This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 12-02-2019.
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SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 29 – The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that Fujitsu, a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, is the latest OpenChain 2.0 Conformant company. This activity is a continuation of Fujitsu’s long-standing commitment to excellent in open source governance and represents one of the larger OpenChain conformant programs. Fujitsu is the first company in Japan and the eighth globally to achieve OpenChain 2.0 conformance.
The OpenChain Project establishes trust in the open source from which software solutions are built. It accomplishes this by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines inflection points in business workflows where a compliance process, policy or training should exist to minimize the potential for errors and maximize the efficiency of bringing solutions to market. The companies involved in the OpenChain community number in the hundreds. The OpenChain Specification is being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from a growing de facto standard into a formal standard.
“Fujitsu has been a long supporter of open source communities and valued open source compliance. OpenChain Conformance demonstrates our commitment to open source compliance”, says Fujiwara Takashi, SVP, Head of Software Business Unit, Fujitsu Limited. “We have worked for the conformance for part of the Software Business Unit together with developers in Software Business Unit, which has more than 1,000 developers, licensing compliance specialists in intellectual property department, and open source specialists in OSS technology department. We will extend OpenChain Conformance throughout the company and strengthen Fujitsu’s open source governance. Now we are transforming our business into a technology consulting and service implementing company with open source technologies. We will keep contributing open source communities”
“Fujitsu has been a pivotal member of the OpenChain Project as we head into formal standardization via the ISO PAS process,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our collaboration has ranged from editorial work on the specification itself through to community building via the OpenChain Japan Work Group. I am delighted to take this next step in our relationship and to mark a milestone in the global roll-out of the OpenChain industry standard.”
About the OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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Media Contacts
Shane Coughlan
+818040358083
coughlan@linux.com
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our latest case study. This time we are exploring how the OpenChain industry standard helps create efficiencies in health tech. You can view the case study online or download it as a PDF. As with all our case studies this release is intended both to highlight the diversity of adopters and to provide practical examples of how companies approach compliance in real world deployment.
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Newsletter – Issue 31 – November 2019
OpenChain Japan Advent Calendar
For the holiday season the OpenChain Japan Work Group will be running new posts about the project and open source compliance in general through 1st to 25th of December.
Big thanks to Watanabe San and Endo San for making this happen!
- See the draft schedule here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/20/openchain-japan-advent-calendar
OpenChain @ ISO Standard
OpenChain Specification – The ISO Draft Review Process Ends 10th December,
- Learn more here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/20/openchain-specification-iso-draft-review-process
OpenChain @ Interviews
The OpenChain Project continues our community interview series with Nicole in Germany. Learn more about her approach to and work in the technology industry here in an interview that is anchored by the OpenChain Project but covers a wide range of IT and gender related topics.
- Read the interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/11/the-openchain-interview-series-continues-with-nicole-in-germany
OpenChain @ Conformance
LG Electronics announces OpenChain Conformance. LGE is the first major Korean company to take this step, cementing their status as a thought leader in the space, and directly building on their active work throughout 2019 in establishing the OpenChain Korea Work Group.
- Find out more:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/19/lg-electronics-announces-openchain-conformance
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that Fujitsu, a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, is the latest OpenChain 2.0 Conformant company. This activity is a continuation of Fujitsu’s long-standing commitment to excellent in open source governance and represents one of the larger OpenChain conformant programs. Fujitsu is the first company in Japan and the eighth globally to achieve OpenChain 2.0 conformance.
- Read more here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2019/11/29/fujitsu-is-the-latest-openchain-2-0-conformant-company
OpenChain @ Translations
We are proud to announce the translation of the overview slide deck for the OpenChain Project in the German language:
The OpenChain Project provides extensive reference material to help companies of all sizes adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. Our mission is to help improve compliance across the global supply chain. As part of this initiative, and thanks to the hard work of our exceptional volunteer community in Japan, the OpenChain Project has released supplier education leaflets in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English and Japanese. Please get your copies below and use them freely. As with all our reference material these are provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain.
OpenChain @ In The News
The OpenChain Project was featured on the OpenUK website. Shane Coughlan wrote about the OpenChain Project and Practical Compliance.
- Read the article here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/15/openchain-featured-on-openuk-uk
OpenChain Project was featured on the FOSSIDB blog tom November 22th. They kindly made space for an informal, detailed dive into the project, what we are doing today, and why.
- Read the story:
https://www.openchainproject.org/uncategorized-en/2019/11/22/the-openchain-interview-fossid-blog
OpenChain @ Events
The OpenChain Project was at many events in November. There we go!
