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SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 29, 2020 – Today the OpenChain Project welcomes Inno3 as our latest conformant organization. Inno3 is an open, independent innovation consultancy specializing in Open Data and Open Source. They have been a leading service provider in France since 2001.
The OpenChain standard 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 standard is being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from de facto into a formal standard in 2020.
“In today’s compliance landscape, OpenChain is a key standard, that stands on the shoulders of other open standards like SPDX,” says Camille Moulin, Senior Consultant at Inno3. “It sets a proven framework that we use both internally and with our clients, providing at the same time strong focus points and enough flexibility to adapt to each specific business context. It’s a transparent, global open project, thriving with local communities, and we’re very enthusiastic about relaying this dynamic in France.”
“Inno3 is a company with a long history of effective engagement with open source,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their announcement of OpenChain Conformance today underlines not only their commitment to excellence with regards their product-offerings and customers, but also marks a milestone of increased OpenChain presence and influence in France. I am looking forward to collaborating with Camille and his team on next steps.”
About Inno3
Inno³ is an expert independent consulting firm specializing in Open Innovation, Open Data and Open Source fields. From code auditing to the evaluation (appraisal) of valuation policies, our competencies extend from intellectual property management to the transformation of organisation and the creation of dynamic ecosystems.
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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Roxane Maurel
+331 83 64 09 89
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https://inno3.fr
Newsletter – Issue 33 – January 2020
A message from Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager:
During the outbreak of COVID-19 we have faced unprecedented challenges in the global supply chain. While these challenges are expected to carry through into Q2 our community is making every effort to ensure our strategy is executed effectively. Great thanks are due to everyone making this happen. Stay safe all.
OpenChain @ In The News
A recent interview about OpenChain from FOSSID has been translated into Japanese. This is a great onboarding point for Japanese-speaking individuals and companies interested in learning more about our work. You can check it out here:
OpenChain @ Interviews
In January we also continued our interview series. We are delighted to announce the release of interviews with Samantha from Cisco, Chloe from Huawai and Indira Bhatt from Facebook.
Read Samantha’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/01/05/the-openchain-interviews-samantha-from-cisco
Read Chloe’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/01/15/the-openchain-interviews-chloe-from-huawei
And you can read Indira’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-9
OpenChain @ Conformance
Inno3 is the Latest OpenChain Conformant Organization. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Partners
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome Lyra Infosystems as an official partner. Find out more about Lyra:
On January 23, 2020 the OpenChain Project also welcomed GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates as an official partner. Find out more about GTC:
OpenChain @ Work Groups
We had a community Pproposal on ‘Collaboration between ACT and OpenChain Reference Tooling WG.’ Fukuchi San from Sony shared a slide deck covering this topic, and if you are interested in open source tooling for open source compliance it is well worth a read:
Events continued globally. The OpenChain Project Japan workgroup held the 12th meeting at NEC on December 19th. Find out more:
The second meeting of the OpenChain India Work Group took place on the 21st of December and was hosted by Lyra Infosystems. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Around the World
OpenChain Around the World – India Snapshot
It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!
OpenChain Around the World – Seminar Snapshot
OpenChain was featured in the seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar was held on the 24th of January. Find out more:
OpenChain @ Events
The OpenChain Project was featured by HH Partners, an official OpenChain Partner, at the Mindtrek Conference in Finland from the 28th to 30th January. Find out more:
OpenChain was at CES 2020 and – beyond hosting a booth with volunteers – we took the opportunity to host a physical meeting of the OpenChain Automotive Work Group. This was a great opportunity to meet some of the people behind the global growth of our industry standard, and to share knowledge about how open source governance works in the automotive space. Find out more:
Fukuchi San from Sony recently shared a slide deck entitled ‘Collaboration between ACT and OpenChain Reference Tooling WG – a Proposal.’ Please find it below for reference. If you are interested in open source tooling for open source compliance and the OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group please join our mailing list. Everyone is welcome:
OpenChain will feature in the forthcoming seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar will be held on the 24th of January and alongside OpenChain you can get up-to-date on topics such as:
- Evolution of open source: control, sustainability, and politics
- Litigation update: Cambium and Artifex cases
- Patents and the open source community
- Impacts of government sanctions
- The shift left for compliance and rise of bug bounty programs
Learn More and Register Here
It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!
Lyra Infosystems has been an active participant in the OpenChain community for several years and – beyond conformance – has actively contributed to the development of our standard for open source compliance and the reference material to support it.
This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 01-20-2020.
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All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki
We have great work groups in China, Japan, Korea, India and Taiwan. It is time to get started in Germany!
Our first meeting will take place on the 6th of February at the Siemens offices in Nuremberg. Our goal is to bring together 10~20 people to discuss what is needed in the German market for OpenChain as a standard and compliance as a practice.
We have some exciting topics to talk about:
- Welcome & Introduction
- OpenChain as an ISO standard
- Developments in our regional groups
- Developments in our global automotive work group
- Discussion of focus topics of the German work group
- Wrap up & Next steps
The goal is to provide a platform for everyone in Germany to quickly sync, share notes and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.
Let’s make it happen! Please confirm you plan to attend by the 16th of January so Oliver @ Siemens can order catering and so on. Confirm by mailing scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org.
Where
- Siemens, Humboldtstr. 59, Nuremberg, 90459, Germany
When
- Between 1pm and 4pm
(easy for flights and trains in and out)
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group is holding a workshop at CES 2020. It takes place between 18:30 and 21:00 on the 9th of January at the ‘St. Croix B’ room in The Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
This will be a great opportunity to meet some of the people behind the global growth of our industry standard, and to share knowledge about how open source governance works in the automotive space. The attendees and speakers will include some of the people central to this field. Whether you are seasoned or you are new, this is the right room to enter.
Speakers
- Russell Eling (Automotive OSS Compliance Specialist)
- Yuichi Kusakabe (Denso Ten)
- Nicholas Weinstock (Qualcomm)
- Masato Endo (Toyota)
How to Attend
Just show up! All welcome, as always!
This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 01-06-2020.
Get the agenda slides
Watch the video minutes
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duElR9rOJ0c&feature=youtu.be
All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki
