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OpenChain Newsletter #41

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Newsletter – Issue 41 – September 2020

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 @ Sales and Procurement

We launched a leaflet to help Sales and Procurement Departments understand and include the OpenChain standard for open source compliance in their workflow.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/11/openchain-sales-and-procurement-leaflet-now-available

OpenChain @ Partners

Synopsys has joined the OpenChain Partner program.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/03/wipro-limited-is-the-latest-openchain-partner-2

OpenChain @ Conformance

InterneuronCIC announced OpenChain 2.0 conformance
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/10/interneuroncic-announces-openchain-2-0-conformance

OpenChain @ Webinars #11 & 12:

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OpenChain Newsletter #40

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Newsletter – Issue 40 – August 2020

OpenChain Merchandise Now Available!

The OpenChain Project now has official merchandise! You will find everything from t-shirts to tote-bags to phone cases to mugs in our store. Everything is priced at cost with Threadless. Logos, penguins, country teams and a special global team image. It is all there.

Check Out The Zero Profit Store!

https://openchainproject.threadless.com/

OpenChain @ Partners

  • On August 4, 2020 the OpenChain Project announced Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company as the latest participant in the growing partner program. Wipro will provide an important bridge between companies seeking to adopt the OpenChain industry standard for compliance and the implementation of quality open source compliance programs.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/08/04/wipro-limited-is-the-latest-openchain-partner

OpenChain @ Conformance

OpenChain @ Webinars #9 & 10:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

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OpenChain Newsletter #39

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Newsletter – Issue 39 – July 2020

The OpenChain Project welcomes BMW CarIT GmbH as our 20th Platinum Member. BMW CarIT GmbH joins the governing board of the project ahead of our expected completion of the ISO process in September 2020. Their knowledge, support and expertise is expected to be an invaluable component of the next steps in adoption of the industry standard for open source compliance.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/07/09/openchain-welcomes-bmw-carit-gmbh-as-the-latest-platinum-member


OpenChain @ Partners

OpenChain @ Conformance

OpenChain @ Webinars #7 & 8:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

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OpenChain Newsletter #38

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Newsletter – Issue 38 – June 2020


We have two big announcements leading the news this month.

Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, announced conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain on June 2. As a founding member of the OpenChain Project, Cisco has been instrumental in defining, developing and deploying both the standard and its extensive corpus of reference material. Their conformance marks another milestone in the broadening adoption of the standard throughout silicon, embedded, mobile, telecommunications, enterprise, software and cloud market segments.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/02/cisco-systems-inc-announces-openchain-conformance

Fujitsu

Fujitsu, an OpenChain Platinum Member, is the first organization to attain two OpenChain 2.0 conformant programs. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu personnel support customers in more than 100 countries.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/03/fujitsu-attains-second-openchain-conformant-program


OpenChain @ Webinars #5 & 6:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain UK Work Group is being launched with its first meeting on July 23. The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/30/openchain-uk-work-group-launches-on-july-23rd

OpenChain @ Events (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain Project and its collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation was explored during a session at the ISO WG21 2020 Plenary on the 9th of June. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, lead the primary discussion and Seth Newberry, General Manager of Standards at Joint Development Foundation, explained the JDF PAS approach both in terms of OpenChain and more broadly in the years ahead.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/09/openchain-at-iso-wg21-2020-plenary-9th-june

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OpenChain Newsletter #37

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Newsletter – Issue 37 – May 2020

Latest OpenChain Member


OpenChain @ Webinars #3 & 4:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

OpenChain @ Events (Selected Highlight)

A Brief Introduction to OpenChain – May 2020

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OpenChain Newsletter #36

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Newsletter – Issue 36 – April 2020

OpenChain in Q2 – Continuing Leadership, Continuing Support

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. We will do so with the health of our community and the societies in which we work as our highest priority.

Read more here:


OpenChain @ Webinars:

  • 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 kicked off on Monday the 6th of April at 9am Pacific with speakers covering Supply Chain Governance and Container Compliance.

Our second Webinar was held on the 20th of April and covered compliance in China and OpenChain at Facebook.

We also announced our third Webinar for the 4th of May covering Contribution Policies + OpenChain in M&A. Watch this space for the recording in the next issue.

OpenChain @ Translations

OpenChain Specification 2.0 Available In Russian

OpenChain @ Conformance

Siemens Announces OpenChain 2.0 Conformance

OpenChain @ Partners

OSS Engineering Consultants is an OpenChain Partner

Osborne Clarke is an OpenChain Partner

OpenChain @ Work Groups

OpenChain @ Events

Coming Next

  • This newsletter marks 36 months since we started a major outward push for awareness and adoption in the OpenChain Project. During this time we have seen our industry standard enter a multitude of new markets. You can expect this continue and you can expect initiatives like our webinars to grow over time. Our next newsletter will both provide a new look and a great way for people to get started with our activities. Watch this space.

OpenChain Newsletter #35

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Newsletter – Issue 35 – March 2020

OpenChain Japan Work Group: Republishing the Advent Calendar

During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.

Check Out The First Article

If you want to skip ahead, you can see the whole series here:


OpenChain @ Translations

OpenChain @ GitHub

  • The OpenChain Project has a substantial presence on GitHub. We use our space to store core documents like the project charter and specification, our growing library of reference material under CC-0 licensing, and other material like our project image assets. This allows our global community to quickly access, share and improve all aspects of our work. Find out more:
    https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/03/23/openchain-on-github-march-2020

OpenChain @ Conformance

OpenChain @ Partners

OpenChain @ Work Groups

OpenChain @ Events

OpenChain @ In The News

OpenChain Newsletter #34

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Newsletter – Issue 34 – February 2020

We are delighted to announce that Moxa is our latest Platinum Member company. As a leading provider of industrial edge-to-cloud connectivity and computing solutions for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments, Moxa has demonstrated its continuous commitment to open source compliance to enable advanced industrial networking and communications applications for the IIoT world.

“Moxa is thrilled to join the OpenChain Project to demonstrate our commitment in supporting open source compliance standard,” said Andy Cheng, President of Strategic Business Unit at Moxa. “Moxa has been a strong supporter of the Linux Foundation for some of its important projects such as Civil Infrastructure Project (CIP) for long-term support Linux distribution. We are now looking forward to working closely with the OpenChain community for industry standards of open source compliance.”

Learn more:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/02/17/moxa-joins-openchain-project-as-platinum-member-to-support-open-source-compliance


OpenChain @ Specification

OpenChain @ Interviews

OpenChain @ Conformance

OpenChain @ Partners

OpenChain @ Work Groups

OpenChain @ Third Party Certification

OpenChain @ Events

OpenChain @ Translations

OpenChain @ In The News

OpenChain Newsletter #33

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Newsletter – Issue 33 – January 2020

A message from Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager:

During the outbreak of COVID-19 we have faced unprecedented challenges in the global supply chain. While these challenges are expected to carry through into Q2 our community is making every effort to ensure our strategy is executed effectively. Great thanks are due to everyone making this happen. Stay safe all.


OpenChain @ In The News

A recent interview about OpenChain from FOSSID has been translated into Japanese. This is a great onboarding point for Japanese-speaking individuals and companies interested in learning more about our work. You can check it out here:

OpenChain @ Interviews

In January we also continued our interview series. We are delighted to announce the release of interviews with Samantha from Cisco, Chloe from Huawai and Indira Bhatt from Facebook.

Read Samantha’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/01/05/the-openchain-interviews-samantha-from-cisco

Read Chloe’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/01/15/the-openchain-interviews-chloe-from-huawei

And you can read Indira’s interview here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-9

OpenChain @ Conformance

Inno3 is the Latest OpenChain Conformant Organization. Find out more:

OpenChain @ Partners

The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome Lyra Infosystems as an official partner. Find out more about Lyra:

On January 23, 2020 the OpenChain Project also welcomed GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates as an official partner. Find out more about GTC:

OpenChain @ Work Groups

We had a community Pproposal on ‘Collaboration between ACT and OpenChain Reference Tooling WG.’ Fukuchi San from Sony shared a slide deck covering this topic, and if you are interested in open source tooling for open source compliance it is well worth a read:

Events continued globally. The OpenChain Project Japan workgroup held the 12th meeting at NEC on December 19th. Find out more:

The second meeting of the OpenChain India Work Group took place on the 21st of December and was hosted by Lyra Infosystems. Find out more:

OpenChain @ Around the World

OpenChain Around the World – India Snapshot
It is always great to see OpenChain Project appearing around the global commercial sphere. Here, for example, is the Lyra Infosystems Pvt Ltd website, highlighting their conformance with OpenChain 1.0 and 2.0. Way to go!

