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OpenChain Japan Work Group Reaches 200 Contributors from 80 Entities

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In October 2020 the OpenChain Japan Work Group reached 200 contributors from 80 entities across 7 work groups. It has been an exceptional two year journey in building out the community.

Everyone is welcome to participate on the mailing lists and meetings. You can get started by visiting the dedicated wiki page listed below.

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OpenChain @ O4B – The Open Source Business Forum – 7th October 2020

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On October 7th at 15:30 CEST OpenChains General Manager Shane Coughlan joined a panel entitled “Disentangle the Open Source License Jungle” at the Open Source Business Forum. He and the other panelists Hendrik Schoettle, Sasha Vidiborskiy, Dominik Tobschall and Heather Meeker discussed ways for start-ups to navigate the process of choosing an open source license.

OpenChain UK Work Group Meeting #2 – 30th September 2020

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Moorcrofts LLP and its sister compliance company Orcro Limited hosted the second meeting of the OpenChain UK Work Group via Zoom on Wednesday 30 September.

During this meeting the OpenChain UK Work Group established the program for OpenChain adoption, education and roll-out in the UK, in readiness for OpenChain’s imminent release as an official ISO standard later this year. 

The OpenChain UK Work Group is free to join, and open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo. The group also aims to help developers’ and organisations’ journey through open source compliance by providing a practical and accessible platform for anyone in the UK to quickly sync, share information and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.

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OpenChain Newsletter #41

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Newsletter – Issue 41 – September 2020

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

OpenChain @ Sales and Procurement

We launched a leaflet to help Sales and Procurement Departments understand and include the OpenChain standard for open source compliance in their workflow.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/11/openchain-sales-and-procurement-leaflet-now-available

OpenChain @ Partners

Synopsys has joined the OpenChain Partner program.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/03/wipro-limited-is-the-latest-openchain-partner-2

OpenChain @ Conformance

InterneuronCIC announced OpenChain 2.0 conformance
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/10/interneuroncic-announces-openchain-2-0-conformance

OpenChain @ Webinars #11 & 12:

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Webinar: Community Specification + OpenChain Reference Library

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On this episode we had Seth Newberry from Joint Development Foundation join the call and explain how the new Community Specification on GitHub can help projects prepare for building sustainable standards. We also took a moment to go through the ever-increasing OpenChain Reference library. There is a ton of material there that we are currently improving and making easier to discover ahead of our formal ISO publication in a couple of weeks.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #12, released on 2020-09-17.

Webinar: Open Source Issues Remediation + Community Bridge and SPDX Online Tools + CII Best Practices

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In our biggest webinar to date, Jari Koivisto talked about Open Source Issues Remediation, Gary O’Neall talked about Community Bridge and SPDX Online Tools and David Wheeler talked about CII Best Practices (the project equivalent of the OpenChain standard). Check out the full recording and the slides below.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #11, released on 2020-09-11.