Shane Coughlan

The official reference translation of the OpenChain Specification 2.0 is now available in Russian thanks to Denis Dorotenko (Yandex) and Pavel Lugovoy (independent counsel). This marks another important milestone for our project, providing greatly increased geographic coverage for our work, and helping to support engagement in a country with a long history of technology leadership.

Get OpenChain 2.0 In Russian (PDF)

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Specification/raw/master/Community/ru/2.0/OpenChainSpec-2.0-Translation-ru.pdf

Help With Translation Into Other Languages

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Specification

The OpenChain Project has a global community of organizations working together to make open source compliance faster, easier and more effective. We have local work teams in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India and Germany, as well as international work teams covering automotive, reference tooling and education.

With physical meetings on pause due to COVID-19 we are providing enhanced support for remote meetings to our work teams, to organizations and to people who want to make use of remote conferencing. Our Zoom room provides you with video chat for up to 100 people, screen sharing and other features to run meetings, webinars and round tables. There is no cost and there are no restrictions to use as long as the topic is open source compliance.

You can book a meeting at the link below. Each meeting slot is 1 hour. Priority is for OpenChain meetings, so other compliance discussion bookings may be adjusted if there is overlap. We do not envision this happening often.

Schedule a Meeting

• https://calendly.com/openchainproject

Please note: the organizer or host should schedule a meeting on our system and then invite their attendees separately. Our booking system is just for letting organizers know which slots are available. All meetings take place without passwords or entry codes. All meetings have video and audio recorded by our system for potential later review.

Over the last three years the OpenChain Project has held bi-weekly calls on the First Monday (9am Pacific) and Third Monday (5pm Pacific) of each month. These calls have driven forward our standard for open source compliance and a large corpus of supportive reference material. Today we are at an inflection point and we have an opportunity to enhance our service to the global community.

With less emphasis right now on editing our standard (the forthcoming ISO version is fully baked) and our reference material largely produced via local work teams, there is an opportunity to launch an on-going series of webinars that provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events.

We kick off on Monday the 6th of April at 9am Pacific with two guest speakers.

Dr. Nikolay Harutyunyan will speak about ‘Corporate Open Source Governance of Software Supply Chains’, a talk based on recently published research constituting material from a literature review of 87 publications, a qualitative survey of 20 primary materials and 21 expert interviews at 15 companies. This bridged into a 2.5-year longitudinal study into a company that was just getting started with open source governance and following their evolution.

Armijn Hemel, MSc will speak about Docker container compliance. He has an extensive background as an internationally recognized expert in the field of GPL license compliance engineering with a particular focus on practical solutions to real-world product and service challenges. While best known for his work in embedded technology, Armijn has been exploring the topic of container compliance in recent years, and has been at the forefront of defining best practices in this space.

Each talk will run for 10~15 minutes and there will be plenty of time for questions, comments and suggestions. As with all OpenChain Project activities, our goal is to facilitate knowledge-sharing between peers.

Everyone is invited to join this free webinar via zoom. It will also be recorded and made available later on our website. Additionally, our Third Monday April webinar schedule will be announced soon. Watch this space.

Join Our Zoom Meeting

• https://zoom.us/j/9990120120

Password

• 123456

One Tap Telephone (no screensharing)

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Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abeUqy3kYQ
Not all countries have available numbers.

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The global lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 is a unique historical moment. We are seeing both great success and great challenges in addressing this disease, and at all times there is an awareness that it can impact our close friends and families. To a large extent the OpenChain community is fortunate. Many of our companies allow us to work from home. Many of us are near excellent health services. We are well-positioned to weather this storm.

That said, COVID-19 has disrupted all of our supply chains and it has created a situation where face-to-face meetings have been completely supplemented by remote services. Different companies are at different stages in using such systems and we inevitably face a combination of adjusted priorities and delays in this situation. Open source license compliance is just one component among thousands as we collectively try to maintain services and to bring products to market in a changed world.

