Newsletter – Issue 20 – December 2018
The OpenChain Project has active bi-weekly calls and a central mailing list that provide the “nuts and bolts” of our community activity. These are joined by various releases of documents and announcements of OpenChain-related events throughout each month. We collect key developments in this newsletter once a month.
Introduction
OpenChain closed out the year with activity on all fronts. The most notable activities included multiple multinationals publicly supporting and adopting OpenChain, and the significant growth of reference material targeted towards solving known challenges around compliance in the supply chain.
OpenChain @ Members
We had a terrific month for new membership in the OpenChain Project. Facebook, Google and Uber joined as Platinum Members and put their collective weight behind the adoption and growth of our standard for effective open source compliance in the supply chain:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/06/2488
OpenChain @ Conformance
OpenChain welcomed Scania and Interneuron to the community of conformance. The former organization is a Swedish trucking company with a fantastic heritage as part of the VW Group. The latter is a community interest company in the UK connected with our adoption and growth in the British National Health System eco-system:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/06/openchain-welcomes-scania-to-our-community-of-conformance
These companies were joined by Hitachi, a pre-existing Platinum Member, and one of the largest entities in our history to declare conformance:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/11/hitachi-has-joined-the-openchain-community-of-conformance
OpenChain @ Partners
Adjacent to the Hitachi conformance the OpenChain Project announced TUV SUD as the first certification authority in the OpenChain Partner Program. TUV SUD provided the first third-party audit of OpenChain Conformance to Hitachi through their new TPS PPP 15001A certification based on the OpenChain Specification:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/11/tuv-sud-becomes-the-first-certification-authority-in-the-openchain-partner-program
OpenChain @ Events
The OpenChain Project had an extremely busy month for outreach. The OpenChain Japan Work Group held its 7th meeting at TUV SUD Japan on the 5th of December, one of the largest dedicated events for the project. Learn more:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/03/openchain-japan-work-group-7th-meeting-on-5th-december
On the same day Malcolm Bain from our parter organization id Law Partners delivered a keynote at European Open Source and Free Software Law Event (EOLE) in Paris:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/11/openchain-eole-2018-5th-december
OpenChain was center stage at the Greymatter Cloud Enablement event on the 14th of December in the UK. As with many recent events our project was explained and promoted by one of our partners, Source Code Control in this case:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/04/save-the-date-openchain-greymatter-cloud-enablement-14th-dec
OpenChain also announced the first event of 2019, a volunteer desk at OSC Osaka in January, with our contributor Dote San taking lead:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/02/openchain-osc-osaka-2019
This was quickly followed by an announcement regarding an ABA Committee on Open Source Software on the 17th of January:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/19/aba-committee-on-open-source-software-openchain
OpenChain @ Material
The OpenChain Project released an update to our general introduction slides:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/13/openchain-introduction-slides-updated
The OpenChain Project has been working on improved material for new and existing participants in the project. We kicked off with a project to build a single, simpler unified FAQ for all aspects of the project. Participants were invited to contribute:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/04/request-for-comments-the-unified-openchain-faq
The OpenChain Japan Work Group contributed the first trench of reference business workflows for open source compliance in English and Japanese:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/11/rfc-reference-business-workflows-for-open-source-compliance
OpenChain @ Adoption Support
The OpenChain Project launched new and improved conformance logos. These logos can be used by conformant organizations to demonstrate the existence of their program and the products that flow through that program:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/06/openchain-project-launches-new-certification-logos
OpenChain @ Internationalization
The OpenChain Project continued to build out its internationalization support by launching our full Japan translation of the website. This is a precursor to our releases of Chinese and Korea versions of the website in 2019. Our goal is to make sure OpenChain is as inclusive and understandable as possible:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/06/openchain-website-in-japanese
OpenChain @ Survey
Finally, the OpenChain Project announced the publication of the first OpenChain Survey. The results covered engagement with the project, motives behind this, and areas where we can improve:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/12/18/openchain-q4-survey-the-results
Summary
OpenChain has seen an uptick in membership and conformance adjacent to significant volunteer educational and reference material production activities. As we conclude 2018 we look forward to positioning 2019 as a tipping point for even wider market engagement.
License and Trademarks
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