This talk explored the process of building and deploying the first Linux Foundation ISO standard in fourteen years in collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation. It explained why the evolution from de facto industry standard to formal standardization was important for open source compliance in the context of areas like sale, procurement and M&A. An equal amount of time was spent providing a guide to the journey itself, as the lessons learned are applicable to all projects building out specifications or code that seek worldwide, lasting adoption across multiple industries. The standardization process was framed in the context of timely engagement, with SPDX queued to be the second Joint Development Foundation PAS submission behind OpenChain, and everyone involved ready to support more projects undertaking a similar journey in the months and years ahead. In practical terms, it allows the audience to come away with a clear understanding of how we will take open source and standards to the next level.
WhiteSource will host a webinar at 11:00 BST on March 11th covering the use of Software Component Analysis in the context of OpenChain ISO 5230. Martin Callinan from Source Code Control will also provide perspective from his client engagement.
From the WhiteSource site:
In this webinar, our experts will present how the OpenChain Specification evolved to become an ISO standard, and will discuss the importance of choosing the right SCA tool for organizations to adopt so they can focus on value-added activities that drive the success of their businesses.
Our newsletter contains some of the highlights from the last month of activity in the project. Plenty more happened. Check out the full stream here: https://www.openchainproject.org/news
OpenChain @ Quarterly Survey
The Q1 Survey is live for 2 weeks. This is the key way we collect feedback to help improve our support of ISO 5230 and our broader ecosystem, and should only take 10 minutes to complete.
You can watch OpenChain Webinars #17 & 18 on LFX: Tools to Build and Scale Sustainable Technologies, & Exploring Sustainable Community Management Through FreeDOS, respectively:
Mishi Choudhary & Associates (MCA), the law firm partner of the OpenChain Project in India, along with the OpenChain Project is organizing the MCA OpenChain India Working Group Meetup on 19th February (Friday)2021, from 6:00 pm – 7:20 pm (IST). The meetup will include presentations and talks on issues relating to FOSS, Open Source License Compliance and OpenChain.
This is a great opportunity for all OpenChain and open source professionals, technology companies, and FOSS enthusiasts to come together and discuss various aspects of FOSS Compliance. We are looking forward to having a productive discussion to address the problems which are being faced by the FOSS community in India, and to get a global perspective from leaders in the community.
This is a virtual event which will be hosted on BigBlueButton, an Open Source web conferencing application.
FreeDOS is a 23 year old community project focused on providing a complete DOS-compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems. It has maintained stable development and community management throughout its multi-decade life. In this webinar Jim Hall explores how this type of consistency was possible and how it can apply to other projects.
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Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate. His first contribution to open source was in 1993, with a patch to GNU Emacs. Since then, Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects. In addition to writing open source software, Jim also works with usability testing in open source software.
Major projects include: FreeDOS and GNOME
Jim is a featured speaker on IT Leadership and Technology Innovation at conferences including Government IT Symposium, SINC Midwest IT Forum, International Institute of Business Analysis, Premier CIO Forum, Minnesota e-Learning Summit, CIC CIO TechForum, and UBTech.
Jim is a published author on IT Leadership, and is the author of Coaching Buttons, a collection of essays about leadership and vision in information technology: how to be a leader, how to lead through change, how to do strategic planning. Jim has also contributed chapters to several other books on Open Organizations and IT Leadership, including The Open Organization Leaders Manual (2nd Edition), The Open Organization Workbook, and Cultivating Change in the Academy. He is currently writing his next book, about programming, due in Fall 2021.
Jim contributes feature articles about Open Source Software and IT Leadership in magazines and journals including Government CIO Outlook, CIO Review, University Business, OpenSource, Linux Journal, and The Open Organization book series. Jim has also been interviewed and cited as an expert on IT Leadership and Technology Innovation for publications including The Forecast by Nutanix, Government CIO Outlook, University Business Magazine, and MinnPost. Jim has a master’s degree in Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
LFX is a toolkit from The Linux Foundation built to facilitate every aspect of open source development. Get a full overview of project analytic tools, IP risk containment, security and Crowdfunding. This webinar helps to unpack what that means for you.
Heads Up
The crowdfunding was previously a separate project called CommunityBridge.