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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of a new slide deck that includes a reference script in the speaker notes. This slide deck can help anyone explain the OpenChain Project to audiences inside companies or at events.

Go forth and spread the word!

Learn More:

• The presentation on GitHub
• The presentation in PPTX format
• The presentation in ODP format
• The presentation in PDF format

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of a video presentation explaining the free online process for self-certification to the OpenChain Specification. This presentation is suitable for companies of all sizes that want to engage with and adopt the OpenChain Specification.

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of an overview video presentation. This presentation explains the challenges the project solves and how companies of all sizes can frame their engagement. It also shows how the “stack” of open source compliance solutions work together to solve challenges quickly and efficiently.

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we now have a draft of the OpenChain Specification 1.2 in Russian. This document was contributed by Denis Dorotenko at Yandex and it marks our first major activity to support the Russian market.

The OpenChain Project asks for all official translations of the OpenChain Specification to be peer-reviewed. To this end, today we are putting out a call for reviewers so we can change the status of our Russian document from “draft” to “release.”

Please note that this document – as with most of our documents – is stored and edited via GitHub. If you want to contribute to the translation but have no background in GitHub just contact us. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, is happy to talk via email at coughlan [at] linux.com

More Details

• The Draft of OpenChain Specification 1.2 in Russian
• The OpenChain Specification web page

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we now have a draft of the OpenChain Specification 1.2 in Hindi. This document was contributed by Shuvajit Mitra at Infosys and it marks our first major activity to support the Indian market.

The OpenChain Project asks for all official translations of the OpenChain Specification to be peer-reviewed. To this end, today we are putting out a call for reviewers so we can change the status of our Hindi document from “draft” to “release.”

Please note that this document – as with most of our documents – is stored and edited via GitHub. If you want to contribute to the translation but have no background in GitHub just contact us. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, is happy to talk via email at coughlan [at] linux.com

More Details

• The Draft of OpenChain Specification 1.2 in Hindi
• The OpenChain Specification web page

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project will host a social event adjacent to Open Source Summit North America. It takes place after our official workshop and will be held at the Mosaic Grille in the Hyatt Regency on the August 28th at 6:00 p.m.

This social event is limited to 20 attendees (10 already confirmed) so please reach out with an RSVP to coughlan [at] linux.com if you would like to attend.

More Details:

• The OpenChain Workshop

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce we will host an open source license compliance workshop adjacent to Open Source Summit. The workshop will feature new compliance reference material, new training material and new case studies. We will have interactive panels and plenty of networking to ensure an excellent opportunity to get the latest and most useful information about compliance. The workshop is open to everyone and is free of charge.

Date: Tuesday, August 28
Time: 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Room 205, Vancouver Convention Centre West
Registration Costs: Complimentary; Pre-registration required

Full Schedule:
13:00 – Welcome and Status Update
13:10 – Work Team – Conformance
13:30 – Forward Planning – Strategy and Tactics
14:00 – Networking Break
14:30 – Adjacent Project Status Overviews
– SPDX
– FOSSology
– Clearly Defined
15:00 – Work Team – Specification
15:50 – Networking Break
16:20 – Work Team – Curriculum
16:40 – Work Team – Onboarding
17:00 – Close

Learn More:

• Open Source Summit North America
• Co-Located Events

To Register:

• Please send an email to coughlan@linux.com

Compliance – Beginner Overview: 9th August, 13:30-16:30

Location:
MOXA Facility

Address:
Room A401, Fl. 4, No. 135, Lane 235, Baoqiao Rd. Xindian Dist., New Taipei City, 23145 Taiwan, R.O.C
Tel: +886-2-8919-1230 ext. 1945

Learn More:

• OpenChain Project Announcement: https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/07/12/openchain-announces-workshop-in-taipei

The OpenChain Project took center stage at the FOSS4G-Europe Conference with a keynote by Malcolm Bain of ID Law Partners, an OpenChain Partner Organization.

This event brings the European FOSS4G community together in face to face meetings and discussions to foster deeper interaction and to share knowledge. The 2018 edition of the conference was organized by Portugal OSGeo Chapter on behalf of the Europe OSGeo Chapter.

Learn More

• FOSS4G-Europe website
• ID Law Partners website

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a legal track at the upcoming COSCUP event in Taipei, Taiwan. This event will start at 9:30 in the COSCUP Conference Room IB503 on the 12th August. As always our goal is to build bridges, share knowledge, and lay the foundation for increased trust in software supply chains.

Schedule

An introduction from our hosts

Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏, Shane Coughlan)

Open Source Licensing makes a Difference / 開源授權就是不一樣

Florence T.M. Ko 葛冬梅

Software Supply Chain and OSS

Satoru Ueda

Understand and perform the FOSS compliance in a community-driven way / 採社群思維模式做好開源合規

Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏

From OpenChain to FOSSology – Compliance in 2018

Shane Coughlan

Break

Introduction of OpenChain Japan WG

Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Shinsuke Kato

OIN Linux系統專利合作計畫

Kevin Huang 黃鴻文

Break

Panel: Different perspectives around compliance

Hosted by Shane Coughlan
Featuring:

• Hiroyuki Fukuchi
• Shinsuke Kato
• Florence T.M. Ko 葛冬梅
• Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏
• Satoru Ueda
• Kevin Huang 黃鴻文

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