OSS + ELC EU 2026

One year ago, we created the OpenChain Meridian 22 Work Group for Central and Eastern Europe. In this year, our community has grown to include members from Poland, Hungary, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and other countries. We promoted OpenChain and our WG formally at open source and security events in Serbia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, and informally in other parts of Europe and the world. We work in close collaboration with other open source communities to organize free events across Europe.

This talk is a retrospective on this past year of expanding the OpenChain community in the region. We will showcase the interesting topics we focus on in our WG, and share the lessons we learned along the way. We would like to use the talk to promote the WG locally.

The first part of the talk will focus on the journey: how we launched the OpenChain Meridian 22 WG, our promotion activities, and the topics we have tackled so far.

The second second part, about the takeaways: what makes this region special, why we received attention mostly from security communities, and other such curiosities.

The last part will be an overview of the co-located event we are organizing with the community.