oshug-announce February 2018

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OSHCamp travel, accommodation and social.
by Andrew Back 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hello, Below you can find details of the venue, local accommodation and travel for OSHCamp 2018. We have our own room reserved at The Wig and Mitre (http://www.wigandmitre.com/) for the social on the evening of Sat 30th June, with details of the venue (pub!) for pre-OSHCamp drinks on Fri 29th to follow. The first few talks and workshops have been confirmed and just a reminder that the closing date for proposals is a little over a month away, 25th March. So if you would like to give a talk and/or host a workshop, please enter details via the form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pLyItcKRDYmegNXtAXRgpt21yOFXdWlBO_K6uu0LlB… Regards, Andrew // — Venue The event will be held at The Blue Room, The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln, LN1 3BU (map location https://goo.gl/maps/mdW1g8Pmk492). Lincoln is a city of two halves, the uphill and the downhill. The OSHUG venue is located uphill in the historic area of the city, home to the castle and cathedral, museums, pubs and a quaint shopping area The Bailgate. The downhill area of Lincoln is the shopping and transport hub, and also contains the Brayford Pool and most ‘night-life’. — Where to stay There are a variety of accommodation options within and around Lincoln from self-contained lets, guest houses, hotels, farms and camping. Visit the Visit Lincoln Website for lots of options, https://www.visitlincoln.com/stay/ Some nearby, reasonably priced accommodation includes: 202 Guest House, 07767 497 189 http://www.202guesthouse.co.uk/lincoln/rooms-and-accommodation.asp (0.5 miles from conference venue – mid hill location.) St Clements Old Rectory Apartments, 5 Self Catering Apartments and 1 Guest room available, (0)1522 538087 http://www.stayatstclements.co.uk/ (0.5 miles from conference - uphill location). 2 Night minimum. — Travel For downloadable PDF maps and guides of Lincoln including Bus Routes, Cycle Routes and a Train Map visit the Visit Lincoln website. * By Road >From the North Via the A15 (Hull) or the A46 (Grimsby) >From the South Via the A46 (Leicester, Nottingham, Newark) or the A1 and A15 (London, East Anglia) >From the East Via the A158 (Skegness) >From the West Via the A1 and A57 (Leeds, Worksop, Sheffield) * Lincoln Car Parks There is a large council run car park at The Lawn, chargeable on the day at the ticket machines. (Has 2 fast-charge spaces.) There are many other car parks in the area, and both up and downhill. https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/parking_in_lincoln/ Electric Charging points - https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/living-in-lincoln/transport-travel-and-parking/p… * By Train Lincoln Central railway station is located in the south of the city centre within easy walking distance of Lincoln High Street, the main shopping areas and the historic Cathedral Quarter. Direct connections are provided by East Midlands Trains, Virgin Trains East Coast and Northern Rail which operate daily services to Peterborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Doncaster and London. We would advise you to plan your trip in advance with an online route planner or by phone with TrainTracker 0871 200 49. More information on the train station and its services can be found here. You can find the station at: Lincoln Railway Station St Mary’s Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7EW The train station is fully accessible for wheelchairs. * By Bus There are good bus connections throughout Lincolnshire and Lincoln. Lincoln Bus Station: You can find the (brand new!) central bus station, near the train station and at: 18-20 Sincil Bank, Lincoln LN5 7ET For all timetable and route information please visit the Lincolnshire County Council website or call in to the Travel Shop at the bus station. Local operators include Stagecoach and PC Coaches. Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle: The Lincoln Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle is a useful local bus service which operates to link the Cathedral Quarter with the High Street, Cultural and Brayford Waterfront Quarters stopping at most key points across the city. The Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle runs 6 days a week throughout the year: Monday to Saturday: 9.10am – 2:47pm, 4:10pm – 5:22pm. Walk & Ride tickets can be purchased on the bus. Park and Ride: For details see: https://lincolnbus.co.uk/special-services/lincoln-park-and-ride -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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OSHUG 65 — Yanking the Chain: open source software compliance in the supply chain, Thursday 22nd March.
