Mishi Choudhary & Associates (MCA), the law firm partner of the OpenChain Project in India, along with the OpenChain Project is organizing the MCA OpenChain India Working Group Meetup on 19th February (Friday)2021, from 6:00 pm – 7:20 pm (IST). The meetup will include presentations and talks on issues relating to FOSS, Open Source License Compliance and OpenChain.
This is a great opportunity for all OpenChain and open source professionals, technology companies, and FOSS enthusiasts to come together and discuss various aspects of FOSS Compliance. We are looking forward to having a productive discussion to address the problems which are being faced by the FOSS community in India, and to get a global perspective from leaders in the community.
This is a virtual event which will be hosted on BigBlueButton, an Open Source web conferencing application.
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.
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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.
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.
Our newsletter contains some of the highlights from the last month of activity in the project. Plenty more happened. Check out the full stream here: https://www.openchainproject.org/news
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.
There will be a free webinar hosted by Synopsys on the 21st of January covering ISO/IEC 5230 (OpenChain) as part of the schedule, and which will provide a CLE credit for US attorneys in several locations.
The content will be provided by two of the leading open source legal experts, Mark Radcliffe, partner at DLA Piper and general counsel for the Open Source Initiative, and Tony Decicco, shareholder at GTC Law Group & Affiliates.
GTC Law and Synopsys are official OpenChain partner organizations.
Our newsletter contains some of the highlights from the last month of activity in the project. Plenty more happened. Check out the full stream here: https://www.openchainproject.org/news
As part of our continued commitment to internationalization, we are delighted to announce that the full OpenChain 2.1 (ISO/IEC 5230) specification is now available in:
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
These are reference translations provided to help organizations on their path to conformance. These organizations can also self-certify to the standard in:
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
English
French
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
You can get these translations from our GitHub repository
