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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that Panasonic is our latest Platinum Member company. We have been collaborating closely with Kato San and his team for a considerable period, and their work has been central to the extraordinary growth and activity of the OpenChain Japan Work Group. It is fitting that we are making this announcement at the tenth meeting of the Japan Work Group, just prior to Open Source Summit Japan, when community participants will have an opportunity to meet Kato San and his team at panels and workshops related to OpenChain.

“Panasonic operates across multiple key markets for technology. Consumer electronics, automotive and aviation all play a part in their deployment of software around the world,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “This is a natural next step in our partnership and it provides a significant boost to our goal of addressing critical markets like automotive and in providing open source compliance excellence to suppliers of all sizes.”

Learn More About Panasonic

• https://www.panasonic.com/global/corporate/history/chronicle.html

This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 07-15-2019.

Get the agenda slides

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/media/openchain/openchain_work_team_meeting-_07-15-2019.pdf

Read the written minutes

• This meeting was cut short early due to audio issues. There were four attendees: Tom Osaki from Fujitsu, Endo San from Toyota, Shane Coughlan from LF and Dave Marr from Qualcomm. Osaki San, Endo San and Coughlan had a meeting later in the day (OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #10) to further review the agenda slides if needed.

All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki

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

Recently the OpenChain Project has expanding rapidly with Platinum Member engagement from Cloud Companies (Facebook, Google, and Microsoft) and the Auto-Industry (Hitachi, Bosch and Uber). Adjacent to this the OpenChain Japan Work Group has also become very active. In this panel Fujitsu, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and Toyota will share their experience of open source compliance and the latest activities of our local community.

In this panel Fujitsu, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and Toyota will share their experience of open source compliance and the latest activities of our local community.

Learn More

• https://ossalsjp19.sched.com/event/OVsZ/panel-discussion-openchain-activities-of-japanese-companies-masato-endo-toyota-motor-corporation-shinsuke-kato-panasonic-satoru-ueda-sony-corporation-yoshitake-kobayashi-toshiba-nobuo-imada-hitachi-ltd?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no

Bird&Bird hosted an Open Source Program seminar on the 25th June 2019 to explore the cutting edge in Open Source Program Offices in Europe and beyond. Attendees included representatives from leading national and international organizations, and all parties were active in exploring legal topics like “contributions” and “project leadership” alongside the processes needed to ensure corporate success in this field. The opening keynote was delivered by Amani Hajj Ali and Fabienne Haag from SAP, explaining how their company’s outbound process remains transparent and agile through the use of a standard like OpenChain. The event also covered open source tooling to compliance and other process management in business, a talk delivered by Dr. Michael C. Jaeger from Siemens, before proceeding into a group discussion focused on how OpenChain supports leadership position in open source management. The evening was concluded with open discussion over snacks and drinks.

Learn More

• https://www.twobirds.com/de/events/germany/2019/innovative-open-source-leaderships

On July 9th the Education subgroup (Iwata-san) held a meeting at the Hitachi office (Sasazuka, Tokyo).

The Education supgroup is making additional material to curriculum. (It may be controversial.) We think we need training material to explain FOSS compliance program that is the essence of OpenChain.

To see this guide and many more documents, reference the OpenChain Reference Library.

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that HELLA Aglaia, a German company focused on the automotive space, is the latest OpenChain Specification 2.0 conformant company.

“HELLA Aglaia entered the OpenChain community via the OpenChain 1.2 conformance process earlier this year,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We were delighted with a productive, efficient collaboration, and equally heartened with their decision to take a leadership position in the adoption of OpenChain 2.0, the version of our standard positioned for fast-track submission to ISO. OpenChain is gathering particular momentum in the automotive industry due to the initiative and pursuit of excellence of such companies. We are looking forward to building new bridges to an ever wider group of stakeholders.”

The OpenChain Japan Work Group will host its 10th meeting at Fujitsu Solution Square in Tokyo on the 16th of July. All parties local and foreign are welcome. This event will be held in English and Japanese and is a great way to get up-to-speed on activities in Asia.

Access to Fujitsu Solution Square 

JR Keihin Tohoku Line, Tokyu Tamagawa Line, Tokyu Ikegami Line. Leave via the West Exit, then 6 minutes walk along side the JR Keihin Tohoku Line in the direction of Yokohama and Kawasaki

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Address: 
1-17-25 Shin-kamata, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8588

Thanks to the hard work of our friendly contributors, Denis and Yegor, the OpenChain Specification 1.2 has an official translation in Russian. This translation joins our growing corpus of localization documents for our international community.

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

Contribute to new versions

• Via the main project mailing list: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/openchain

This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 07-01-2019.

Get the agenda slides

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_07-01-2019.pdf

Read the written minutes

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_work_team_call_07-01-2019_minutes.pdf

All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki

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

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The OpenChain Project today welcomes BKL Law Firm as our first Korean participant in the Partner Program. This marks a significant milestone in building out a China, Japan, Korea (CJK) support network and is a complementary activity to the newly formed OpenChain Korean Work Group for user companies.

“Our firm is thrilled to be a partner of OpenChain,” says Jong Baek Park, Partner at BKL. “I believe that open source compliance through supply chain will be more improved and widespread thanks to OpenChain in coming years. We will do our best to contribute to the OpenChain community and help companies set up their compliance program to be OpenChain conformant.”

“The OpenChain Project has seen steady growth in the Asian region and recently we have formed an active Korea work group for user companies,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Adjacent to this we are delighted to build out a support network for user companies that seek assistance around open source compliance issues. It is my pleasure to announce that our first legal partner in Korea is the BKL law firm and is spearheaded by Jongbaek Park, a long-term collaborator in the open source community and one of the key contributors to the Korean version of the OpenChain Specification. We look forward to continually expanding our user and our partner support network in the region.”

Learn More About the OpenChain Partner Program

• https://www.openchainproject.org/partners

Learn More About BKL

• http://www.bkl.co.kr/main/en/main.jsp