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Dec 09

OpenChain and Friends 2026 – Stuttgart – March 24~26

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Register Here / Hier Registrieren

Registration is required for this free event / kostenlose Veranstaltung, aber Registrierung ist erforderlich

In-person only.  (Please actively select/de-select the topics you plan to attend or not, we will only consider your registration for the actively selected tracks on a first come first serve base. By submitting your registration you confirm to follow the event code of conduct.)

We will hold the second annual OpenChain and Friends event in Stuttgart from the 24th to the 26th of March 2026. (learn about last year’s edition here: https://openchainproject.org/news/2025/02/20/openchain-and-friends-stuttgart )

Main Event Location:

Satellite Event Locations:

In Partnership With:

The FOSS-LÄND Community

Topic Streams:

  1. Open Source Compliance and OSPOs  – Open Source Compliance & OSPO – processes, automation, governance & NFRs
  2. Cybersecurity – Cybersecurity in the Software Supply Chain – CRA, SBOM requirements, ISO 18974, and good practices
  3. Women in Open Source – networking and cross-track contributions
  4. Embedded and Open Source Hardware – from chip design to licensing and IP questions
  5. Artificial Intelligence – AI Systems Engineering & Data Platforms – methods, tools, open platforms, open AI agents for resilient supply chains
  6. Digital Sovereignty and Open Source in Business – public/private collaboration, open source as a competitive factor
  7. Education – open trainings, infrastructure, new formats
  8. Automotive /SDV – Open Automotive Platform, Ecosystems, Tool Interoperability
  9. Cross-Innovation and Innovation Practices

KEYNOTES

Bjoern Schiessle Nextcloud

“Digital sovereignty isn’t about choosing your dependencies — it’s about eliminating them.”

– Björn Schiessle,  Co-founder and Director of Sales Engineering at Nextcloud

 

Charley Mann & Florian Wohlrab OpenHW Foundation

“The Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform is absolutely critical to supporting technological sovereignty in Europe, and the OpenHW Foundation is committed to developing it into a sustainable, interoperable, and community driven resource for the wider RISC-V ecosystem. Open source collaboration is essential to ensuring a competitive playing field, and by working together, we will be able to go further, faster.”

– Florian Wohlrab, CEO, OpenHW Foundation

  Program details and schedule are collaboratively developed and can be tracked in our repository: OpenChain and Friends Program 2026.

SPONSORS

DIAMOND

BRONZE

Contact FOSS@e-mobilbw.de or helpdesk@lists.openchainproject.org for more information. We would love for you to be part of this, and to help contribute to our welcoming community of open source governance professionals. We welcome everyone from small, medium and large companies, local and national government, non-profit organizations, academica and also independent parties curious about what is happening in this space.

Dec 07

OpenChain @ COSCON 2025 on 2025-12-06

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The OpenChain Project had a Mini-Summit as COSCON 2025 in China on the 6th of December 2025. We were hosted by the local open source community in Beijing, and our OpenChain China Work Group Chair – Zhenhua Sun of ByteDance – lead discussion around licensing, security and regulatory compliance topics.

View the Keynote Slides:

Dec 04

Webinar – A Panel on Generative AI Risks and Management

By ai, legal, licensing, News, Webinar

OpenChain hosted a panel featuring experts from Bitsea, Jun Legal, FossID and SCANOSS discuss their experience and opinions on the topic of managing Generative AI in corporate environments. This discussion featured both structured commentary and plenty of opportunity for the audience to engage and ask questions.

Watch the Webinar:

More About Our Webinars:

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.

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This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-12-04.

Dec 04

COMING SOON: Webinar – A Panel on Generative AI Risks and Management – 2025-12-04 @ 08:00 UTC / 09:00 CET / 16:00 CST / 17:00 KST + JST

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OpenChain is hosting a panel featuring experts from Bitsea, Jun Legal, FossID and SCANOSS discuss their experience and opinions on the topic of managing Generative AI in corporate environments. This discussion will feature both structured commentary and plenty of opportunity for the audience to engage and ask questions.

Join here 2025-12-04 @ 08:00 UTC / 09:00 CET / 16:00 CST / 17:00 KST + JST:

Dec 01

RECORDING: OpenChain Meridian 22 Work Group Meeting – 2025-12-01

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The OpenChain Meridian 22 Work Group held its second meeting in early December with a focus on planning next steps for the region. Given the geographic scope, crossing over many cultures and languages, there was plenty to talk about. Open Source Summit Europe in Prague during 2026 was a key point of focus.

Watch the Recording:

Nov 29

Webinar – Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it

By community, licensing, News, standards, Webinar

The Software Hash Identifier (SWHID) is an intrinsic identifier for software source code and artifacts that became an international standard in April 2025 (ISO/IEC 18670:2025).

In this talk, Thomas Aynaud presented the Software Heritage mission and data model, introduced the concept of intrinsic identifiers, explained the SWHID specification, and presented its open standard governance model. He shared how open source projects and companies can adopt and benefit from SWHID through real-world use cases, and concluded with a summary of the key advantages of SWHID and an update on Software Heritage’s plans to support its development and adoption in the coming months.

Watch the Webinar:

More About Our Webinars:

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.

Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars:

This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-11-27.

