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Webinar: Linux License Clean-Up Disorder Dispelled + ISO 5230 in the Context of Security

By community, Featured, legal, licensing, News, security, standards, Webinar

This webinar unpacked the complexity and solutions for addressing licensing across a large code-base like the Linux Kernel, and it explained how ISO 5230 has been applied to the security domain by some parties in the supply chain.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #22, released on 2021-04-21.

Webinar: Automation Workflows, IP Protection, Legal Solvers

By community, Featured, legal, licensing, News, Webinar

This webinar covered three major items:

  1. Reference Workflows for Automation Around Open Source Compliance
  2. Protecting Your IP from Devaluation via OpenChain Compliance
  3. How To Approach The “legal solver” Topic

You can see some of the images and slides below.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #20, released on 2021-03-16.

Webinar: Exploring Sustainable Community Management Through FreeDOS

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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.

Learn More About Our Speaker

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 OutlookCIO ReviewUniversity BusinessOpenSourceLinux 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 OutlookUniversity 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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #18, released on 2021-02-17.

Webinar: LFX – Tools to Build and Scale Sustainable Technologies

By automation, community, Featured, News, Webinar

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.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #17, released on 2021-02-01.

Webinar: ISO/IEC 5230 Contribution and Extensions

By community, Featured, licensing, News, standards, Webinar

This webinar explained how to help with the development of OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, including contributing new ideas, or potentially expanding aspects of its use. As an open project, ensuring everyone can engage easily is a key part of our culture.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #16, released on 2021-01-20.

Webinar: Michael Poe on His Journey to Open Source

By community, Featured, licensing, News, standards, Webinar

We heard from Michael G. Poe, a newcomer to the world of Open Source Compliance and current Sales Manager with FossID.  He shared his thoughts on his surprising journey from consumer products to software, and how the underlying principles of the open source community have enabled him along the way.  

Michael also touched on what he believes can be some of the challenges to the frictionless adoption of OpenChain conformance. And lastly, based on his experiences and learning agenda thus far, what are some areas that can be improved when it comes to Open Source, Compliance, and the tech industry in general.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #15, released on 2020-12-11.