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A Brief Introduction to OpenChain – February 2020 from Shane Coughlan

On January 25 2020 OpenChain was featured in an article in the Corporate Review magazine. This article focused on the recent announcement of Lyra Infosystems becoming an official OpenChain Project partners.

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Linux Foundation’s OpenChain project welcomes Lyra Infosystems as new Partner!

Yuichi Kusakabe kindly made his slides from a recent global Automotive Work Group meeting available.

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OpenChain AutomotiveWG(OSS license tools() from Yuichi Kusakabe

On Thursday, 13 February 2020, OpenChain was featured in an article in the CIO Review India. The primary focus of the article was related to welcoming Lyra Infosystems are an official partner.

“We are excited and delighted to be part of the OpenChain Ecosystem to offer OpenChain conformance services, Open Source Policy, Process, Compliance consultation, Legal Remediation, and Audit services to organizations around the globe. Lyra Infosystems is an Open Source promoter, user, provider and a services organization with more than 280+ customers across geographies, domains, industries and technology verticals,” says Naba Magrabi, Open Source Senior Consultant for Lyra Infosystems.

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https://www.cioreviewindia.com/news/linux-foundation-s-openchain-project-welcomes-lyra-infosystems-as-new-partner-nid-5330-cid-130.html

This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 02-17-2020.

Get the agenda slides

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_2020-02-17.pdf

Watch the video minutes

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Is6Vc-7AeY

All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/minutes

Request for Comments: One Slide Summary of Where OpenChain Fits in Workflows from Shane Coughlan

Fukuchi San from Sony has provided us with a draft outlining where the various sections of the OpenChain Specification fit into company process workflows. This is building on a document that was previously available for OpenChain Specification 1.2. The goal is to provide a quick framing of our industry standard for organizations considering adoption, considering conformance, or managing these activities. 

We would like to collect feedback on this document as it is likely to disseminate widely throughout our community in various languages over time. Email our General Manager (scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org) or any of our mailing lists to provide comments and suggestions. 

The 10th OpenChain Project interview is live! Meet Alex, who makes sure our collection of international activities are recorded and fit together, and who brought previous interviews to publication.

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• https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-10

Check out all the interviews

• https://www.openchainproject.org/about/leaders

Stefan from Fiducia & GAD IT announced yesterday that work is well advanced on a German translation of our Supplier Education Leaflet. Originally created by a sub-group of the OpenChain Japan Work Group, the supplier education leaflet is available in Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Vietnamese as a draft.

Stefan’s full announcement and call for support

As discussed yesterday in Nuremberg during our kick-off meeting of the German OpenChain Working Group, I would like to reach out for support regarding finalisation of a translation of the Open Chain Supplier Leaflet into German.

You can see the current state-of-work at
https://github.com/OCSpecGermanTranslation/OpenChain-SuppierLeaflet-GermanTranslation/blob/master/supplier-leaflet/de/OpenChain-GeneralGuideline-E-0608_DE.pdf

The layout is not yet as complete as in the original – I would like to finalise the design after having sorted out the final German text. Thus, in a first round, quality checking of the text would be a good point to start 🙂

My ‚request-for-contribution‘ to you, if you currently want to / can support: 
Could you please compare the current German translation draft to the English version at
https://github.com/OCSpecGermanTranslation/OpenChain-SuppierLeaflet-GermanTranslation/blob/master/supplier-leaflet/supplier-leaflet-1.0-en.pdf
and provide corrections and suggestions for improvement? Please feel free to direct any comments to my address Stefan.thanheiser@gmx.de.

(Should any of you want to go deeper: I ported the document from the proprietary Adobe format I found at Github (sorry, if there should have been any other format there -maybe I did not dig deep enough into the directory structure) to a format of the open source tool Scribus – why not use OSS tools when writing about OSS? ;-).
The “scribus source file” for the PDF can be found at
https://github.com/OCSpecGermanTranslation/OpenChain-SuppierLeaflet-GermanTranslation/blob/master/supplier-leaflet/de/OpenChain-GeneralGuideline-E-0608_DE.sla
and can be edited using Scribus v1.5.5.)

Thank you in advance for your support and best regards,
Stefan

Check Out The Other Translations

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/curriculum/tree/master/supplier-leaflet

Get these guides and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

The video minutes for the first meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group are now available. This meeting was kindly hosted by Siemens in Nuremberg and featured 38 people from 29 companies. A big thank you to everyone who made it happen.

The video minutes for our February 2020 First Monday call are now available.