For SaaS - the client-side software is the most common and compelling reason to use OpenChain. My only suggestion is to elaborate a bit more on "client-side software". I would propose adding "(e.g. br

In my opinion, the ISO 9001 standards are similar in that it is more of a process-oriented international standard. Based on this, I would lean towards working with ISO for more formal standardization.

Hi Shane, That all sounds good to me. Thanks, Gary

Greetings all, A few thoughts on the partner program criteria. Initially, I thought that 2 outreach events per year may be a bit of a high bar for smaller partner programs. After reading Shane's respo

Alexios, Thanks for the response. You raise some good points. I would like to separate the discussion into two parts - the structure of the conformance and the names we apply to the structure. For the

Thinking about this from the perspective of the conformance web application application, we could create a hierarchy of conformance. At the top level, a Company can support Open Chain. A company can h

Hi Shane, Thanks for the update. It sounds like you had a very productive face to face session. The conformance question of company vs. program vs. product is one of my top of mind questions - so I'm

Hi Shane, Thanks for the reference. I updated the issue in github with the reference to the Q&A: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Online-Self-Certification-Web-App/issues/11 Mark – feel free to ad

Greetings all, We decided to push out the release of the website until the end of January due to availability (I have been spending most of my cycles supporting a major update to the SPDX license list

Hi Shane, My vote is for option 2 “Deprecate this wiki and focus work on this mailing list and shared docs (Google Docs, etc)” with one modification. I would also add github issues as another place we

Hi Shane, Thanks for setting this up. Unfortunately, I have a conflict for the Europe Open Source Summit and will not be able to attend. I will share any thoughts prior to the meeting in the Pilot Par

Greetings all, Over the weekend I will be making a few updates to the self certification website. As we move from testing to deployment, I plan on removing all of the test data including any users who

Hi Shane and OpenChain team, Below is some ideas on answers to the questions on slide 83 based on information in the slide deck as well as a couple external sources: General guidelines developers can

Greetings all, Agree with Mark’s suggestion that this could also be leveraged by the certification system. I would be interested in participating and contributing to any machine readable format. Gary

Thanks Shane for the improvements! Gary

Greetings all, I just completed a draft list of new Q&A’s for OpenChain Conformance. These questions would only go on the public website once the online conformance check/questionnaire goes live. I pu

Thanks Shane for pointing this out. I just took a look and indeed there needs to be some work here. There is one question without a response: What is the objective of the of the of the OpenChain Confo

Greetings all, I just updated the openchain conformance website at http://openchaindeploy.m6rqmtrixp.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/ Thanks to the help from the Linux Foundation support team, we now h

Thanks Shane for the offer for assistance on the FAQ. I hope to get a structure setup in the next couple of days and some initial FAQ’s related to the website. Gary

Hi Kit, I’ll follow-up on this – thanks for reporting it. We’re switching over email from the sandbox environment to Linux Foundation and running into some configuration issues. I’ll send out a messag