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* Attendance: 14
* Lead by Phil Odence

* Minutes of March meeting approved

== Special Guest Star - Kris Reeves ==

* Background
** Working with the team over the past few months
** Focused on improving templates and matching process
** Has been building tools for his NodeJS environment to discover licenses to meet client needs
** Created a tool that makes a binary decision about whether there are any problematic licenses, yes or no
** Wasn’t working well initially because of “naive” approach in the package he was using Node License Finder
** Found 3 packages that were trying to do this
*** Node Packet Manager used SPDX short names
*** Which got Kris onto SPDX
*** Tool was not using matching guidelines properly
** So Kris got onto trying to trying to fix
* SPDX Work
** Felt there needed to be some changes
** Started submitted bug reports
** Conclusion:
*** The templates were the right place to address issues he was running into
*** Developed tool in parallel to working on:
**** More Mark Up
***** A big jump
***** XML files that contain all info about a license
***** Obsoleting spreadsheet
**** Better Mark Up
***** XML is familiar and available
***** Self-contained
***** Better to have the matching info in the data for tool consistency
**** Easier Contribution
***** Separate GIt repo, bugzilla, etc system make contribution awkward
***** Feels GitHub web interface streamlines all that, so advocating we migrate in that direction
*** Ideally all this reduces workload on Jilayne
*** Status
**** Has taken passes at converting licenses and submitted pull request
**** Still some issues he’ll work on this weekend.
**** Getting very close

== Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary ==

* Specification Update:
** Good Collab Summit
*** Office hours talk kicked off with some good brainstorming on aggregating SPDX docs
**** Package referring to other packages and best ways to refer to and store relationships
*** Gary and Kris’ prevention was well received.
*** Spec review went very well
**** Bill and Yev are looking at adding some new classes
**** Helpful input from Robin Gandi
*** Looking for wider feedback in May and new release in June.
**** Possible August plug fest
*** FOSSology team did a talk that included SPDX
* This week’s call
** Addressed all open items from Collab Summit
* Tools Update:
** Bracing for spec to be finished to update tools
** Kris has contributed some great tooling as well

== Outreach Team Report - Jack ==

* Website
** New site is now staged
** Reviewed at Collab Summit
*** Some limitations we will need to work around
*** Navigation really needs sorting out
** Still hoping for April launch
* Webinars
** Met with LF Marketing Team
** Will help us with a webinar as a trial
** Jack creating one pager to advertise
** Suggested piggy backing on a new initiative being launched in July- Professional Open Source

== Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul ==

* License list v2.4 is up
* Lots of work on new format that Kris talked about
** Legal team needs to review how the output looks
** And to take another pass at the licenses
* Special legal team meeting today immediately following

== Cross Functional Topics - Phil ==

* Google SoC
** We are on the list of LF projects
** No requests yet, but expecting some
* Still looking for special guest stars to speak at General Meetings
** Jilayne has an idea for July.

== Attendees ==

* Phil Odence, Black Duck
* Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
* Pierre LaPointe, nexB
* Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
* Mark Gisi, Wind River
* Michael Herzog- nexB
* Dave Marr, Qualcomm
* Jack Manbeck, TI
* Kris Reeves
* Scott Sterling, Palamida
* Josiah Krutz, UNO
* Matt Germonprez, UNO
* Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
* Paul Madick, Dimension Data

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