GSOC/GSOC Application - Revision history

JackM at 18:34, 16 February 2017

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JackM at 18:32, 16 February 2017

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JackM: Created page with "= Google Summer of Code Application = This information can be used to create the application. == Your Details == SPDX is an all volunteer community committed to improving..."

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Created page with "= Google Summer of Code Application = This information can be used to create the application. == Your Details == SPDX is an all volunteer community committed to improving..."

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= Google Summer of Code Application =

This information can be used to create the application.

== Your Details ==

SPDX is an all volunteer community committed to improving the awareness, standards and tools for open source compliance. By engaging students, we will increase the awareness of open source compliance for future software professionals. We would also like to engage students in a collaborative open source project and potentially keep them engaged after the project completes. It would be valuable to extend the compliance tools available for the open source community and for commercial software companies.

== How will you keep mentors engaged with students ==

Three of our mentors have had experience with GSoC and have been very engaged in the past projects. We plan on having regular communications with the mentors in our mailing lists as well as in our weekly calls. Each of our mentors will have a back-up mentor to help support the mentoring activities and provide continuing engagement if the mentor is unavailable for any reason.

== How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects? ==

The mentors will be primarily responsible for the student progress, with the back-up mentor providing support. We will be tracking progress in our weekly tech calls and discuss any issues when needed.

== How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC? ==

We will involve the students in our standard communications (email distribution lists and weekly calls), provide a forum for them to communicate their project and results. Once significant milestones have been achieved, we will feature their results on the spdx.org website.

== How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC? ==

We will encourage them to continue to contribute and maintain ongoing dialog through 1:1 emails from the mentors, inclusion in the SPDX mailing lists, and encouraging them to participate in the tech subgroup calls.

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	Our community consists of a broad range of individuals from foundations, open source communities, linux distributors and business professionals working together with a common goal. While compliance may not always seem exciting we believe they will gain exposure to some of the legal and business aspects of working with open source licensing as well. In addition, the tooling and problems we face are complex and should provide a good technical challenge for the student.		Our community consists of a broad range of individuals from foundations, open source communities, linux distributors and business professionals working together with a common goal. While compliance may not always seem exciting we believe they will gain exposure to some of the legal and business aspects of working with open source licensing as well. In addition, the tooling and problems we face are complex and should provide a good technical challenge for the student.
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		+	= Organization Profile =
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		+	Organization Profile
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		+	Tagline
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		+	Promoting open source compliance through standard communication of SW licenses.
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		+	Short Description
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		+	The Software Package Data ExchangeR (SPDXR) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.
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		+	Long Description
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		+	Our Mission
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		+	Develop and promote adoption of a specification to enable any party in a software supply chain, from the original author to the final end user, to accurately communicate the licensing information for any piece of copyrightable material that such party may create, alter, combine, pass on, or receive, and to make such information available in a consistent, understandable, and re-usable fashion, with the aim of facilitating license and other policy compliance.
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		+	Our Vision
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		+	The vision of SPDX is achieve license compliance with minimal cost across the supply chain. Ideally, upstream component developers begin the process by supplying SPDX flies as part of their downloads. Users of those components therefore have a starting point for the SPDX files they create for their "customers," and so on. If everything is working properly, the provenance of each piece of code is researched and documented only once during its journey through a supply chain, and that information is passed on in parallel with the code in the SPDX format.
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		+	Execution
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		+	Development of SPDX is run somewhat like an open source project: Those that participate influence. Decisions tend to be made by consensus. The spec itself is written by a technical team with input and support from business and legal teams. Although much of the the initial focus was on Linux and the project is under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, the strategy from the outset has been much broader to be applicable to anything open source. To accommodate a range of needs, SPDX can be implemented in XML or tag-value formats.
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		+	The SPDX "IP" is all housed on this site. Most of that is embodied in the spec itself, but we have developed a number of separate assets that complement the specification, including a standard license list, implementation guidelines and the SPDX compatible tools.
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		+	Primary Open Source License
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		+	Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
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		+	Organization Category
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		+	languages
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		+	Technology Tags
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		+	rdf, python, java, github, c
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		+	Topic Tags
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		+	compliance, opensource, licensing
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		+	Ideas List
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		+	http://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas
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		+	Application Instructions
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		+	Please review the requirements described in the project ideas page at http://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas. Submit your proposals using the GSoC website to the mentor from the ideas page or feel free to contact them directly with questions.
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		+	Proposal Tags
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		+	workgroup tools, github integration, specification projects
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		+	Chat
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		+	Mailing List
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		+	https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
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		+	Contact Email
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		+	spdx-tech@lists.spdx.org
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		+	Google+ URL
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		+	Twitter URL
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		+	Blog URL

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 This information can be used to create the application.
-== Your Details ==
+= Organization Information =
 SPDX is an all volunteer community committed to improving the awareness, standards and tools for open source compliance. By engaging students, we will increase the awareness of open source compliance for future software professionals. We would also like to engage students in a collaborative open source project and potentially keep them engaged after the project completes. It would be valuable to extend the compliance tools available for the open source community and for commercial software companies.
-Three of our mentors have had experience with GSoC and have been very engaged in the past projects. We plan on having regular communications with the mentors in our mailing lists as well as in our weekly calls. Each of our mentors will have a back-up mentor to help support the mentoring activities and provide continuing engagement if the mentor is unavailable for any reason.
+How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?
-== How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects? ==
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-== How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC? ==
+How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?
 We will involve the students in our standard communications (email distribution lists and weekly calls), provide a forum for them to communicate their project and results. Once significant milestones have been achieved, we will feature their results on the spdx.org website.
-We will encourage them to continue to contribute and maintain ongoing dialog through 1:1 emails from the mentors, inclusion in the SPDX mailing lists, and encouraging them to participate in the tech subgroup calls.
+How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC?