Business Team/Minutes/2012-01-19

Attendees

• Kim Weins
• Chuck Gaudreau
• Gary O'Neill
• Scott Lamons
• Jilayne Lovejoy

Agenda

• Web Site
• Update on CC0 "license" feedback
• EclipseCon BOF
• Software Supply Chain Summit
• License List Process

Notes

• Web site training
• Steve Cropper and Pierre held a training session on moving stuff to the new site.
• Kim took notes and will turn that into a how-to document and will send to everyone involved
• Update on CC0 license
• Kim sent email to Ian Skerrett at Eclipse, Robin Johnson at Gentoo, Spot at Fedora about the change in the data license from Public Data License to CC0
• So far, I've hear back from Robin at Gentoo that he was happy about that.  HIs email note said:
• Looks good, 100% behind CC-0.
  
  Tom: I meant to poke you re our idea of altering license naming in the
  distros to match SPDX license identifiers.
  We've been working on classifying all the licenses in Gentoo:
  http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/license_groups?revision=1.102&view=markup
  (the above only covers 252 out of the 614 licenses presently in Gentoo).
• I sent a follow up to Robin asking if he would work with us to get the license list expanded to cover his 252 (or possibly 614) licenses in Gentoo.
• Eclipse BOF
• Chuck and Mahshad from Protecode are working to organize BOF at EclipseCon
• I suggested that they should plan for no more than 20 people. 
• Software Supply Chain Summit
• This would be a 1 day meeting in person with people involved in the software supply chain to discuss SPDX and OSS compliance in the supply chain
• Targeting potentially April 6 (day after LF COllab Summit)
• To be held in South Bay (possible at DLA or Cisco or HP facilities)
• Topics would be about OSS compliance in the supply chain issues, SPDX issues and discussion
• We want it to be not just presentation, but also discussion
• We would target maybe 20 or so people from enterprises that use/distribute OSS
• How to get people there
• Current SPDX members to invite people
• Mark Radcliffe will help market
• Ask LF (Jim Z) to help
• Kim to talk to LF to coordinate so we can finalize date/time/place
• Process for companies to adopt - Per Scott L
• Can start with procurement team to ask suppliers to provide it
• Will need to educate procurement team
• Will need places on website to point suppliers to
• They have a standard spreadsheet format for proposal tracking of all OSS requests -- but it's not the SPDX format
• WOuld need to be able to have extra fields that are company specific and have the tools ignore/add those.
• Will need tools to help them
• Idea is that you feed it software repositories to scan for licenses and then you can input the SPDX specific fields and create SPDX files
• Could also ask their developers that are making internal requests to provide SPDX