OpenChain Around the World – Seminar Snapshot
OpenChain was featured in the  seminar from DLA Piper, GTC Law Group and Synopsys entitled ‘The 2019 Open Source Year in Review.’ The seminar was held on the 24th of January. Find out more:

OpenChain @ Events

The OpenChain Project was featured by HH Partners, an official OpenChain Partner, at the Mindtrek Conference in Finland from the 28th to 30th January. Find out more:

OpenChain was at CES 2020 and – beyond hosting a booth with volunteers – we took the opportunity to host a physical meeting of the OpenChain Automotive Work Group. This was a great opportunity to meet some of the people behind the global growth of our industry standard, and to share knowledge about how open source governance works in the automotive space. Find out more:

OpenChain Newsletter #32

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Newsletter – Issue 32 – December 2019


In December we published interviews from China, Japan and Korea. Talk about hitting the mark with our CJK strategic outreach! Thank you wonderful community members. You can read these and all other interviews here:

OpenChain @ In The News

David Rudin over at Microsoft has written a great blog post unpacking how and why OpenChain Conformance was important to his company. You can read some highlights or the full post here:

OpenChain @ Interviews

We are delighted to announce the release of the fourth OpenChain community interview. This time we had a chance to sit down with Maggie from Ladas and Perry, an active contributor to the OpenChain China Work Group, and a key figure in the broader Chinese open source technology community.

Read the interview here:

We are delighted to announce the release of the fifth OpenChain community interview. This time we had a chance to sit down with Ayumi from Hitachi, an active contributor to the OpenChain Japan Work Group, and an originator of community-building activities such as our recent open source compliance advent calendar

Read the interview here:

We are delighted to announce the release of the sixth OpenChain community interview. This time we spoke with Kyoungae Kim, a leader of open source compliance matters in LGE, and an active contributor to the broader Korean open source governance community.

Read the interview here:

OpenChain @ Conformance

The OpenChain Project announces Microsoft OpenChain Conformance.

Find out more here:

The OpenChain Project announces Uber OpenChain Conformance.

Find out more here:

OpenChain @ Translations

Open Source Policy Template 2.0 in Traditional Chinese and English

The OpenChain Reference Training Slides for OpenChain 2.0 are now available in Traditional Chinese.

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our supplier education leaflet in Vietnamese.

OpenChain @ Work Groups

The OpenChain China Work Group held its second meeting on 12th December 2019. Find out about the agenda and outcomes here:

The fourth OpenChain Korea Work Group meeting took place on the 2nd of December 2019 at KTDS. This event was attended by around 20 people from 8 companies and marked the first release of Korean company case studies. Details below along with links to review our past meetings and to join our Korean mailing list.

OpenChain Experiment: Automated Talk Transcript – Russ from GM. We have a terrific amount of activity in the OpenChain Project. A lot happens around our calls, where we often record audio and video, but we occasionally get asked for other formats too. Time and resources prohibit us from transcribing calls but there are some avenues to explore. Our conference provider offers automated transcriptions and today – for the first time – we are exploring how these may be shared with the community.

The OpenChain India Work Group held its second meeting on the 21st of December at Lyra Infosystems.

Read more here:

OpenChain @ Case Studies

One exciting outcome of the OpenChain Korea Work Group meeting # 4 was the release of our first Korean case studies

Find out more:

OpenChain Project is delighted to announce a case study in collaboration with PwC Germany. It explains how PwC OpenChain certification works globally. Check it out to understand how our industry standard is supported by a range of providers and venders.

OpenChain @ Events

At CES 2020 during early January you can meet some of the key people behind the OpenChain Project. Our demo desk at the Automotive Grade Linux stand will show how open source tooling for open source compliance accelerates time to market and the optimal use of open source code.

Read more here:

OpenChain Volunteers: You Now Have Business Cards and Lanyards

Oliver Fendt presented the purpose and activities of the OpenChain Reference Tooling Group today at the Open Compliance Summit in Tokyo.

Read more here:

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, recently delivered a talk in Paris about the LF Energy Foundation and OpenChain Project. This keynote was part of the inaugural LF Energy Summit and provided a clear example of how compliance and product innovation work together.

Find out more here:

The OpenChain Project was well-represented at the Open Compliance Summit held in Tokyo on December 17th and 18th.

OpenChain in India

The OpenChain India Work Group had a great inaugural meeting hosted by MCA in Bangalore on the 7th of September. 25 people from 11 companies attended and shared experiences around open source compliance matters. This meeting marked the long-awaited expansion of OpenChain into one of the most significant IT markets in the world.

Read more here:

OpenChain in Japan

The OpenChain Japan Work Group and its seven sub-groups are some of the most active parts of the OpenChain Project. Starting this month we are sharing their event schedule in English. We hope to show our local structure and encourage others to replicate it when appropriate around the world.

The OpenChain Japan Work Group will hold its last meeting of the year on the 19th of December. It seems like a good time to reflect on growth and next steps. You can see how our mailing list has expanded over time and the audience trend of the physical meetings.

See you all in the new year!