by Andrew Back 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Hello, In March we have another 1-day event, which this time will be dedicated to the topic of open source software compliance, featuring talks and workshops on topics such as OpenChain, SW360, Quartmermaster and FOSSology. There are additional sessions in the pipeline also and further details will be provided in due course. Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #65 — Yanking the Chain: Open Source Software Compliance in the Supply Chain On the 22 March 2018, 09:00 - 17:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/65 With the ever increasing complexity of embedded device software stacks, coupled with the proliferation of new mechanisms for distributing complex server software stacks, open source compliance has never been more important — or indeed more of a challenge. Fortunately, there are growing number of tools and methods at our disposal to support open source software compliance efforts. This 1-day event will feature talks and hands-on workshops covering a number of these, with insights into practical experiences and lessons learned. The preliminary programme can be found below and please note that further details will be published in due course as additional sessions are confirmed. —Talks - Introducing OpenChain OpenChain is a scalable, flexible compliance programme, developed by the Linux Foundation. It provides a great foundation for businesses of all sizes to adopt appropriate practices and procedures in place to control development and supply chain risks. Already adopted by companies like Qualcomm, Toyota and ARM, it's equally applicable to SMEs. * Andrew Katz is a lawyer and former programmer who advises extensively on free and open source software and other opens. He is head of the technology department at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique technology law firm, which is one of the 5 OpenChain pilot partners in the world, and has been involved in drafting many of the OpenChain materials. - Eclipse SW360 - Open Source Management with Open Source SW360 manages software components with their license compliance documentation in SPDX and allows for setting up bills-of-material to provide comprehensive documentation for products and projects. Organizations can use SW360 as a one-stop shop for sharing component information, tracking their usage in projects or products. This involves the handing of compliance information, but also, as an example, matching for vulnerabilities from data providers. As an EPL-1.0 licensed Open Source project, it is highly customizable, letting organizations keep their confidential product development data on premises, and prevents them from becoming dependent on a single vendor. This presentation shows briefly features and a walk through the application to demonstrate capabilities and use cases of SW360. * Michael C. Jaeger is one of the maintainers for the projects, FOSSology and SW360, both of which are in the area of license compliance and component management with open source software. At Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany, Michael manages the Siemens contributions to SW360 and FOSSology. Michael is a certified software architect and received a German PhD degree from the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at TU Berlin. - How License Compliance Engineering Can be Simplified When people are confronted with license compliance for the first time it feels overwhelming because there are many aspects to it: license scanning of hundreds of thousands of files, complete and corresponding source code, derivative works and code clone detection, and so on. Clients often say that they simply do not know where to start. However, experience demonstrates that license compliance does not need to be overly complicated, as there are short-cuts that can be taken and have zero risk, but that will vastly speed up compliance processes. This talk will highlight a few best practices learned from compliance work with clients and explain how information from upstream projects can be used to make the license compliance processes quicker, predictable and more standardised. * Armijn Hemel, MSc, is an expert in open source license compliance engineering. From 2005-2012 he helped enforce the GPL license in Germany several hundred times as part of the coreteam of gpl-violations.org. Since then he has assisted companies to come into compliance (including in recent troll cases in Germany) and is actively involved in advancing the field of compliance by exploring new topics and tooling. - Compliance Tooling using Build Time Analysis The Quartermaster project aims at building industry standard tooling that supports the open source license compliance workflow. It's open source workflow engine integrates existing scanning and reporting tools, and integrates into continuous integration/development processes. It offers API endpoints against which toolmakers, communities and service providers can integrate their products, while maintaining an open source and open data model for the elemental toolchain. The presentation will explore a number of key findings from the development of Quartermaster so far. For example, that focusing on whole source packages alone to identify and convey license information may be insufficient, and that the product build process may be the most suitable time to create compliance documentation. The presentation will introduce the Quartermaster project, the novel approach it takes on implementing open source compliance tooling, and how the lessons learned from the prototype influenced the Quartermaster toolchain architecture. * Mirko Boehm is a Free Software and Open Source contributor, primarily as a software developer and speaker. He is the founder of the Quartermaster project, and has been a contributor to major Open Source projects including the KDE Desktop since 1997, including several years on the KDE e.V. Board. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher on Free Software and Open Source at the Technical University of Berlin, a fellowship representative in the FSFE general assembly and a Qt-certified specialist and trainer. The Open Invention Network protects the Open Source ecosystem by acquiring patents and licensing them royalty free to all participants. As director for the Linux system definition, Mirko is responsible for the technical scope that defines the field of use of the patent non-aggression agreements. As founder and CEO of Endocode, an employee-owned, shareholder company based in Berlin, Germany providing professional IT services with a focus on Open Source technologies, Mirko specialises in consulting to and mentoring startups and medium to large businesses. His areas of expertise include complex software development endeavours, the use of Open Source products and methods in organisations, and technology related issues of business strategy and intellectual property. — Workshops - Using FOSSology - License Analysis Hands On FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit, you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and Web user interface provide you with user interface and functionality to analyse the licensing situation of open source software. * Hosted by: Michael C. Jaeger. Note: Please aim to arrive by 08:45 as the workshop will start at 09:00 prompt. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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