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OpenChain Webinar: AboutCode and Beyond – End-to-End SCA

This OpenChain Webinar digs into open source tooling with open data for open source compliance. https://youtu.be/2vNKUK5ZNMw Full Overview From The Presenters Ensuring software license and security compliance can be difficult. Managing open source components - especially their licensing, provenance, and vulnerability risk - is a critical part of Software Composition…

Webinar: OFE Briefing on the Cyber Resilience Act

This webinar is a special briefing lead by Ciarán O’Riordan, Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe (OFE), on European policy matters that impact open source, business processes and risk management. OFE is a not-for-profit, Brussels-based independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing to policy makers and…

Webinar: LF Management & Best Practices Portal

This webinar by Hilary Carter, SVP Research at The Linux Foundation, unpacked LF Management & Best Practices, the digital home where communities of “best practice” converge. Here, you’ll be able to find the standards, reference material, courses, live events and webinars, research, project communities, and the automation tools to help…

Webinar: SCANOSS Export Control

This time we had a special Webinar from Julian at SCANOSS to show us how they have collected and built solutions around managing open source and export control. https://youtu.be/Cya3OgVSXAI More About Our Webinars: This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout…

Webinar: FOSDEM 2024 Recap

For the second year in row, we welcome Philippe Ombredanne to recap the FOSDEM event for us. This is a great way to catch-up on one of the best events in the world discussing open source development, management and (most importantly for us) legal, licensing and automation. https://youtu.be/P6HseoTVFlg

Webinar: SPDX 3.1 – Services Profile Overview

Gary O'Neall of Source Auditor talked about how the new SPDX Services Profile proposal structures information. This profile is likely to have an important on business process management, as it covers topics far beyond open source compliance, with one example being fields for topics like Export Control. Gary's deep background…

Webinar: The Open Source Initiative

Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director at the Open Source Initiative, joined us to explain what is happening around the Open Source Definition, AI and more. https://youtu.be/Qbfrz8Ezszc Get The Slides https://www.slideshare.net/ShaneCoughlan3/openchain-webinar-57-the-open-source-initiative-20231127 Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars https://www.openchainproject.org/webinars This is OpenChain Webinar #57, released on 2023-12-06.

Webinar: Generative AI and Your Code

Maximizing the Opportunity While Managing the Risks Generative AI (GAI) provides powerful opportunities for innovation and productivity across all organizational functions – from composing emails and crafting press releases to retouching and refining images and video, all this in seconds.  GAI tools can even be used to write, test and improve computer…

Webinar: GPLv2 Licensing History

This OpenChain Webinar features an overview of GPLv2 licensing fragmentation based on research initiated by Philippe Ombredanne of NexB and continued by Armijn Hemel of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions. The key takeaway is that a significant number of variations exist (40 "vanilla" copies from the FSF or GNU website, 12…

Webinar: A WebAssembly Fireside Chat with Armijn Hemel

This OpenChain webinar was released as a recording adjacent to the Open Compliance Summit keynotes here in Yokohama, Japan. This time we are having 'A WebAssembly Fireside Chat with Armijn Hemel,’ unpacking work being done around WebAssembly, compliance and the questions lawyers can usefully ask. https://youtu.be/es9-FIRkhFc Get the full report Armijn…