During Q1 our community has continued to function effectively. We launched our German Work Group. Our Asian work groups (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and India) either proceeded entirely remotely or deferred certain activities while continuing core work remotely. Our global automotive and reference tooling work groups continue to bring people together and – in the case of tooling – edge ever closer to describing fully-formed methods for companies to deploy open source tooling for open source compliance automation. Most importantly, our work in bringing OpenChain through the ISO process has continued, and we remain on track for deployment as an official ISO standard in 1H 2020. 

Looking forward I would highlight three activities that can help drive us forward and address immediate market requirements.

1. We keep pushing our ISO work. This will be a critical development for assisting sales and procurement departments in their understanding, adoption and deployment of our industry standard.
2. We work to bridge the physical divide that our community faces due to the pandemic. To make this happen I am going to pivot our bi-weekly calls. With less emphasis on editing our standard (the forthcoming ISO version is fully baked) and our reference material largely produced via local work teams, there is an opportunity to launch an on-going series of webinars to provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events. The timing schedule remains the same (first Monday, third Monday). Full announcement later today.
3. We seek to address the growing market demand for clarity on automation via our Reference Tooling Work Group. Today I am putting out a request to our tooling work group to accelerate activity around one or more turn-key reference implementations of open source tooling for open source compliance. I believe this will provide both the opportunity to guide more companies onto automation in compliance and – just as importantly – it will provide a clear understanding of gaps in existing tools. The latter point will allow us to provide “shopping lists” to activities like ACT, which is a funding umbrella for a growing number of open source tooling projects.

You fit into every part of this

• Join our webinars as part of the audience or as presenters. Ask questions and provide answers. Bridge the knowledge gaps that we all benefit from closing. 
• Participate in our local work groups (virtually for now), helping to create reference material in multiple languages that takes companies forward in their desire to deploy the key requirements of quality open source compliance programs.
• Take part in our global work groups (reference tooling, automotive, education) and help to tie together whole-sector understanding and responses. 

You can get started right away.

Over the last 34 months we have redefined how open source compliance is approached. We have built an industry standard that is seeing accelerating adoption. We have produced over 400 documents of reference material to support this standard. Our educational material has become a new baseline for how companies approach the training of their staff. Above all, as a virtual-first community, we are positioned to provide a pillar that visibly, effectively guides the global expanse of companies adopting, developing and deploying open source in products and services.

OpenChain is an ambitious project that has experienced exceptional success in defining what constitutes a quality open source compliance program. We are equally successful in fostering exceptional local and global communities that redefine how organizations collaborate on shared solutions. In our space, and in the wider open source community, there has never been a better time to help reduce friction and help people work together.

Let’s take this forward.

Access the most comprehensive OpenChain information in Traditional Chinese here.

OpenChain 臺灣網站正式上線!

https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-TWG/

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訂閱臺灣 OpenChain 官方社群 Mailing List

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はじめに

こんにちは。あるいは、はじめまして。
OpenChain Japan WGのアドベントカレンダーへようこそ！
私たちOpenChain Japan WGは、OSS(Open Source Software)のコンプライアンスに関する活動をしている日本のコミュニティです。
これから25日間にわたって、コミュニティのみんなでたくさんのことをお伝えしていきたいと思います。このアドベントカレンダーを通して、私たちの活動やOSSコンプライアンスの重要性について知っていただくとともに、コミュニティのメンバーについても知っていただき、参加したいなと思っていただけるようになれば幸いです。
どうぞよろしくお願いします。

自己紹介

アドベントカレンダーのトップバッターを務めさせていただきます渡邊歩です。OSSの活用に関するコンサルテーションを生業としています。
好きなライセンスは、Beerware Licenseです。
OSSコンプライアンスについては8年ほどのキャリアになりますが、OSS管理のベストなやり方を提案し、お客様と一緒にOSS管理のプロセスを作りあげていくお仕事をしています。

OpenChainについて

OpenChainは、Linux Foundationの公式プロジェクトのひとつで、OSSのライセンスコンプライアンスプログラムを組織が構築するための指針を整備しているプロジェクトです。OpenChainは、ソフトウェアのサプライチェーンの中で活動する人々が各組織内に確立すべきコンプライアンスプログラムの要件を、OpenChain仕様として定義し、各組織がそれらを確立するための支援を行っています。

Japan WGについて

OpenChain Japan WGは、日本で活動するOpenChainのワーキンググループで、日本企業ならではの課題や解決策について議論や情報交換を行っています。Japan WGの中には更にPlannning, Tooling, Promotion, FAQ, リーフレット, 教育資料, ライセンス情報など、たくさんのサブワークグループがあり、それぞれが活発に活動しています。このアドベントカレンダーでは、それぞれのサブワークグループのリーダーによる活動報告もありますのでお楽しみに！

我々のまとめ役、Shaneさん

OpenChainのゼネラルマネージャーのShane Coughlanさんは、我々のまとめ役として、我々の活動をいつも、温かく応援してくれています。
Shaneさんからのコメントを紹介します！

The OpenChain Project defines the industry standard for open source compliance. It identifies the inflection points where a process, or a policy, or a training program should exist. At a high level, it takes the knowledge of thousands of people from hundreds of companies in this space, and it condenses it into clear, unambiguous definitions that any company in any market can adopt.

The OpenChain industry standard does not dictate the content of each process, policy or training program because it needs to be applicable to companies of all sizes in all markets. However, we have a super active and supportive community. There is reference material of all sorts – including entire reference training programs or multi-industry policy options – accessible via our website.

Indeed, the community of the OpenChain Project is our most valuable asset. We have local work groups in China, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We have global mailing lists for the project as a whole, for automated tooling, for automotive. There is an incredible amount of energy and passion around collaboration in this space. We are all learning, and improving, due to this.

The OpenChain Japan Work Group holds a special place in my heart. It was our first local work group and it is our largest, most successful local community activity. People from so many companies and situations join together, share their thoughts, and collaborate to make things better. It captures the heart of open source. I hope that you can experience some of this during our 25 day advent calendar.

(日本語訳)
OpenChainプロジェクトは、オープンソースコンプライアンスを実施するために必要な業界標準を定義しています。この業界標準は、組織にオープンソースコンプライアンスが定着することを、プロセス、ポリシー、トレーニングプログラムが存在することと定義しています。高いレベルで、この分野の数百の企業の数千の人々の知識を、明確で不明瞭さのない定義へと凝縮させています。このため、この定義はあらゆる市場の企業に適用できるものになっています。

OpenChain業界標準は、すべての市場のあらゆる規模の企業に適用できる必要があるため、プロセス、ポリシー、トレーニングプログラムの具体的な内容には触れません。しかしながら、我々には非常に活発で協力的なコミュニティがあり、有益な情報を相互に共有することができます。あらゆる種類の参考資料(網羅的なトレーニングプログラムや複数業種に適用できるポリシーなど)を、我々のWebサイトから入手することができます。

OpenChainプロジェクトのコミュニティは、まさに我々の最も貴重な財産とも言えるものでしょう。中国、インド、日本、韓国、台湾などにローカルワークグループがあります。また、OpenChain全体(グローバル)のメーリングリスト(ML)にも、プロジェクト全体のML、コンプライアンスの自動化ツールのML、自動車分野のMLが存在しています。各地域のワーキンググループや各トピックのメーリングリストを通じて行われるコラボレーションには、信じられないほどのエネルギーと情熱があります。このような「熱い」コラボレーションにより、私たちは皆、これにより新たな気付きを得、自ら改善することができるのです。

OpenChain Japan WGは私にとって特別なものです。我々OpenChainにとって初のローカルワークグループであり、かつ最も大きくかつ成功しているローカルコミュニティでもあります。多様な企業、異なる状況にあるメンバーが一緒に活動し、意見を交換しながらより良いものを目指して協力しています。これはオープンソースの精神そのものであると思います。このアドベントカレンダーの読者の方が25日間を通して我々の活動を体感していただければ嬉しく思います。

明日のテーマは・・・

明日のテーマは「Planningサブワークグループの紹介」です。
担当は、いつもワーキングの色々なタスクを率先してやって下さる、とっても優しい今田さんです。
では明日の記事をお楽しみに！！

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