Vectorverse, a company providing cloud analytics, has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program. They join a growing community of entities in the cloud sector embracing the international standard for open source license compliance.
Newsletter – Issue 59 – October 2023
The OpenChain Newsletter provides a monthly summary of our work. It contains an overview of what we are doing to build trust around license compliance and security in the open source supply chain. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.
Headline News
Outreach
- OpenChain October – A Video Project
- OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #29 (Hybrid #4) – 2023-10-05 @ SocioNext in Kyoto
- OpenChain Open Source Seminar China – 2023-10-16
Webinars
- None this month.
Meetings
Our community held the following meetings:
- OpenChain Monthly Meeting North America and Europe – 2023-10-03
- OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2023-10-03
- OpenChain Automation Work Group – 2023-10-04
- OpenChain Telco Work Group – 2023-10-05
- OpenChain Monthly Meeting North America and Asia – 2023-10-17
Check Out All Our Previous Newsletters:
The OpenChain Japan Work Group recently held a meeting. As usual, it contained some great presentations and discussion. The recording of the meeting is now available below.
(Big thank you to Owada San for preparing the recording!)
We will be shutting down the OpenChain Self Certification Web Application on October 31st 2023. The Web Application has been replaced by the Online Certification Checklist.
If you have an account on the web application and would like to save your responses, you can use the “Download Answers” button on the survey page:
Let us know if you have questions.
We had a super busy call focused on editing update proposals for our core specifications (licensing and security) and editing new proposals for potential future specifications (contribution and SBOM quality). Full recording below.
On OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 (licensing) we closed this issue:
On OpenChain ISO/IEC DIS 18974 (security) we closed this issue:
For harmonization between ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC DIS 18974 we closed this issue:
On the proposal for a contribution specification we addressed this issue:
Check out the slides from the call for all the relevant links:
A special project by the OpenChain UK Work Group
The OpenChain UK Work Group has been busy preparing a series of videos to talk about OpenChain. The videos are being released through November and you can get a sample below.
Amazing work all! Special credit to Martin Yagi for pulling this together.
A Sample of the Videos Hosted on LinkedIn
- Are you ready to dive deep into Open Source License compliance?
- An introduction to OpenChain
- Quiz: The creation and management of a software bill of materials (SBOM)
You can follow the full series at the OpenChain UK LinkedIn page:
Bobble AI has submitted an OpenChain self-certification notification via the OpenChain Website.
Founded by a dynamic duo of brothers, Bobble AI is the world’s first Conversation Media Platform. Bobble.ai is on the mission of enriching everyday conversations by empowering expressions for users with a suite of Keyboard applications.
Welcome to the community of conformance!
OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #29 (Hybrid #4) – 2023-10-05 @ SocioNext in Kyoto
OpenChain Japan 第29回全体会合(第4回ハイブリッド会合)
■日時
2023年10月5日(木) 13:30-17:00 (13:00開場)
★6日(金)は同会場でCo-Located Eventを開催しますので、合わせてご参加を！★
■アジェンダ
【第１部】 ※オンライン配信あり
1. オープニング(キーノート、OpenChain Japanのご紹介)
2. ご講演㈰ 株式会社ソシオネクスト (取り組み紹介) ：大和田さん
3. ご講演㈪ 株式会社村田製作所 (取り組み紹介) ：富田さん
【第２部】 ※オンライン配信なし
4. ライトニングトーク ：島さん、加藤さん
テーマ：SBOM対応どうする？どうしてる？ いま、社内はどんな状態？
5. 連絡事項、クロージング
■場所
株式会社ソシオネクスト 京都オフィス
京都府京都市下京区中堂寺粟田町91 番地 KRP 10 号館
(https://www.socionext.com/jp/about/pdf/kyoto_map_202105.pdf)
■参加方法
参加者のお名前(漢字＆カタカナ)と会社名、連絡用メールアドレス、参加日(5日/6日/両日)を
ソシオネクストの大和田さん宛てにご連絡ください。【10/3(火)17:00締切】
owada.kiyoshi@socionext.com
(本メールCc:に入っています)
■オンライン参加の場合
下記のzoom URLからご参加ください。
https://zoom.us/j/99975267803?pwd=ekhxaHA3bVZUSVU5M0dVMkF2Z0pkQT09
Meeting ID: 99975267803 / パスワード: ]>guXS~6
■10月6日(金)はCo-Located Eventを開催！
次の日も同会場で引き続きイベント満載です！各Sub WG のリアル会合で更にディープな議論に参加しよう！
(初参加の方大歓迎)
9:00 – 12:00 Automation & SBOM Sub WG
13:30 – 15:00 OSPO Sub WG
15:30 – 17:00 FAQ Sub WG