Nov 28

A Message from the Governing Board of the OpenChain Project

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A message from the Governing Board of the OpenChain Project:

We wanted to let you know that there will be a rotation in the administrative leadership of the OpenChain Project in Mid-December 2025. Shane Coughlan, our General Manager over the last eight years, will be transitioning to work on a personal venture, and we will shortly be announcing a new executive leader in the same role. In the meantime, the Governing Board, The Linux Foundation project management office, the Work Group Chairs and the Ambassadors will collaborate as usual to continue our normal meetings, releases and community building.

The Governing Board would like to express their gratitude to Shane for all the work he has put into the project over the years, constantly going above and beyond. Shane’s work with the OpenChain Project is nothing short of spectacular, he has been a community builder, role model, and friend to the OpenChain community and he will be missed. The board want to wish him the best of luck in his new endeavors and for him to know that he will forever remain part of the OpenChain family he helped create.

“I have been honored to work on this project, with this board and with everyone in our exceptional community over the last eight and a half years,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “After such a long period, and enjoying so much collective success, it is a difficult decision to move on to a new venture. However, there is a personal project that I want to attend to, and the passage of time has suggested to me that it is appropriate to begin work on that activity. I will speak more to this in early 2026, but for now my focus is on finalizing the transition of the administrative leadership of the OpenChain Project. We have extensive internal process material and a purposefully distributed management system to aide in sustainability and such transitions, and I am fully confident in the health and continued momentum of the project and our activities.

In closing, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has made this journey possible for me. While there are too many people to name individually – such is the scale of our community and accomplishment – I would like to give special thanks to David Marr of Qualcomm for leading the foundation of the OpenChain Project, to Jimmy Ahlberg of Ericsson for leading us through the evolution into a multi-ISO standard project, to Watanabe San, Kobota San, Owada San and Fukuchi San for being instrumental in the development of our work in Japan, to Haksung Jang for leading our work in Korea to such success, to Zhenhua Sun in China for his leadership and driving frequent local meetings, to Oliver Fendt and Marcel Kurzmann in Germany for endlessly encouraging and supporting one of the exceptional local communities in the domain of processes and automation, and finally to the dearly departed Ueda San for providing inspiration in community building that has always helped guide and ensure the success of what we do.

And finally my thanks to you all, who have attended calls, come to meetings and read (and reshared) our news across the world. You made this community, and you made this success. I am grateful to call you my colleagues in open source.”

An administrative note: For those of you interested in learning more about this transition for 2026 – and about the executive leadership role – you can contact Renu from the Project Management office at helpdesk@lists.openchainproject.org

Nov 28

Webinar – OIN: A Conversation About the Journey So Far and Preview of OIN 2.0

By community, legal, News, Webinar

OpenChain hosted an open discussion between Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN and Shane Coughlan, GM of OpenChain to unpack the evolution of patent non-aggression in the open source ecosystem, and explore what is coming next for existing and potential new licensees of the OIN System Definition.

This is a key webinar for those interested in addressing patent risk and containment strategy, and is recommended for legal, project management and executive teams.

Watch the Webinar:

More About Our Webinars:

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.

Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars:

This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-11-26.

Nov 28

Sun Square Becomes an Official OpenChain Partner

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Taipei, Taiwan — Sun Square has been officially recognized as both an OpenChain Service Provider and a Third-Party Certifier. This dual status enables the company to support global organizations in adopting ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974, improving open source governance and software supply chain security.

This dual recognition enables Sun Square to support organizations adopting ISO/IEC 5230 (Open Source License Compliance) and ISO/IEC 18974 (Open Source Security Assurance), helping them build transparent and secure software-supply-chain governance.

The OpenChain Project, led by the Linux Foundation, establishes global standards for open source software supply chains. Its core specification, ISO/IEC 5230, defines best practices for license compliance, while ISO/IEC 18974 extends those principles to vulnerability management and security control.

As both a Service Provider and a Third-Party Certifier, Sun Square bridges advisory guidance with independent assessment. This combined capability allows enterprises to develop robust processes and obtain formal certification demonstrating their commitment to international standards.

“Becoming an OpenChain Partner reflects Sun Square’s long-term commitment to open collaboration and secure software supply chains,” said SZ Lin (林上智), Chief Cybersecurity Advisor at Sun Square. “By combining our OT cybersecurity and open source compliance expertise with OpenChain’s global framework, we aim to enable organizations to strengthen governance and resilience throughout the software lifecycle.”

Sun Square offers integrated services that include OT cybersecurity training and advisory based on the ISA/IEC 62443 standard, open source compliance and security governance for ISO/IEC 5230 and 18974 implementation, and software lifecycle security management covering SBOM development and vulnerability remediation.

By combining international standards with local implementation expertise, Sun Square continues to promote trusted and sustainable open source and cybersecurity practices in Taiwan and across the Asia-Pacific region.

About Sun Square

Sun Square Co., Ltd., headquartered in Taiwan and serving clients worldwide, provides cybersecurity and open source advisory services that help organizations align with international standards and regulations. The company specializes in OT security training, open source compliance, and software supply chain assurance, delivering consulting, training, and certification support aligned with ISO/IEC 5230, ISO/IEC 18974, and other global standards.

Learn more: https://sunsquare.tech

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation:

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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