OpenChain @ LF Energy Global Summit in Paris, France on the 4th of November:
OpenChain @ Bird&Bird Automotive Seminar in Berlin on the 5th of November:
OpenChain Workshop adjacent to OSS EU in Lyon
- Presentation from Community: How to Manage OSS Licenses in CI/CD Development:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/20/presentation-from-community-how-to-manage-oss-licenses-in-ci-cd-development
OpenChain @ Asian Legal Network event in Shanghai on the 1st of December:
OpenChain @ OSS EU:
Some of the OpenChain-related talks from Open Source Summit Europe are now available:
- PwC on Third-Party Certification:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/27/pwc-germany-openchain - Fujitsu on compliance in CI/CD:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/20/presentation-from-community-how-to-manage-oss-licenses-in-ci-cd-development
The OpenChain Project will be at CES 2020. This initiative is being lead by the OpenChain Japan Work Group. More news to follow soon!
OpenChain @ Work Groups
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its second meeting adjacent to Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon during October. We had a full house (people had to sit in the corners).
- Check out the agenda slides and two great presentations from Scania and Bosch:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/13/openchain-automotive-work-group-meeting-2-outcomes
The OpenChain Japan Work Group has announced the December Meeting Schedule. The 12th OpenChain Japan Work Group will be held on December 19th at NEC (Suganuma, NEC OSS Promotion Center).
- Find the agenda here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/11/17/openchain-japan-work-group-announces-august-meeting-schedule-2
OpenChain @ Case Studies
The OpenChain Japan Work Group pioneered a series of super quick case studies to help everyone get to know each other. We believe these can be useful for local Work Groups in every location and want to share a template that can be adapted. The content of this template is not editable because it refers to actual company processes, but the idea and layout can be copied freely.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce our latest case study. This time we are exploring how the OpenChain industry standard helps create efficiencies in health tech. You can view the case study online or download it as a PDF. As with all our case studies this release is intended both to highlight the diversity of adopters and to provide practical examples of how companies approach compliance in real world deployment.
The OpenChain Project provides extensive reference material to help companies of all sizes adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. Our mission is to help improve compliance across the global supply chain. As part of this initiative, and thanks to the hard work of our exceptional volunteer community in Japan, the OpenChain Project has released supplier education leaflets in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English and Japanese. Please get your copies below and use them freely. As with all our reference material these are provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain.
Get these guides and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.
On the 29th of October the OpenChain Steering Committee formally convened for a vote on the version of the OpenChain Specification entering the ISO standardization process. It was agreed to proceed with a document functionally identical to the existing OpenChain 2.0 specification, allowing a smooth transition from companies conformant today into conformance with the ISO standard due in 1H 2020.
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During the OpenChain event at Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon we had an exciting presentation from PwC Germany. In a nutshell, this global auditing firm is a recent OpenChain partner, they have solid open source experience and they offer independent compliance assessments. Also, something we will be formally announcing with a case study shortly and continuing our tradition of leaks from the top, they offer global third-party audited certification. That’s a big deal because it marks our second-such deployment after our good friends at TUV SUD.
Check Out Their Slides
As we head into the weekend it is the perfect time to take a moment and review one of the most important documents in our reference library. There are two primary requests in the OpenChain Project regarding reference material. One is for reference training, something we have addressed through our comprehensive curriculum slides since the project formation. The second is for templates to create open source policies for organizations of different sizes and in different markets. Thanks to the tremendous work of Andrew Katz, his team at Moorcrofts, and the team at Orcro, the OpenChain Project has been able to offer a flexible template to address this need for over a year. Our first release focused on version 1.2 of the OpenChain standard. Our second release, formally coming to market very soon (but already in draft form for many months), is designed to explicitly support version 2.0 of the OpenChain standard. This is a critical release, as OpenChain 2.0 is going into the ISO process, and we expect it to spread globally in this form for many years. Please take a moment, take a look at our final release candidate for this document, and let us know what you think.
Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.
OpenChain Project is featured on the FOSSIDB blog today. They kindly made space for an informal, detailed dive into the project, what we are doing today, and why
Read the Story
The OpenChain Project will be represented by Shane Coughlan, General Manager, during an Asian Legal Network event in Shanghai. The Asian Legal Network, sponsored by Open Invention Network, has helped connect people across China, India, Japan and Korea over the last eight years. The OpenChain Project has been present at meetings in recent years to discuss open source compliance, our industry standard, and collaboration across entities of all sizes.
