General Meeting/Minutes/2015-08-06

• Attendance: 10
• Lead by Phil Odence

• Minutes of June meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate & Gary

• Focus has been on how to add external identifiers
  • Packages (for which there is no SPDX file)
  • Security
• Planning to get back to snippets in the next month
• Folder is up for the LinuxCon NA bake off
  • Prep is already generating good feedback and conversation
• Tooling
  • Tools should be ready to go for bakeoff
    • Try out new ‘verify’ command
    • Bugs can go to the Tools mailing list or get logged in the bug systerm
  • FOSSology now has a beta release generating SPDX RDF directly
    • They are looking for testers

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• Activity on Fedora mailing list about using SPDX identifiers
  • Kate has been responding to straighten out some misunderstanding
• Working on standard headers
  • Mark G keeping up draft
  • For license that have no prescribed header, discussing whether we will recommend
• Jilayne’s talk accepted to LinuxCon Europe

Biz Team Report - Jack

• Slow progress on revamp of website
  • Moving company logos to Participation menu
  • Adding Adoption section and links

Cross Functional Topics - Phil

• Linux Foundation is rebranding Open Compliance Program, which may impact SPDX brand.
  • Logos may change and trying to tie into new initiatives
• LinuxCon Europe
  • Will likely be more of a focus on Compliance
  • Adding a Thursday session on Supply Chain / OpenChain (details forthcoming)
• Mailing List
  • Lost admin for mailing lists and wiki
  • Mailing lists will be handled by team chairs
  • Still need someone to manage the Wiki; Kate raised hand (once trained).
• Always looking for special presentations for the General Meeting

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Michael Herzog, nexB
• Pierre LaPointe, nexB
• Yev Bronshteyn, Black Duck
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM