General Meeting/Minutes/2011-06-30

Technical Team Report - Kate

Extended biz meeting on July 7 to focus on beta fb and website. All invited
- Aim is to ID only showstopper items
GA Launch:
- Stake in ground for mid-August
- Press release- to include endorsements
- Phil has speaking slot, JimZ should mention in Keynote, Table/Booth of some sort

Maximizing adoption is the filter for all decisions
Key current issue: Creator/Reviewer fields
- Some Member Counsel are concerned about having files wrongly attributed to companies
- Team is working to understand and address concerns
- But don't want to casually drop fields that may be valuable to others
Question about rules for resolving- Concensus is ideal

Approach to convergence on V1.0
- Still open legal/biz issues.
- Driving for resolution by end of July
- Identify showstoppers in beta meeting and ID owners to sheppard resolution of each
- Clean up spec and finaliz by 8/12, prior to 8/17 launch
Website
- Shifted from mockups to mindmap
- To be presented at meeting on 7th
- Volunteers needed for sandbox
BOM formats MichaelH
- Real BOMs can be very complex with unlimited depth and width
- Hierarchy is key
- There are two well-known existing models
  - ERP BOM data model
  - PDX - Product Data Exchange
- We don't need to deal with today, but need to consider in the future
- Michael posting

MartinM- Report back on # of people on respective mailing lists. ONGOING
Kim -- share Biz Team proposed process for adding licenses to SPDX list more broadly
Michael H. -- Posting BOM info
Kim- Creating FAQ strucdture and handing out pieces for review, cleanup, additions