Business Team/Minutes/2011-02-17

Agenda

• Beta program update
• Volunteers for beta coordinator
• Beta materials
• Product management question on tools reqts

Participants

• Kim Weins
• Phil Koltun
• Phil Odence
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Gary O'Neall
• Mark Gisi
• Esteban Rockett
• Scott Lamons
• Jilayne Lovejoy

Notes

• We reviewed status of Beta sites.
  • 3 confirmed trading partner pairs
    • HP - WindRiver
    • Motorola - TI
    • Antelink - community project (OpenLogic will create SPDX file for Antelink)
  • Possibles - still determining
    • Mentor Graphics
    • ASUS
    • Alcatel-Lucent (as another trading partner for HP)
    • Fedora

• Beta coordinators
  • We asked for volunteers to be beta coordinators. They will help project manage a particular trading partner pair and make sure beta is moving smoothly. VOlunteers are:
    • Kim Weins
    • Phil Odence
    • Kirsten Newcomer
    • Gary O'Neall
  • We may need additional volunteers depending on the number of beta sites. Let Kim know if you are interested
• Beta materials
  • We discussed the materials that will be needed for Beta and who volunteered to work on them
    • Process overview (proposed methodology) - still need a volunteer
    • Training materials
      • SPDX overview - business - Kim
      • SPDX technical - ask technical team for a volunteer
    • Documentation on tools - Kirsten N to write, Scott L to help test/review
    • FAQ on using the spec
      • Kim and tech team for techncial stuff
    • Bug system
  • Timing - goal is to be done with materials be end of March. Drafts are due Mar 17. That will give last 2 weeks of Mar for review/edits
• Question on tool requirements
  • Gary O'Neall asked beta participants (3 were on call) for preference of RDF vs tag-value format. Beta people wanted to check with their technical folks, but general consensus was either that they didn't care which format or leaned toward RDF.
  • Kim forwarded questionnaire to Betas after the call to ask for add'l feedback