On this episode we had Seth Newberry from Joint Development Foundation join the call and explain how the new Community Specification on GitHub can help projects prepare for building sustainable standards. We also took a moment to go through the ever-increasing OpenChain Reference library. There is a ton of material there that we are currently improving and making easier to discover ahead of our formal ISO publication in a couple of weeks.
On September 15th OpenChains General Manager Shane Coughlan joined the Automotive Connect 2020 event hosted by Bird&Bird. Shane Coughlan spoke about “Free and Open Software: Challenges for the Automotive Supply Chain” and explained how the industry standard for open source license compliance reduces errors, resource cost and time to market.
In our biggest webinar to date, Jari Koivisto talked about Open Source Issues Remediation, Gary O’Neall talked about Community Bridge and SPDX Online Tools and David Wheeler talked about CII Best Practices (the project equivalent of the OpenChain standard). Check out the full recording and the slides below.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the availability of a new leaflet designed to help Sales and Procurement Departments understand and include the OpenChain standard for open source compliance in their workflow. As with all OpenChain reference material this is provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain, and suggestions or improvements are always welcome.
InterneuronCIC was an early adopter of the OpenChain industry standard for open source compliance, and have had an OpenChain 1.2 conformant program for a considerable time. Today they have completed conformance to OpenChain 2.0, the latest version of our standard, and a specification that is functionally identical to our forthcoming ISO International Standard. A big congratulations to all the team.
Open Compliance Summit 2019にてJPWGのメンバーが発表＆表彰されました OSSライセンスコンプライアンスについての世界最大の国際会議の一つであるOpen Compliance SummitがThe Linux Foundation主催で毎年12月に日本で行われています。 ここにおいても、JPWGメンバの小林さん、杉村さん、大崎さん、山田さん、遠藤が発表を行い、2019年にOSSライセンスコンプライアンスの世界で貢献した人物を表彰する場において、米欧アジアの皆さんと共に福地さん、加藤さん、大崎さん、遠藤の4名も表彰を受けました。
We have kept the original English text for now at the side because that makes it easier to compare and check the translation. In the final version this will be removed and only the German text will be kept.
As a spreadsheet it’s not ideal for detailed review of specific parts of the text. If it’s more convenient for you feel free to copy it into another form of document and comment there.
If you have any questions or would like to get involved you can also contact me or Stefan Thanheiser <stefan.thanheiser@fiduciagad.de> directly.
The plan for the next steps is to get the document a round of reviews, incorporate the resulting feedback, and then create a pull request to the reference material repository with the final version.
Cornelius Schumacher Open Source StewardChief Technology Office (T.IVO) DB Systel GmbH
The OpenChain UK Work Group is holding its second meeting via Zoom on Wednesday 30 September from 14:00 – 16:00 BST.
This meeting will build on the success of the inaugural meeting in July which attracted a stellar roster of speakers, including: Shane Coughlan (Linux Foundation), Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Hiroyuki Fukuchi (Sony), Andrew Katz (Orcro), Sami Atabani (Arm),Thomas Steenbergen (HERE Technologies) and Mirko Boehm, as well as a diverse range of delegates from around the world.
Bookings for the September meeting are now open and can be made via the Eventbrite booking form.
The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.
Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner of Moorcrofts, CEO of Orcro Limited and Chair of the OpenChain UK Work Group, said:
“We’re delighted to see such a high calibre of organisations and individuals involved in the group at the early stages. As we move forward, we hope to see smaller companies join, who are looking to start their OpenChain journey, so we can continue to broaden the reach of the group and OpenChain adoption in the UK.”
To join the OpenChain UK Work Group visit: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg and subscribe to the list to receive future details about the bi-monthly meetings and to sync and share information across all aspects of open source compliance. More information about the group can be found on its draft terms of reference document: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg/files.
The recording of our regular bi-weekly Specification Work Team is now available. This call covered discussion on how to set expectations around evolution of the standard and to ensure maximum support as we graduate from the ISO/IEC process in September.
You can join the Specification Mailing List to follow all the activity
