OpenChain Monthly North America / Europe Call - 2024-02-06

1. OpenChain Monthly
Meeting
2024-02-06

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3. Regular Agenda
• News
• Work on standards and core material
• Work on reference and supporting material
• Any other business
• Close of meeting

4. News

5. OpenChain Elections – Rationale and Method
Continuing our project-wide evolution to greater sustainability via elections, the
OpenChain Governing Board is formally considering who should be appointed by the
board for the position of Chairperson in various working groups for the 2024/2025
period, and invites the broader OpenChain community to provide their perspective.
In this process, the broader OpenChain community will have nominees proposed and
voted on to provide a recommendation. That recommendation will be passed to the
OpenChain Governing Board for review, approval and ratification at their next
meeting.
Naturally we welcome the continuity of existing chairs. This election process is simply
intended to formalize how we manage work groups.

6. OpenChain Elections - Status
Elections Completed in January:
● Specification Work Group:
○ Chris Wood, Lockheed Martin
● Education Work Group:
○ Andrew Katz, Orcro
Elections Underway in February:
● Telco Work Group
○ Key date: nominations between 14th and 21st of February 2024.
○ Key date: voting between 22nd and 28th of February 2024.

7. Recent Calls:
● North America / Europe
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2024/01/24/openchain-ai-study-group-
north-america-europe-2024-01-23
● Europe / Asia
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2024/02/05/openchain-ai-study-group-
europe-asia-2024-02-01
Mailing list to join in:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai
AI Study Group - Context

8. We just had a meeting with the following agenda, and the recording will be available in the next
few days:
• Recap of discussion so far
• Scope – how to build trust in the open source AI supply chain
• What are the “compliance artifacts”?
• How do we know they can be trusted?
• Discuss use cases
• Inbound
• Deployment internally
• Hosting externally
• Distributing externally
Mailing list to join in:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai
AI Study Group - Today

9. Work on standards and core material

10. The ISO Standards – Open Issues
Security:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues
Licensing:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/License-Compliance-Specification/issues

11. Re-Visiting a Proposal - Contribution
GitHub:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Contribution-Process-Specification
This is a *very* early discussion, and should be understood in the context of the issues
rather than any draft material being worked on per se. The open issues are here:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Contribution-Process-Specification/issues
The *early* draft document for brainstorming is here:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Contribution-Process-
Specification/blob/main/1.0/en/0.1.md

12. Work on reference and supporting
material

13. OpenChain Education Work Group
OpenChain Reference Training Slides Material Update:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Csq_ztwLMLXcw4a-
5uhWRiDhAoDHH2yaAZQeG_ARdw/edit
Finishing this week (2024-02-08 @ 09:00 PST)
Mailing list: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/education

14. OpenChain Legal Work Group - Outcome
A recent meeting of the OpenChain Legal Work Group covered Maturity Models:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2024/01/29/openchain-legal-work-group-
2024-01-17
As an outcome of this discussion, reference material related to maturity models
will be shared with the Education Work Group.

15. Any other business

16. Close of meeting

17. See you next time!