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.
First Hour: Our Specification Work Group worked on an optional security support document for OpenChain ISO 5230. This took the form of an explanatory document illustrating OpenChain usage in the context of security.
Second Hour: Our Education Work Group worked on finalizing the OpenChain online course. The focus will be on merging all remaining comments with the current document. We also locked down the “Supplier Education Pack” containing basic supplier education, OpenChain introduction, and our reference training material.
Third Hour: We reviewed the current “state of the union” in open source automation based on the experience and knowledge of the OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group. We identified the “pain points” for interoperability between various open source tools for open source compliance.
WhiteSource will host a webinar at 11:00 BST on March 11th covering the use of Software Component Analysis in the context of OpenChain ISO 5230. Martin Callinan from Source Code Control will also provide perspective from his client engagement.
From the WhiteSource site:
In this webinar, our experts will present how the OpenChain Specification evolved to become an ISO standard, and will discuss the importance of choosing the right SCA tool for organizations to adopt so they can focus on value-added activities that drive the success of their businesses.
The UK Work Group will hold its fourth meeting on the 26th of March between 14:00 and 16:00 GMT (UTC+0). The schedule and final details will be published shortly.
If you are interested in this event and other UK activities, it is recommended that you join the UK Work Group mailing list. Everyone is welcome.
Newbies Session 14:00 –15:00 Orientation by K. Owada Q&A
All member meeting 15:00 –15:02 Opening 15:02 –15:10 Keynote by Shane Coughlan 15:10 –15:20 AboutOpenChain Japan WGby M. Endo 15:20 –16:00 Introduction to outcome of Japan WG FAQ by Y Ouchi Education by Y. Iwata Leaflet by N. Kobota Tooling by T. Ninjouji License Info. by S. Koizumi Promotion by M. Endo Lightning Talk by S. Kato 16:00 Closing
The OpenChain Reference Training Slides are now available in Italian. A big thank you to Alessandra De Luca and the rest of the team at NTT Data Italy for making this happen!
Download the slides under CC-0 licensing (effectively public domain)
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 @ Quarterly Survey
The Q1 Survey is live for 2 weeks. This is the key way we collect feedback to help improve our support of ISO 5230 and our broader ecosystem, and should only take 10 minutes to complete.
You can watch OpenChain Webinars #17 & 18 on LFX: Tools to Build and Scale Sustainable Technologies, & Exploring Sustainable Community Management Through FreeDOS, respectively:
We are doing a lot of editing. Here is what we are working on:
We want to close the comments on this Word document to create our new free online training course on edX. We currently have a lot of suggestions around parts 1~4 and need suggestions around parts 5~8. Please review and add notes to help us make this happen for late March delivery! https://1drv.ms/w/s!AsXJVqby5kpnkRE0rsGzo5lduvaq?e=t0aEs5
We want to review the supplier “Introduction to OpenChain” slide deck to consider refinements to language to make it super clear and simple for organizations completely new to OpenChain: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AsXJVqby5kpnkRUxneDgBQMWIUmx
Finally, we want to update two specific areas of our general project overview slides. The first, slide 22, is about explaining the place of OpenChain in the eco-system. What is the best way to visualize this? The second is to review the project summary language on slide 26 to consider if it fits your mental model of how we should be summarized: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AsXJVqby5kpnkRbTu0pv0Jgb0aAQ
If we get all this together we will have the perfect package to hand to suppliers and other interested parties to onboard them into our ecosystem.
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.
