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The OpenChain Japan Work Group has announced that the 12th OpenChain Japan Work Group will be held on December 19th at the NEC OSS Promotion Center in Tokyo.

This event is the culmination of 24 terrific months of productive collaboration between people from companies of all sizes and in all sectors. Because this meeting is held adjacent to the Open Compliance Summit it will provide an excellent opportunity for our international friends to visit and build new relationships. You can find out more by emailing scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org

We are looking forward to even greater things in 2020!

All Our Meetings Are Listed On The Wiki

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/jwg_meeting_page

The OpenChain Project was featured on the OpenUK website. Shane Coughlan wrote about the OpenChain Project and Practical Compliance.

Read the article here:

OpenChain Compliance Project by Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its second meeting adjacent to Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon during October. We had a full house (people had to sit in the corners). Check out the agenda slides and two great presentations from Scania and Bosch.

OpenChain Automotive Work Group Meeting #2 – Lyon from Shane Coughlan

Open Source at Scania from Shane Coughlan

Bosch: AN UPDATE ON OUR ACTIVITIES IN AUTOMATING OSS COMPLIANCE: A WORKING SHOWCASE from Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Project continues our community interview series with Nicole in Germany. Learn more about her approach to and work in the technology industry here in an interview that is anchored by the OpenChain Project but covers a wide range of IT and gender related topics.

Read the Interview

• https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-3

Read More OpenChain Interviews

• https://www.openchainproject.org/about/leaders

OpenChains Shane Coughlan presented on “Complex Made Simple” at the Bird&Bird automotive management workshop.

You can check out the slides here:

Complex Made Simple @ Bird&Birds OpenChain Seminar from Shane Coughlan

This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 11-04-2019.

Get the agenda slides

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_11-04-2019.pdf

Read the written minutes

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_work_team_call_11-04-2019.pdf

All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/minutes

OpenChains Shane Coughlan presented a keynote at the LF Energy Global Summit in Paris entitled ‘Complex Made Simple.’ This presentation explored how the OpenChain industry standard is transforming open source compliance management.

You can check out the slides here:

Complex Made Simple @ LF Energy Conference in Paris from Shane Coughlan

As always, you are welcome and encouraged to join every list that fits into your interests. This is an open community that develops an open industry standard with extensive open reference material. We are delighted to support multiple industries in the adopting the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program.

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Our Korea Work Group list:
korea-wg@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Automotive Work Group is *already* on Groups.io and will not change:
openchain-automotive-work-group@groups.io

Our Reference Tooling Work Group is *already* on Groups.io and will not change:
oss-based-compliance-tooling@groups.io

The OpenChain Project has launched a dedicated mailing list for participants in our India Work Group. All parties are welcome to join.

Visit the Mailing List

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

In about three hours the OpenChain Project will transition to Groups.io to manage our mailing lists. This means that the address for each individual list will change. Your membership and our archives will automatically transition.

Your guide

Our main mailing list:
main@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Specification list:
specification@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Conformance list:
conformance@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Japan Work Group lists:
japan-wg@lists.openchainproject.orgjapan-sg-licensing@lists.openchainproject.org
japan-sg-planning@lists.openchainproject.org
japan-sg-tooling@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Korea Work Group list:
korea-wg@lists.openchainproject.org

Our Automotive Work Group is *already* on Groups.io and will not change:
openchain-automotive-work-group@groups.io

Our Reference Tooling Work Group is *already* on Groups.io and will not change:
oss-based-compliance-tooling@groups.io