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We had a great discussion on the most recent fourth Monday Specification meeting. Key topics were around timescales for releases (we plan to have long periods between releases) and expanding this call to cover our other global work teams as well (which we decided was a good idea).

Check it out below and look forward to an expanded format in November.

On October 14th the MIT Enterprise Forum held a webinar entitled “Once Upon a Time in …Medical Device and Open Source Land.” In this webinar Alexander Adam, medical device expert and Principal at my Firm, medical device innovator, Navin Dewagan, and open source software expert, Matt Jacobs from Synopsys, Inc. discussed some of the effective and practical strategies to reap the benefits of open source software for medical devices, how to maximize the value of your patents and software innovations using open source licensing, and how patents are used in innovative ways to complement open source software. 

Our OpenChain India Work Group has its next meeting on October 30th at 5pm India Time. Join us to learn more about local open source compliance activity, how your peers approach process management, and what is coming next in our field.

Join Us

• https://meet.nixnet.services/b/raj-akz-gzx

In October 2020 the OpenChain Japan Work Group reached 200 contributors from 80 entities across 7 work groups. It has been an exceptional two year journey in building out the community.

Everyone is welcome to participate on the mailing lists and meetings. You can get started by visiting the dedicated wiki page listed below.

Learn More About the Japan Work Group

• https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-JWG/index_en.html

Join The Mailing List

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/japan-wg

Version 11 of SW360 has been released on GitHub. This version supports the Japanese language thanks to the contributions of Hama-san, Dote-san, Koizumi-san and Ninjoji-san from the OpenChain Japan Work Group.

Check Out The New Release

• https://github.com/eclipse/sw360/releases/tag/sw360-11.0.0-M1

Check Out The Updated Installation Guide

• https://github.com/eclipse/sw360/wiki

On October 7th at 15:30 CEST OpenChains General Manager Shane Coughlan joined a panel entitled “Disentangle the Open Source License Jungle” at the Open Source Business Forum. He and the other panelists Hendrik Schoettle, Sasha Vidiborskiy, Dominik Tobschall and Heather Meeker discussed ways for start-ups to navigate the process of choosing an open source license.

Moorcrofts LLP and its sister compliance company Orcro Limited hosted the second meeting of the OpenChain UK Work Group via Zoom on Wednesday 30 September.

During this meeting the OpenChain UK Work Group established the program for OpenChain adoption, education and roll-out in the UK, in readiness for OpenChain’s imminent release as an official ISO standard later this year. 

The OpenChain UK Work Group is free to join, and open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo. The group also aims to help developers’ and organisations’ journey through open source compliance by providing a practical and accessible platform for anyone in the UK to quickly sync, share information and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.

Be Part Of The Future Work

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg