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Jul 08
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Webinar: Lessons Learned + Future Leaders

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This webinar covered two strategic topics. VM (Vicky) Brasseur opened with a discussion on Lessons Learned over her wide-ranging career in open source and business. Katy Gibson and Robert Grannells then discussed how an initiative in the UK is fostering Future Leaders in our field, a timely topic given recent observations by parties like Linus regarding the challenge of finding new blood to take over old projects.

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VM (Vicky) Brasseur corporate strategist, open source & technical leader, author, speaker Resume Book About Publications Presentations

VM (Vicky) Brasseur is an award-winning free/open source advocate and corporate strategist, international keynote speaker, and writer. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the only book detailing how to contribute to free/open source (FOSS) projects. Aside from articles in various publications, she also writes about FOSS, business, and their intersection on her blog.

Katy Gibson – Associate Commercial IP/IT Solicitor – Bristows LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Katy is an Associate in the Commercial IP/IT Team at Bristows LLP and advises on a variety of matters involving data protection, IT and intellectual property for clients in a range of industries, including those within the Life Sciences and TMT sectors. She trained at Bristows and qualified in 2018.

Robert Grannells – Associate Technology Solicitor – Fieldfisher LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Robert is a technology lawyer experienced in advising a variety of clients of all sectors and sizes, on a variety of issues across software, hardware, infrastructure, networking, open source and web technologies. He has extensive knowledge of the actual technology underpinning what his clients do, want they want to use and how they need it to work to get business done.

Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK

Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open technology being open source software, open hardware and open data”, OpenUK; the Chair of the Open Source and Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs;  European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network;  OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council Member(open source and open standards); Advisory Board Member KDE; Advisory Board Member Beamery and Mentors C Suite individuals. 

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This is OpenChain Webinar #7, released on 2020-07-08.

Jul 01
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CP1 Associates is the Latest OpenChain Conformant Organization

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CP1 Associates is the latest OpenChain Conformant organization. This is a UK-based company with an extensive history in the use of open source.

“CP1 provides consultancy and CIO services to organizations across the UK,” says Chris Puttick, Founder of CP1 Associates. “As with most companies, we make extensive use of open source, and adoption of the OpenChain standard for open source compliance helps both to ensure we have the key requirements for such a program in place and harmonization with the larger global software community.”

“Companies like CP1 Associates are an extremely important part of the OpenChain ecosystem,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of the key tenants of our industry standard is that it is equally applicable and useful to small organizations and multinational conglomerates. As we finalize our ISO publication, functionally identical to the current OpenChain standard, we are seeking to underline this fact in the simplest, most practical way: adoption.”

“It’s great news that CP1 has become part of the OpenChain conformant family,” says Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts. “It shows that OpenChain is flexible enough that the specification can be adopted by smaller companies, and puts CP1 in pole position when it comes to pitching for work from the growing roster of international companies who are seeking OpenChain conformance as a key factor in appointing their suppliers.”

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Jun 27
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OpenChain Newsletter #38

By Monthly Newsletter, News

Newsletter – Issue 38 – June 2020

We have two big announcements leading the news this month.

Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, announced conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain on June 2. As a founding member of the OpenChain Project, Cisco has been instrumental in defining, developing and deploying both the standard and its extensive corpus of reference material. Their conformance marks another milestone in the broadening adoption of the standard throughout silicon, embedded, mobile, telecommunications, enterprise, software and cloud market segments.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/02/cisco-systems-inc-announces-openchain-conformance

Fujitsu

Fujitsu, an OpenChain Platinum Member, is the first organization to attain two OpenChain 2.0 conformant programs. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu personnel support customers in more than 100 countries.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/03/fujitsu-attains-second-openchain-conformant-program

OpenChain @ Webinars #5 & 6:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain UK Work Group is being launched with its first meeting on July 23. The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/30/openchain-uk-work-group-launches-on-july-23rd

OpenChain @ Events (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain Project and its collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation was explored during a session at the ISO WG21 2020 Plenary on the 9th of June. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, lead the primary discussion and Seth Newberry, General Manager of Standards at Joint Development Foundation, explained the JDF PAS approach both in terms of OpenChain and more broadly in the years ahead.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/09/openchain-at-iso-wg21-2020-plenary-9th-june

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Jun 26
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OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group – Next Meeting July 1st 2020 at 6pm CET

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Proposed Agenda

1. News                                                                                         All
2. Github repo                                                                             Oliver
3. Fossology scanning in CI                                                      Gaurav Mishra

If you have any suggestions for the agenda please let Oliver at oliver.fendt@siemens.com know.

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Jun 26
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OpenChain Specification 2.0 in Simplified Chinese – Updated content to improve readability and accuracy

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Our friends from OPPO have updated the OpenChain Specification 2.0 in Simplified Chinese.

This is useful if you want to check out the details of our International standard for open source compliance.

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Jun 22
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Webinar: OpenChain China, Japan, Korea – a discussion on community building

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In this webinar we covered “OpenChain China, Japan, Korea – a discussion on community building” featuring short interviews with Jerry (China), Haksung (Korea) and Fukuchi San (Japan) about local community activity. Our goal was to share knowledge on what has worked, what has not, and how momentum can be kept in these unusual times. We hope these lessons will assist our fellows in Europe and North America while also illustrating some of the key successes in Asia.

This is part of the bi-weekly OpenChain Webinar series. Every two weeks we have international speakers covering a wide range of topics related to practical open source compliance challenges, solutions and considerations.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #6, released on 2020-06-22.

Jun 02
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Webinar: Software Heritage + Making Compliance Scalable in a Container World

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This time we explored Software Heritage, an initiative whose goal is to collect, preserve, and share software code, and continued our discussion of containers from the perspective of scalable compliance.

Our speakers

Roberto Di Cosmo, Director at Software Heritage, explained why this initiative collects and preserves software in source code form with the understanding that software embodies key technical and scientific knowledge that humanity cannot afford to risk losing. His presentation helped provide insight into how such initiatives can link into activities like compliance automation in open source compliance, an area of immediate interest to the OpenChain community.

Scott Peterson, Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat, talked about how we can make compliance scalable in a container world. This talk will build on other recent presentations with a particular focus on efficiency and portability, with a “registry-native” approach to source code availability. Scott explained how this does not require updating container registries to include source code specific features, but instead can exploit features that are already contained in current registries.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #5, released on 2020-06-02.

May 31
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OpenChain Webinar #5: Software Heritage + Making Compliance Scalable in a Container World – Coming June 1st @ 9am Pacific

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The OpenChain Project has launched a series of bi-weekly free webinars that provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events. We hold our fifth meeting on Monday the 1st of June at 9am Pacific with two guest speakers.

This time we are exploring Software Heritage, an initiative whose goal is to collect, preserve, and share software code, and continuing our discussion of containers from the perspective of scalable compliance.

Roberto Di Cosmo, Director at Software Heritage, will explain why this initiative collects and preserves software in source code form with the understanding that software embodies key technical and scientific knowledge that humanity cannot afford to risk losing. This presentation will help provide insight into how such initiatives can link into activities like compliance automation in open source compliance, an area of immediate interest to the OpenChain community.

Scott Peterson, Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat, will talk about how we can make compliance scalable in a container world. This talk will build on other recent presentations with a particular focus on efficiency and portability, with a “registry-native” approach to source code availability. Scott will explain how this does not require updating container registries to include source code specific features, but instead can exploit features that are already contained in current registries.

Each talk will run for 10~15 minutes and there will be plenty of time for questions, comments and suggestions. As with all OpenChain Project activities, our goal is to facilitate knowledge-sharing between peers.

Everyone is invited to join this free webinar via zoom. It will also be recorded and made available later on our website.

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