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Jul 25, 2023

Leveraging Profiles for License Compliance: Insights from SPDX Mini Summit

The SPDX Mini Summit, held at the Open Source Summit North America 2023, brought together industry experts to discuss the latest developments in open software at large. The focus of this year’s session though, was software supply chain. The SPDX mini summit was thus one of the highlights of the…

Jul 18, 2023

Providing Transparency at Software Development’s core process: build time.

The SPDX mini summit held at the prestigious Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada, brought together industry experts to discuss cutting-edge developments in software development. Among the standout presentations was the talk by Brandon Lum and Nisha Kumar, where they shed light on the transformative potential of…

Jun 27, 2023

Unraveling the World of Software Bill of Materials: A Brief Guide

by Jeff Shapiro & Gary O'Neall SPDX 3.0 Mini Summit OSSNA 2023 🇨🇦 blog post series This post is a bit of an oddball because, technically, this talk did not take place during the SPDX mini summit. It was part of Supply Chain Security Con hosted at OSSNA 2023. But…

Jun 19, 2023

SPDX Projects in Google Summer of Code 2023

Google Summer of Code Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international annual program, first held in 2005, that encourages and incentivizes newcomers to open source to spend their summer working on open source projects. It's organized by Google with the goal of encouraging more participation in open source development.…

Jun 14, 2023

Unpacking the SPDX 3.0 Tooling Mini Summit: A New Era of Compliance and Security

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) 3.0 Tooling Mini Summit recently hosted by the Linux Foundation at Open Source Summit North America stands as a significant milestone in the evolution of compliance and security in the realm of software supply chains. The event brought together an array of tooling operators,…