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Shane Coughlan

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history, establishing the leading professional network of Open Source legal experts and aligning stakeholders to launch both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to Open Source. Shane has extensive knowledge of Open Source governance, internal process development, supply chain management and community building. His experience includes engagement with the enterprise, embedded, mobile and automotive industries.

Call to Action – Playbooks – Meeting #3 – 2022-08-31

By News

We recently held our third meeting to review the OpenChain Playbooks. Above you will find the full recording.

For context: we are collaboratively editing version 2 of these documents at this link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1li9heH3x16MmC_UxxpFhWSw1XCwsAdbF?usp=sharing

Our focus during this call was the small company playbook here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0fVeJbzWlh5vRkUfkWbkKgaiPaNtcVCIqgDESLzBbY/edit?usp=sharing

The work we did on this playbook substantially refined the approach in the early parts of the document and will be merged into the other documents (for medium and large companies).

Your contributions and comments are most welcome. This is a great opportunity to brief and encourage strategic management understanding and support of effective, efficient compliance.

OpenChain Summit 2022 – Dublin, Ireland – September 14th

By Featured, News

The OpenChain Project will hold an all-day summit adjacent to Open Source Summit Europe (OSS EU) on the 14th of September. This event will take place 3 minutes walk from the OSS EU venue. It is open to all parties regardless of LF Membership.

Location

  • Orion Room 1 @ Spencer Hotel, Excise Walk, International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1, D01 X4C9, Ireland
  • 3 minutes from Dublin Convention Center (OSS EU venue).
  • Google Map link

Provisional Agenda

  • 11:00 to 11:30: Opening Keynote, Andrew Katz of Orcro
  • 11:30 to 12:30: The OpenChain License Compliance and Security Compliance specification material
  • 12:30 to 14:30: Open source tooling for open source compliance (automation for everyone)
  • 14:30 to 15:30: SBOM Deep Dive – Telco and More
  • 15:30 to 16:30: OSPO and other activities (theory, practice and what is actually happening in market)
  • 16:30 to 17:00: Summary Session

Join via Zoom:

External Webinar: OSS License Compliance: Practical Strategies for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020

By Featured, News

The OpenChain Project had the pleasure of working with the FOSSA team for another webinar explaining aspects of open source license compliance. This time, the practical way you actually adopt ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for compliance.

Check out the webinar:

Get the slide deck:

While you are reviewing FOSSA webinars you may also want to check out ‘The Lawyer’s Guide to OSS License Compliance Tools, Featuring Heather Meeker.’ Heather has long been one of the main lawyers providing useful, practical insight into industry optimization around open source. You will find it here:

OpenChain Taiwan Work Group – Fall 2022 Meetup

By News

The OpenChain Taiwan Work Group held its fall 2022 meetup in collaboration with the Open Culture Foundation (OCF). Singing and her team have long supported our work and we are delighted to continue this collaboration as physical meetings become possible again. We look forward to hosting an international meeting in Taipei in the near future.

For those wondering how the meeting on the 26th was structured you will find the agenda below. You will note that our long-standing excellent relationship between the Taiwan and Japan Work Groups continues to pay dividends. We had the good fortune of welcoming community members from Toshiba and Toyota, and in addition we had a great talk to end the day from KKCompany, a leading media technology group in Asia.

議程/ Agenda:

13:30~14:00|Check-In

14:00~14:10|Opening 開場

14:10~14:40|The Larger Mission of OpenChain: Trust in the Supply Chain
English / Shane Coughlan, General Manager at OpenChain Project, The
Linux Foundation

14:40~15:10|ISO/IEC 5230 Conformance: Toshiba Case Study on Self-Certification
English / Takashi NINJOUJI, Chief Specialist, Toshiba Corporation
English / Masaya Tarui, Fellow, Toshiba Corporation

15:10~15:40|Break – Tea Time

15:40~16:10|Open Source Governance and Supply Chain Management with Community
English / Masato Endo, Group Manager of Driver Monitoring Group, Toyota.

16:10~16:40|從 Open Chain 看為什麼我們要導入開源授權合規標準、以及 Open Chain 的導入經驗分享
Mandarin / 中文 / Peter Hsu, Head of Information Security and Open
Source Compliance, KKCompany Inc.

