to allow topics related to AI compliance to be discussed, explored and defined. The key focus for the Work Group is to develop and finalize a Guide to AI Bill of Material Compliance in the Supply Chain, and there is active drafting going on during each meeting.

Full Recording:

The Draft Guide:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1kdmx1bDlQ0feSeW-ZY5JRFAF-HC30a/edit

Track This Work:

You can follow and contribute to the work of the OpenChain AI Work Group through its dedicated mailing list. This is open to everyone regardless of industry vertical or speciality. You will find it here:

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai

Attend Future Meetings:

You can find and get the dial-in details for all future AI Work Group meetings from our participate page here:

• https://www.openchainproject.org/participate

Our first meeting of the Specification and Education Work Groups started with a North America and Europe call.

Check out the Meeting Slides:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Meeting-Minutes/tree/main/Slides/2025

Watch the Recording:

Specification Work Group:

We covered:

1. The end of the comment period for proposed updates to ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 (2024-06-19 ~ Ending 2024-12-19) [1]
2. What happens next in the three-month Freeze Period [2]
3. What to expect from the Steering Committee meeting to review the Specification Drafts on 2025-02-03 adjacent to the Q1 2025 Governing Board Meeting in Brussels
4. What is happening with the separate ISO/IEC 5230 periodic review at ISO as it reaches five years of age, and what to expect next

[1] https://hubs.la/Q031H2V_0
[2] https://hubs.la/Q031H12h0

Education Work Group:

We covered:

1. What happens next with the OpenChain Explainer Series – Documents (Release) and Videos (Beta) [3]
2. The status of the Capability Model and what to expect next [4]
3. A proposal to consider where we can go with online training for ISO/IEC 5230 (LFC 193 and LFC 194 refresh with LF Training?) and ISO/IEC 18974 (New LFC courses with LF Training?)

[3] https://hubs.la/Q031H0dQ0 (YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/5n7bja9d)
[4] https://tinyurl.com/358s8smy

Other Items:

A note on the timing of the call, and sustainability:

This call takes place between 01:30 and 02:30 in Japan to allow North American and European participants to collaborate. However, this makes it difficult for the General Manager to attend. There is a request to action one of two things:

1. Move the meeting to a North America / Asia schedule, complementary with the other OpenChain Monthly Specification and Education Call (Europe / Asia) on 3^rd Wednesdays or
2. A community volunteer to run the meeting on a regular basis

Issue to be discussed further.

Coming Next:

We will be following up on the activities outlined above on the mailing lists, and we will continue our regular series of calls and meetings throughout the year.

Join Our Work:

Everyone is welcome to be part of the Specification Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification/

You can find and be part of all OpenChain calls through our participation page here:
https://openchainproject.org/participate

About The Speech:

Product teams, R&D teams and OSPOs occasionally find themselves in an adversarial situation with IP Departments around open source and how it should be managed in an organization. This is usually due to misunderstandings about how open source provides value and how the risks associated with it can be contained. With open source increasingly necessary for organizations to compete effectively, it is important to ensure all departments understand its strategic importance, and how to manage it in the context of their KPIs and requirements. This talk will explain how to collaborate with IP Departments using the language of external risk containment and internal portfolio management, and help IP Department staff assess open source as part of a diversified IPR strategy.

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About The Speech:

This talk will explain the process of going from a blank page to an ISO standard using OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 as a case study. It will explain how the OpenChain specification team came together, how they created the first iterations of what would become ISO/IEC 5230, and how they collaborated with Joint Development Foundation (JDF) to evolve from de-facto industry standard into formal international standard through the JTC-1 PAS Transposition Process. Attendees will learn how to frame, build and deploy their own specifications and standards, with a particular focus on the practical decisions required: should this be a specification, should it be an ISO standard and what do I need to do to make this happen?

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About The Speech:

This session will present an overview of how OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 for open source license compliance and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974:2023 for open source security assurance will impact legal professionals in 2024. It will cover the key points regarding procurement negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, and supply chain management foreseen in the year ahead. This will be informed by recent developments around the CRA and in adjacent standards like SPDX ISO/IEC 5962. The session will also expand on existing and forthcoming reference material, community support and commercial providers available for when help is needed. We will end with an outline of what may come next for the market, highlighting a new OpenChain Study Group around AI Compliance.

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