The OpenChain Korea Work Group held its 3rd meeting at the SK Telecom offices in Seoul. As usual we had a mix of people from consumer electronics, automotive and telecommunication companies present.
Review the Keynote Slides
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the launch of a series of interviews about the people behind our work. While open source is mostly about software, and governance is mostly about licenses, it is also the story of thousands of individuals collaborating. We hope these interviews with inform and inspire our readers, and encourage more people to participate in open source and OpenChain.
Kayoko Takanishi from TUV SUD has kindly agreed to be our first featured community figure.
Read Our First Interview Now
The latest draft of the next version of OpenChain Specification can be found here:
Our objective is to make only minor clarification changes over version 2.0 while we wait for ISO adoption (currently in progress). We discussed a half dozen items posted on the specification issue list at the Open Source Summit, North American F2F OpenChain meeting.
Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.
After discussing the various open issues we decided to make only one minor change:
Because the terms “Software Staff” and “Program Participants” where used interchangeable in the spec, it was decided to replace each use of “Software Staff” with “Program Participants” which is more consistent with ISO terminology.
Coming Next
We will continue to accept feedback for ISO version 2.1 up through October 31st 2019. We will have one more F2F meeting at the Open Source Summit, Europe in October. We will finalize the ISO 2.1 version in November 2019. We will then embark on the next major revision of the specification starting December 1st 2019.
Your Feedback is Welcome Via
- the Mailing list: Openchain-specification@lists.linuxfoundation.org;
- OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
- attending the bi-monthly OpenChain calls;
- attending the F2F OpenChain meeting at the Open Source Summit, Europe; or
- replying to Mark Gisi directly if you wish to remain anonymous (mark.gisi@windiver.com)
On August 29th 2019 the OpenChain Project was featured in a blog post by Mark Gisi about how OpenChain certification aids open-source transparency for identifying security vulnerabilities.
Read the Article here:
Newsletter – Issue 28 – August 2019
Arm and Western Digital Corporation, Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project and key participants in the global supply chain, today announce conformance with the OpenChain Specification. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Platinum Member and founding contributor of the OpenChain Project, today announces expanded conformance to the latest version of the OpenChain Specification.
- you can read more here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/08/15/arm-wdc-and-qualcomm-announce-openchain-conformance-activities
OpenChain @ Partners
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that PwC Germany is the latest OpenChain Partner organization. The OpenChain Project has a diverse, global partner network that is expanding rapidly across multiple continents. This supports our mission to ensure every organization of every size can adopt our industry standard.
OpenChain @ Case Studies
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our latest case study. This case study explains how third party certification works in the context of the OpenChain Project. This optional process, involving an audit of conformance by a third party, can be used by companies that want to obtain a formal certificate of conformance to our industry standard.
- Read more here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/08/23/openchain-case-study-third-party-certification
OpenChain @ In The News
On August 29th 2019 the OpenChain Project was featured in a blog post by Mark Gisi about how OpenChain certification aids open-source transparency for identifying security vulnerabilities.
OpenChain @ Events
OpenChain @ TechExeter Conference on 11th Sept 2019
Paul McAdam, Director at Source Code Control, will be hosting a workshop exploring the Equifax scandal. This hack resulted in costing more than $4bn yet was started by a failure to manage a single Open Source component.
OpenChain Talk Announced for Open Source Summit Europe – 29th October
Fukuchi San from Sony will be sharing ‘Experiences Building a Local Open Source Community via the OpenChain Project’ on Tuesday, October 29 @ 11:30 during Open Source Summit Europe.
OpenChain Actively Promoted @ COSCUP Taiwan Thanks to MOXA – 17-18 August
SZ Lin and his colleagues at MOXA will actively promoting the OpenChain Project via their sponsorship and their physical presence at the Taiwanese COSCUP Conference on the 17th and 18th of August.
OpenChain @ TechMatrix Open Source Seminar Tokyo – 4th September
OpenChain will be featured at the forthcoming TechMatrix Seminar on open source compliance to be held in Tokyo on the 4th of September. This event will include case studies from Olympus, FOSSID and TechMatrix.
Open Source Compliance Workshop Taipei 2019
On Friday the 27th of September the OpenChain Project, Open Culture Foundation and OSLN.tw will host an open source compliance workshop in the heart of Taipei. This event will focus on practical business solutions to open source compliance management. All parties are welcome to attend.
OpenChain @ Work Groups
The outcomes of the 10th meeting of the OpenChain Japan Work Group on the 16th of July are now available. We had 84 participants from 44 companies present, including our special guest SZ Lin from MOXA, Taiwan.
The OpenChain Project regular First Monday call video minutes are now available:
The OpenChain Japan Work Group has announced the August Meeting Schedule. Four Sub-Groups will convene to discuss milestones. Outcomes will be presented at the 11th OpenChain Japan Work Group event on September 19th at the Olympus offices. These meetings will be held in Japanese and everyone is welcome to join.