16:40~17:00|Q & A

OpenChain Japan Work Group – Informal Meeting at Mercari

By News

Kamino San and his staff at Mercari kindly hosted an informal gathering for the OpenChain Japan Work Group on the 24th of August. We had the additional pleasure of welcoming Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network, to the meeting and benefiting from his knowledge of the current intellectual property landscape for open source software.

We are still in the process of spinning up larger gatherings in Japan as COVID restrictions lift, so we look forward to building on this event, and gradually bringing our whole work group together for discussions and networking.

Call to Action: Playbooks – Meeting #2 – 2022-08-17

By Featured, News

We recently held our second meeting to review the OpenChain Playbooks. Above you will find the full recording.

For context: we are collaboratively editing version 2 of these documents at this link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1li9heH3x16MmC_UxxpFhWSw1XCwsAdbF?usp=sharing

Our focus during this call was the small company playbook here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0fVeJbzWlh5vRkUfkWbkKgaiPaNtcVCIqgDESLzBbY/edit?usp=sharing

The work we did on this playbook substantially refined the approach in the early parts of the document and will be merged into the other documents (for medium and large companies) ahead of our next meeting in around a week.

Your contributions and comments are most welcome. This is a great opportunity to brief and encourage strategic management understanding and support of effective, efficient compliance.

Four Hyundai Motor Group Companies Announce Adoption of the ISO International Standard for Open Source Compliance

By Featured, News

Four Hyundai Motor Group companies, joint certification of the ISO international standard for open source compliance
– Acquired ISO certifications of four companies simultaneously through collaboration of Hyundai Motor Company, Kia, Hyundai Mobis, and Hyundai Autoever … The industry’s first the international standard for open source compliance(ISO/IEC 5230:2020) joint certification … Securing public confidence in software and increasing utilization through systematic management of the entire supply chain
– Provides a comprehensive portal and user guide to support developers in the mobility field and expand the ecosystem
– “Beyond the group, we will lead the expansion and development of the open source ecosystem throughout the automobile industry”

The four Hyundai Motor Group companies were internationally recognized for having a systematic management system (compliance) for the use of open source.

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 17th that it has simultaneously acquired the open source compliance-related standard certification(ISO/IEC 5230) from the International Organization for Standardization(ISO) through collaboration with four group companies(Hyundai Motor Company, Kia, Hyundai Mobis, and Hyundai Autoever) that make up the automotive supply chain.

In the last 20 years, the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted the standard of the ‘Open Chain Project’ led by the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization in the United States, as the only international standard related to open source software compliance (ISO/IEC 5230). The International Organization for Standardization evaluates whether the certification is achieved by examining the appropriateness of establishing open source policies and processes, establishing a compliance system, and meeting the standards for developer education and evaluation.

When using open source for software development, there are advantages such as shortening the development period and reducing costs, but it is important to systematically manage the use of open source because problems such as security vulnerabilities and copyright disputes may occur.

Hyundai Motor Group’s open source software compliance international standard certification is characterized by the cooperation of four companies, Hyundai Motor, Kia, Hyundai Mobis, and Hyundai Autoever, that make up the automotive supply chain.

The group companies specialized in software development, component packaging, and mass production obtained ISO certification through collaboration, securing public confidence in open source software across the automotive industry for the first time in the industry.

Through a business agreement with National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), Hyundai Motor Group has expanded its open source management scope to the supply chain while providing (1) establishment of open source management system and education for experts training and (2) open source license verification service to supporting suppliers. The Hyundai Motor Group open source compliance system will be provided in the form of a comprehensive portal at the end of this month.

In addition, Hyundai Motor Group will strengthen its support by providing a guide to users who want to utilize it, and will continue to expand the open source ecosystem and promote win-win cooperation with partners in the future.

“As the importance of open source in the future mobility field is increasing day by day, we will take the lead in expanding and developing the open source ecosystem across the supply chain in automotive industry beyond the group,” said Yonghwa Kim, vice president of Hyundai Motor Company and Kia R&D Division.

Meanwhile, the Hyundai Motor Group is continuously expanding its software support activities throughout the mobility industry by providing open APIs through the Hyundai Motor Company, Kia, and Genesis Developers platforms.