The OpenChain UK Work Group’s first meeting for 2021 is being held via Zoom on Thursday 25 March from 14:00 – 15:30 GMT.

The meeting will be an interactive session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss OpenChain adoption and best practice.

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 & Shane Coughlan
14:30: Any other news from people present
14:45: Open source compliance for containers by Armijn Hemel
15:15: Q&As
15:25: AOB
15:30: 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 March 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.