Difference between revisions of "General Meeting/Minutes/2021-10-07"

Revision as of 14:22, 8 October 2021

• Attendance: 25
• Lead by Phil Odence

Special Topics- Phil / Vicky

• Governance Update
  • New governance is in place
  • Will be announcing mechanism for signing up Member Companies
  • With that will announce the mechanism for nominating Steering Committee members

• Wipro
  • Vicky discussed Wipro’s view of benefits and reasons for joining

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary/Others

• Tools 
  • no update
• Specification
  • Spec version compatible with ISO, now available
• Version 3
  • Working on how to establish the repos
• Question about SPDX Lite
  • That would be the minimum mandatory fields

Legal team update - Jilayne

• New license request volume slowed down this month
• Doing some general catchup with members of the legal team
• Due for a new release at the end of the month
• Update on collaboration with OSI and FSF

  * Gary is working on 3 year old issues with the LicenseListPublisher to automate the inclusion of data from FSF and OSI   * Data is in the isFsfFree column and the OSI approved columns for the SPDX listed licenses   * Recently, getting good response from FSF and OSI - especially from OSI   * OSI has a machine readable format that is being actively worked on   * In addition to tool automation, there may be an opportunity for the legal team to have a communication process on license updates   * Jilayne provided history on previous attempts to work with FSF on integrating their data which at times has been less responsive  

Outreach team - Sebastian

• Recent Docfest was a success, brought in several tool vendors to compare results
• Updated Wikipedia page progressing slowing
  • Lead section updated - this is what you seen when you do a Google search
• Sebastian resolved an accessibility issue with the SPDX spec web pages - increasing the contrast making it much more readable
• Website is being updated
  • A section will be added to showcase company usage of SPDX
• Updating meeting time to be more time available
  • Times are shown as UTC Note: will change next month
  • new time will be the off weeks at the same time as legal
• going to meetings every other week from once a week.  Vicki pointed out that there will be more work being done on the mailing list, so feel free to volunteer for outreach activities even if you can't make the meetings.
• Joshua reported the SPDX official podcasts started
  • Once a month
  • Outreach team will meeting every other month
  • Will interview many community members
  • Will follow-up with Vicki and others in the general meeting
• Kate - presented keynote at open source summit
  • well received, good interested
• Sebastian and Gary reporting increasing interest in SBOM tooling - we're seeing some good momentum

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• Andrew Jorgenson, AWS
• Kate Stewart, LF
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Bill Jaeger
• Bob Martin, Mitre
• Eric Billingsley, Calculi
• Chrissini de Castro
• Michael Mehlberg, Dark Sky Technology
• Maximilian Huber, TNG
• Sebastian Crane
• William Cox, Synopsys
• Vicky Brasseur, Wipro
• Matthew Crawford, ARM
• Marc Gisi, Windriver
• Pierre Tardy,
• Joshua Marpet, RM-ISAO
• Brad Goldring, GTC Law Group
• Paul Madick, Jenzabar
• Jilayne Lovejoy, Red Hat
• Christopher Lusk
• Clement Poulain
• Joshua Dubin, Verizon
• Takashi Ninjouji