Hi all! A perhaps underused part of the OpenChain Project are the conformance badges we provide for organizations to show that they have an OpenChain Standard-Related Program. These badges have now be

As per Marc-Etienne, Chair of Telco WG: The OpenChain Telco Work Group has created a draft document of the "OpenChain Telco SBOM specification." The document is available at https://github.com/OpenCha

Full details:https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2023/05/15/world-of-open-source-global-spotlight Quick overview: Are you familiar with open source and your organization’s use of open source softwar

As those follow recent news will know, we published a page on Wikipedia recently and it was quickly translated into French and German. Now, thanks to Lucrezia Berto and Marc Galceran, the Spanish vers

Get all the details here: https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2023/05/15/korea-wg-meeting-18 As always, all user companies welcome.

CARIAD, the wholly-owned division of VW Group creating advanced software for future vehicles, has joined the Governing Board of the OpenChain Project as a Platinum Member. Helio Chissini de Castro, wh

Dear all Due to an intercontinental flight change, I will not be able to attend our monthly North America / Asia meeting today. However, I have prepared our slides with the issues highlighted, direct

You can catch the recording of our latest OpenChain Education Work Group meeting below. Work was focused on the supplier education leaflet. We are getting close to an updated release version and your

The next meeting of the workgroup will be occurring on the 7th of June. Martin has kindly offered to host us at First Light Fusion in their office in Yarnton, just outside Oxford. We’ll be starting th

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, was invited to participate in the four part NLnet webinar series The Ins and Outs of Open Software Supply Chain Management. Our talk was about ISO standards

As always, this is where we are editing the next generation versions of our license compliance and security assurance specifications. Mary Hardy (OpenChain board representative from Microsoft) kindly

Dear all A reminder that the education work group has a call today at 09:00 PDT. Join here: https://zoom.us/j/4377592799 Work will be focused on the supplier education leaflet: https://docs.google.com

The OpenChain Project held a mini-summit adjacent to the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America. Check out our opening keynote for some substantial data points on our project, our standards

Hi Stephen, all My apologies for replying a little slowly. I was en-route to Vancouver from Japan. The brown bag lunch was cancelled due to a low number of attendees from our board (most people are gr

Thank you, Nathan and Shane. We will review the draft. Do you have a due date for the review? -- Hiro Fukuchi (Hiroyuki.fukuchi@...) Sony

Nathan has been busy working on the next generation of the Supplier Education leaflet. Originally from the OpenChain Japan Work Group, this document has spread far and wide over time. Check out the cu

The OpenChain Automation Work Group holds meetings on a bi-weekly schedule. These are designed to allow anyone with an interest in open source tooling for open source automation and tooling to learn m

Dear all A reminder that the next OpenChain North America / Europe monthly meeting takes place on Tuesday the 2nd of May at 09:00 PDT (18:00 CEST). Calendar invitation attached. On the day, you can di

Last chance to help with the OpenChain Industry Survey 2023 before we close it at the end of April: https://forms.gle/uHdcM7YRMtAzCwhCA All replies assist a great deal in understanding the market. Ple

Dr. Andreas Kotulla over at BitSea has flagged some interesting concerns when using ChatGPT to talk about open source licenses. While a conversation about open source licenses in China correctly ident