I missed Japanese Golden Week (1st May~) due to a US business trip. I will be taking next week off instead. Please expect some delays with email :)

The OpenChain Project will hold its 42nd webinar on the 30th of May at 14:00 UTC. Our special guest will be Phil Odence from Synopsis with a deep dive into Quantifying Open Source Risk in M&A. This ev

Dear OpenChain community, First of all, thanks to everyone who already participated in my scientific study on the role of OSS compliance in the software supply chain! All the others I want to cordiall

Hi All, I have been a bit involved with the mindmap project. At the moment Thomas Steenbergen is working on one bigger improvement as he is adding many new nodes to the mindmap, so I would say that it

Dear Global Community :) Our industry survey has had some great replies. However, we would like to get some more before closing the survey at the end of May. Our goal is to have a better understanding

Due to the late release of Webinar 41 (OSPO MindMaps!), we will not be having our regular bi-weekly webinar this week. Fear not! It is coming shortly and will have another spin from another perspectiv

A little late (apologies) we are releasing Webinar #41. This is more than a recording. Ana over at TODO Group is building an OSPO MindMap and is actively seeking collaborators. It sounds like a job fo

External Blog: Open Source License Compliance with OpenChain Ulrike Fempel from SAP has a few thoughts to share. https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2022/05/12/external-blog-open-source-license-comp

The OpenChain M&A Summit 2022 provides an extraordinarily detailed dive into how open source - and standards like OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 - play a pivotal part in modern Mergers and Acquisitions. Five

Greetings all! I will be in San Francisco and San Diego shortly. If you are around I would love to get together. San Francisco: May 8th to 12th San Diego: 12th to 14th Let me know ;) It has been too l

Dear OpenChain Community It was an exceptionally quiet week for the OpenChain Project. I would like to explain why and also chart our course for the rest of this month. Last week, during the Linux Fou

Dear OpenChain community, My name is Juliane Wissel and I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). I am inviting you to take part in a scientific study on the role

You have been invited to the following event. OpenChain M&A Summit When Thu Apr 28 23:00 – Fri Apr 29, 2022 02:00 Japan Standard Time Where RSVP: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PZYg-Mm6TN2OOx-8ba

This is a question from the OpenChain Japan Work Group to our dear friends who speak Chinese, Korean or German. In Japan there is a convenient website with reference translations of the OSI open sourc

Dear Shane, I understand that you are seeking input w.r.t. participation of other member-organisations in the Open Chain Project. For ca. 8 years I have been a member of the Board of Directors, Secret

The OpenChain M&A Summit 2022 brings together key law firms and service providers helping clients with M&A. You will come away from this event with a clearer understanding of global trends around open

What better way to celebrate our 1,000 news post on the OpenChain website than to see what other people are saying about us? Check out this post by Dan Whiting over on the official LF blog: https://ww

From SAP: Join us on April 26th at 3:00 pm CEST/1:00 pm UTC/9:00 am EDT/10:00 pm JST for a webinar with Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager at the Linux Foundation, and Peter Giese, Head of the

A reminder that our regular bi-weekly call takes place at 14:00 UTC today. Today’s call will be a relatively short overview of current developments and a space to raise other items of interest. https:

We have a major webinar coming with SAP. This will be an excellent opportunity to hear from Peter Giese, Head of the SAP Open Source Program Office, about how SAP decided to become and implemented who