This webinar covered the concept of preparing for adoption of ISO 5230 via readiness assessments. This approach can provide a company with a structured way of allocating resources to improve their open source management.
This is OpenChain Webinar #27, released on 2021-07-27.
This webinar covered a lot of ground with open hardware, new open source automation from Korea and methods of using SPDX with the Yocto Project. It provided a solid way to “take the pulse” of a certain moment in open source governance.
Plus…
The LG Electronics video on FOSSLight
The full LG Electronics presentation
This is OpenChain Webinar #26, released on 2021-07-07.
In this webinar we had two great talks and a very active Q&A. First we had Dr. Till Jaeger from JBB Rechtsanwälte on ‘How to bring an ancient development project into compliance best practices.’ This was followed by Nicole Pappler from AlektoMetis ‘OpenChain ISO 5230 and Software Quality Management.’ Check out the full recording below.
This is OpenChain Webinar #25, released on 2021-06-23.
This webinar explored the variants of the GPLv2 that exist and have existed throughout the years, highlighting the existence of small changes in details that may be relevant to some parties.
This is OpenChain Webinar #24, released on 2021-06-03.
This webinar explored how ISO 5230, the International Standard for open source license compliance, is being used by Venture Capital firms to assess the quality of corporate governance they encounter.
This is OpenChain Webinar #23, released on 2021-05-21.
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.
This is OpenChain Webinar #22, released on 2021-04-21.
This webinar explored how the OpenChain Project has fostered an inclusive community, and what that means for the development of local and global work groups.
This is OpenChain Webinar #21, released on 2021-04-14.
This webinar covered three major items:
This is OpenChain Webinar #20, released on 2021-03-16.
This webinar explains how ISO 5230, the International Standard for open source license compliance, works with and changes the global supply chain.
This is OpenChain Webinar #19, released on 2021-03-02.
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.
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 Outlook, CIO Review, University Business, OpenSource, Linux 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 Outlook, University 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.
This is OpenChain Webinar #18, released on 2021-02-17.
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