The OpenChain Project had a set of introduction slides to help people understand and support our activities. The latest version - with renewed membership overview and easier narrative slow - is now available in PDF, PPTX and ODP formats.

1. Great Open Source Compliance For Everyone
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7. Compliance – A gateway to access
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8. Let’s provide business context
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9. Companies use open source
and get billions of dollars of code
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10. Open source code was created by other people
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11. How we respect their rights?
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12. How do we meet our legal requirements?
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13. The OpenChain Specification defines the requirements
for a quality compliance program.
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Training
Policy
Process
Inbound Outbound

15. Companies have the flexibility to decide the content of
each specific process, policies and training.
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16. The goal is to build trust by having organizations
conformant with the OpenChain Specification.
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17. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to show
they meet these requirements.
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19. If a company can answer “Yes” to each question they
are OpenChain Conformant.
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20. The OpenChain Curriculum provides reference open
source processes and solutions.
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23. Work Teams supporting OpenChain:
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1.Specification - Chaired by Mark Gisi (Wind River)
1.Conformance - Chaired by Miriam Ballhausen (SCA)
1.Curriculum - Chaired by Alexios Zavros (Intel)
1.Onboarding - Chaired by Nathan Kumagai (Qualcomm)

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25. Progress in 2018
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1. International Partners - from law firms to certification authorities
• Example: Moorcrofts - UK
• Example: TÜV SÜD - Germany and Japan
2. Significant New Board Members
• Example: Toshiba, Facebook, Google, Uber (more announcements shortly)
3. Significant New Community Members
• Example: Microsoft
• Example: Panasonic
4. A move towards formal standardization
• Most likely PAS process for ISO - Launch ETA Q1 2020

26. Be part of this
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Join the community:
https://www.openchainproject.org/community
Self-certify your organization:
https://certification.openchainproject.org

27. Contact: coughlan@linux.com
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