News

The OpenChain Legal Work Group is exploring model provisions for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 or ISO/IEC DIS 18974 in procurement contracts and similar material. We decided to proceed via mirroring the format of the pre-existing public domain Risk Grid:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/General-Compliance-Support-Material/Risk-Grid

Our Current Draft Language Is Hosted On GitHub

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/Adoption-Preparation/Model-Provisions

Here Is The Recording Of Our Latest Meeting

Check Out The Slides

The Next Meeting Will Take Place In July

Currently scheduled for July 27th at 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST / 00:00 CST / 01:00 KST + JST

Keep Up-To-Date

Join our mailing list to track our work and contribute to the development of the model provisions:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/legal-wg

Reminder:

The goal is to ensure people can understand options. We will not be prescriptive and these model provisions will remain part of the OpenChain reference material. They will not be included in the standards themselves.

Introduction: The OpenChain License Compliance and Security Assurance Standards in 2023

Special Keynote: FOSSLight – Next Generation Open Source Automation for Compliance and Security

Keynote Moving Down The Pyramid – “State of the Tooling” in Open Source Automation

Closing

The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its half-year assessment meeting to discuss future market strategy on the 14th of June 2023. We had excellent presentations from OSS Consultants, Volvo Cars and Hyundai Motor Corporation. A big thank you Endo San from Toyota, our chair, for organizing this event.

Our Agenda

1. Complexities of Managing Open Source in Automotive – Russ Eling,
   Founder at OSS Consultants
2. Lessons learnt in Industry – Christopher Wood, Fellow at Lockheed Martin
3. Volvo Cars’ OSPO – Mary Wang, Director of Open Source Ecosystem at
   Volvo Cars
4. Hyundai Motor Group Open Source Compliance – SongHa Back at Hyundai
   Motors IP team 2

The Full Recording

Check out the recording of our latest monthly meeting for North America / Asia. As always, we are working on the next generation of the license compliance and security assurance standards.

What We Did On The Call

We focused on the Security Specification:

• Align “Terms and Definitions” in Section 2 with Licensing Spec 3.0:
  https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/30
• Adjust SBOM definition to align with Licensing Spec 3.0:
  https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/31

Our outcome was (a) alignment with Licensing Spec 3.0 but (b) several suggestions for improvement.

OpenChain was invited to talk about our process management standards and relevance to SBOM at an O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG) meeting. Check out our speech below by Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager.

About O-RAN ALLIANCE

O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions with the mission to re-shape Radio Access Networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable.

About nGRG

The next Generation Research Group (nGRG) is a research task force founded by the O-RAN ALLIANCE in June 2022.

Formed by members from major mobile operators, vendors from telecom, IT and DT industries, and well-known research institutes and universities around the world, nGRG takes the mission to leverage industry and academic 6G research efforts and determine how O-RAN will evolve to support 6G and beyond, considering regional research efforts, ITU-R, and 3GPP development.

nGRG defines O-RAN ALLIANCE’s 6G research agenda and key priorities, with the focuses to achieve O-RAN sustainability from 4G/5G to 6G and beyond and unify the 6G technology path to avoid incompatibility with other SDOs.

Through nGRG’s white papers, it will recommend appropriate actions to the development of next generation O-RAN.

The next OpenChain Japan Work Group meeting will take place on the 11th of July from 13:30 at the Ridgelinez TRANSFORMATION BASE CAMP (X Design Studio). As always, everyone is welcome. Also as always, most of the meeting will be in Japanese. However, non-speakers can attend for the keynote and can ask questions, or just network.

Attend in Person:
Ridgelinez TRANSFORMATION BASE CAMP (X Design Studio)
https://www.ridgelinez.com/about/transformation_base_camp.php

Dial-in via Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/99975267803?pwd=ekhxaHA3bVZUSVU5M0dVMkF2Z0pkQT09
Meeting ID: 99975267803 / パスワード: ]>guXS~6

OpenChain Japan 第28回全体会合(第3回ハイブリッド会合)開催の正式お知らせです。
今回は、ビジネスの中でコミュニティ活動を実施している特別ゲストのご講演や
ブレイクアウトセッションを通じた双方向のコミュニケーションなど、
ここでしか聞けない話満載の参加型イベントとして開催します。
交通の便が良く(JR東京駅から徒歩5分)、広い会場をご用意いただけましたので、
今回はぜひ現地での参加をご検討いただければ嬉しいです。

添付にて、上司に出張許可を貰う際に活用いただけるリーフレットをご用意しました。
また、皆さんのお近くで、興味のありそうな方にも拡散いただけると助かります。

■日時
2023年7月11日(火)　13:30-17:00 (13:00開場)

■アジェンダ
【第１部】
　1. オープニング
　2. OpenChain Japanのご紹介
　3. OSSコミュニティ活動とOpenSSFの紹介 (日立製作所　中村さん) 
　4. 教育サブグループの新教育教材について (教育サブグループ)
　5. 富士通でのOSS LICENSEスキルの人材育成 (富士通　大内さん)
【第２部】
　6. ブレイクアウトセッション(テーマごとに少人数のチームで情報共有や議論をおこないます)
　テーマ例(予定)
　　　・FAQサブグループのディスカッション体験
　　　・OSPOに必要なものとは？OSPOを立ち上げるには？
　　　・OSSでリーダーシップをとる方法
　　　・ITmedia連載の新連載のトピックス検討
　　　・SPDX 3.0を知ろう
　　　・OSSコントリビューションについて有識者に質問してみよう
　　　・OSS Summit NAに行ってきました報告
　　　・企業におけるOSSコンプライアンスのための教育資料を考える
【第３部】
　7. ブレイクアウトセッションの共有(各チームから)
　8. クロージング

■場所
Ridgelinez TRANSFORMATION BASE CAMP(X Design Studio)
東京都千代田区丸の内二丁目6番1号 丸の内パークビルディング22F
(https://www.ridgelinez.com/about/transformation_base_camp.php)

■参加方法
参加者のお名前(漢字＆カタカナ)と会社名を富士通の大崎さん、浅羽さん宛てにご連絡ください。【7/10(月)15:00締切】
t-osaki@jp.fujitsu.com
teppeiasaba@fujitsu.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