The 6th OpenChain Japan Work Group meetingDate:

14:00 – 16:50

October 31, 2018

Venue: Toshiba / Lazona Kawasaki Toshiba Building meeting room
Attendees: (at the end of text)
Meeting memo:(1) OpenChain project update (S. Coughlan (OpenChain))

What we are doing is incredibly important.

Japan WG has a huge influence and let’s be brave and active in 2019!

(2) Our motivations to get involve into OpenChain (Y. Kobayashi (Toshiba))
It is important to get a trust as a result of proper OSS usage over software
supply chain.

A candidate method to get a trust is to trust each other like “web of trust” model(3) OpenChain and Japan Work Group reviews (N. Imada (Hitachi))A brief history of OpenChain

Objectives, three main activities: Specification, Conformance, Curriculum

Current activities of Japan Work Group

Sub Work Groups to create some outputs for the project

Cyber-space to share and revise up the outputs on GitHub

Mailing list to discussion or announce among participates(4) Sub WG1: Planning Sub WG status report (H. Fukuchi, A. Yamaoka (Sony))Started on September, with 15 members, held 3 F2F meetings

Arranging bi-monthly Work Group meeting, planning strategy of our activities

Discussing “business flow model” of OSS supply chain: ie. Consumer Electronics
or Information Technology industry

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Focusing on the necessity of the targeted curriculum: ie. for engineer, releaseinspector, management, sale person or procurement division

Q: How about the contribution methods for the communities?
A: Those are out of scope of this discussion. Some of them are discussed at TODO
group of Linux Foundation(5) Sub WG2: Proposal to publish a leaflet for upper supply chain (S. Ueda (Sony))Node analyzing of OSS supply chain: Community/Distributer/B2B/B2C…

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Red alarm at upper supply chain is influenced to sale person or layer seriously

If sale persons understand their situation, they solve issues ASAP

It is good to publish a leaflet for upper sales persons in Japanese/Asian Lang.

C: Red alarms are often remained around executive and not known by required
C: It is quite important to inform the understanding of OSS for upper stream(6) Sub WG3: Proposal to publish FAQ (Y. Ouchi (Fujitsu))
FAQ team will be publishing our outputs by CC0. Private attendee are welcome

We collaborate with “OSS license laboratory” in Japan

Discussing FAQs for beginners. We do not choose ambiguous Q/A

Using “Slack” tool for discussion. It is plan to have F2F a quarter of year

Q: How do you think the business IP when we want to put our company’s Q&A?
A: Cyboze published the guideline of employee’s OSS activities in last September.
It would be worth reading for people like us.
10 minutes break(7) Case study: “Question sheet about OSS usage” (S. Koizumi (Olympus))
Opened the formIntroduced the sample contract statement

Explained the scope of confirmation sheet

Q: Is it required to record another type of evidence ie. FOSSology output?
A: That case will cause another issue because of its cost to a vendor.
Q: How much did you get the answers of question sheets?
A: Almost vendors returned the answers.
C: It is better to specify an obligation of answering the sheet. Our company has atemplate of contract text with such obligation.
C: Bad case is occasionally in HW devices. I sometime ask a question: is this device
controlled by a processor? The answer might be yes.
C: We should go a long way to educate contact persons by e-learning or such like one(8) Proposal of our next plan and new Sub WGs (H. Fukuchi (Sony))
Prop. 1: Interface guideline of OSS license between companies

It is not a specification because it is out of scope of OpenChain. Guideline
will be good for this purpose.

Prop. 2: Special education curriculum for each role of business(9) Report: OpenChain workshop at ELC-E (S. Tokumoto (Fujitsu), S. Kato (Panasonic))Presented about FOSSology/SPDX activities by Fujitsu Computer TechnologyComments: need for easy SPDX format, want to share activities more often

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Proposal of leaflet sub WG is agreed with some German companies(10)

Short notice: KANSAI Open Forum (Oct. 11) (T. Dote (micware))(11)

Next meeting announcement and OCJ 2018 announcement

ClosingAttendee List:
OpenChain project
Shane Coughlan
AISIN AWKazuhiko Maeda
Makoto Hashimoto
NEC Solution Innovators
Shuichi Awaji
Naomichi ShimaOptinet
Shouken Kim
Olympus
Satoru Koizumi
Socionext
Kiyoshi Owada
SonySatoru Ueda
Norio Kobota
Hiroyuki Fukuchi
Atsuhiro Yamaoka
TUV SUD Japan
Kayoko Takanishi
Denso Ten
Yuuichi Kusakage
ToyotaMutsumi Abe
Morio Ooba
Tae Sugimura
Toyota Industries
Hiroyuki Goto
Nihon Synopsys
Masato Yoshii
Pioneer
Tooru Taima
Panasonic

Shinsuke Kato
HitachiNobuo Imada
Yuji Nomura
Fujitsu
Yoshiko Ouchi
Tadayuki Osaki
Takashi Oshiro
Takashi Harada
Yasuko Aoki
Haruki Iguchi
Yoshihiro Yasuda
Fujitsu Computer Technologies
Teppei AsabaMasaki Abe
Shunsuke Tokumoto
Yuuki Machida
Furukawa ElectricTomoo Kawamura
MicwareTomo Dote
Mitsubishi Electric
Hirotaka Motai
RicohTeruaki Ito
Renesas Electronics
Yoshiyuki ItoToshiba
Hiroshi Nozue
Yoshitake Kobayashi
Tomofumi Shimada
Kouki Hama
Toshiba Digital Solutions
Kaori Kitami
Chiori Ogasawara

Shinsuke Iuchi
Hisako Yoshida
Takashi Okayama
Toshiba Teli
Ken Nakajima
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