The OpenChain Korea Work Group has announced details of their forthcoming third meeting on Wednesday the 4th of September 2019. It will take place from 3pm in the B1 meeting room on the 19th floor of SK T Tower. This meeting will be held in Korean. All parties from open source user companies are welcome to attend.
The OpenChain Japan Work Group has announced the latest participation metrics. The recent meeting #10 hosted by Fujitsu had 84 individuals from 44 companies in attendance, marking our largest main event yet. Meanwhile, the OpenChain Japan mailing list continues to grow, with 159 participants from 68 companies subscribed. All parties are welcome to join the OpenChain Japan Work Group mailing lists and meetings.
The OpenChain Project will host a workshop on the 20th of August adjacent to the Linux Foundation Legal Summit and Open Source Summit North America.
The OpenChain China Work Group confirmed their first meeting. It will be held on 25th of September @ Huawei in Shenzhen
Mishi Choudhary & Associates, the India law firm partner of OpenChain Project, is hosting the first OpenChain India Working Group Meet-Up in Bengaluru on September 7, 2019.
On the 13th of August the OpenChain Tooling Work Group held their first meeting.
- Here are the outcomes:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/08/19/openchain-tooling-work-group-meeting-1-outcomes-september-18th-2019
The OpenChain Korea Work Group has announced details of their forthcoming third meeting on 4th of September 2019. It will take place from 3pm at Korea Telecom in Seoul.
OpenChain @ Materials and Case Studies
Great Open Source Compliance For Everyone – Version 11 are introduction slides for the OpenChain Project with extensive speaker notes. They are intended to both provide context for the OpenChain industry standard and to enable anyone to help share the purpose, value and outcomes of the project and community.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of our latest case study. This case study explains how third party certification works in the context of the OpenChain Project. This optional process, involving an audit of conformance by a third party, can be used by companies that want to obtain a formal certificate of conformance to our industry standard.
Read the Case Study Online
Download the Case Study as a PDF
The OpenChain Korea Work Group has announced details of their forthcoming third meeting on 4th of September 2019. It will take place from 3pm at Korea Telecom in Seoul.
Schedule
◾ Time: 2019-09-04 (Wed) 3:00 pm ~
◾ Venue: B1 meeting room on the 19th floor of SK T Tower (https://goo.gl/maps/7MHev7Ja6GXZ1EMH8)
◾ https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2019/08/06/openchain-korea-work-group-announces-third-meetingAgenda
◾ OpenChain talk (Linux Foundation Shane Coughlan)
◾ SK텔레콤 T-hub 시스템 (전사 개발자 Community) 소개 (SK텔레콤 ICT기술센터 김상기, 유광엽)
◾ 오픈소스 소프트웨어 라이선스 검증기 (엔씨소프트 한지호) – 발표 30분 + 논의
◾ OpenChain 따라잡기 (LG전자 장학성) – 발표 10분 + 논의
More Information about the Korean Work Group
The fifth and sixth meetings have been announced for March and June 2020. Kakao and NCSoft will be hosting these.
The OpenChain Project had a great workshop at the Open Source Summit North America on 20th of August 2019.
The minutes are below. The slides discussed during the meeting are presented here as well for reference.
Meeting Minutes of Kickoff meeting open source tooling for open source compliance work group
Date / Time 13th of August 0900-10:00 am and 06:00-07:00 pm
Agenda:
1. introduction and expectations All
2. Vision All
3. Introduction of the existing work Oliver
4. Next steps All
5. Fixed meeting dates/times Oliver
2. Expectations regarding the work results (condensed list):
* Working together in an open, transparent, honest way
* Friendly collaboration without hidden agenda
Oliver presented his long term vision of an integrated toolchain covering the “supporting processes – like OSS – contribution process, ECC classification, security vulnerability management, OSS-selection process, OSS-compliance process”. He asked about opinions on that view. Participants expressed that the long term vision makes sense.
The big picture of an integrated OSS Compliance toolchain was presented and explained. Based on this the work areas were named
* Identify the functional blocks required
* Identify the workflows
* Identify the required data and data flows
* Implement provide the needed APIs (as contributions)
* Provide the glue Code
* Provide easy to deploy building blocks
* Documentation
* Spread the word
All participants agreed on a regular meeting interval of
Date: 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month
Time: 0900-10:00 am and 06:00-07:00 pm German time
Oliver will send the invitations
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that PwC Germany is the latest OpenChain Partner organization. The OpenChain Project has a diverse, global partner network that is expanding rapidly across multiple continents. This supports our mission to ensure every organization of every size can adopt our industry standard.
While many companies want to use our free reference material and self-certification service, other companies want to collaborate with law firms, consultancies and certification authorities. We are fortunate to work with some of the very best.
How It Works
OpenChain Partners are law firms, consultancies and certification authorities with experience in open source and engagement with the OpenChain Project community.
Users can approach any of the partners listed on our website with an expectation of excellent service provision. We seek partners with a focus on excellence and a positive, thoughtful approach focused on building long-term relationships.
Learn More
You can learn more by contacting Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, at coughlan@linux.com.
