The third OpenChain UK Work Group meeting is being held via Zoom on Thursday 3 December from 14:00 – 16:00 GMT.

The meeting will be an interactive session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions about OpenChain adoption, which hopefully by the date of the meeting will have been released as an official ISO standard. There will also be presentations from OpenChain members, sharing their experiences and the practical steps and aspects they adopted, along with the lessons they have learnt from their approach to conformance.

Agenda

We have a full agenda planned with a fantastic line-up of speakers:

14:00 Welcome and introduction by Andrew Katz (Orcro) & Sami Atabani (Arm)
14:05 News and Updates by Andrew Katz & Sami Atabani

• The progress of the ISO
• Introducing the Code of Conduct
• Feedback from the Open Compliance Summit
• Reports from other groups:

1. Tooling Group
2. Training
3. International Groups
4. Specification

• Any other news from people present

14:30 The European Open Source Strategy, overview and highlights discussion chaired by Andrew Katz
14:50 The Role of the OSPO: Open Source and Comcast by Nithya Ruff
15:10 The ARM OSPO: experiences and insights by Sami Atabani
15:30 OSPO Q&A and discussion chaired by by Sami Atabani
15:50 AOB
16:00 Thank you and Goodbye

OpenChain is a project of the Linux Foundation which brings established governance principles to the software supply chain. It adopts best-practice from other compliance areas and maps them to software procurement, giving businesses a clear path to minimising infringement risk in procuring, developing and deploying software, with particular emphasis on use and re-use of free and open source software (“FOSS”) components. The result is that open source licence compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for all participants in the software supply chain.

Bookings for the December meeting are now open and can be made via the Eventbrite booking form.

The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.

To join the OpenChain UK Work Group visit: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg and subscribe to the list to receive future details about the bi-monthly meetings and to sync and share information across all aspects of open source compliance. More information about the group can be found on its draft terms of reference document: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg/files.