Oliver Fendt
Oliver Fendt is Senior Manager Open Source Software and governance owner of the topic Open Source Software (OSS) and other 3rd party software at Siemens. In this role he is heading the Open Source Task Force, which is a company wide board of experts, who oversee the license compliant use of OSS in products, solutions and services. Oliver has more than 18 years experience in open source software and its license condition and how to comply to the different licenses. During this time he kicked off several projects and initiatives, further he developed different trainings about OSS and OSS license compliance. Currently he is heading the Reference Tooling Work Group of the OpenChain project.
Session
The well-known OpenChain project launched in Sept 2019 a Tooling Group. The objective of this group is to realize a turn-key Open Source toolchain for Open Source Compliance, which is / can be easily integrated in the software development CI/CD pipelines. The Tooling Group uses open source principles to accomplish this, creating a meritocracy producing real world solutions for real world challenges, and sharing these results with all interested parties. The presentation gives an overview of the Tooling group its objectives, the areas of focus, the current state and future plans.