February 27, 2026 — OIN announces Shane Coughlan — whom for the last 16 years has been highly placed in OpenForum Europe, a Brussels‑based not‑for‑profit and independent think tank focusing on digital policy & promoting openness in technologies. For the past 8 years, he’s been working with the enterprise-focused Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, a critical initiative that defines and maintains standards for Open Source license compliance programs, which is published as the OpenChain Specification. FOSS FORCE reports.

