Business Team/Minutes/2011-05-26

Attendees

• Kim Weins
• Pierre Lapointe
• Steve Cropper
• Kate Stewart
• Pierre Lapointe
• Scott Lamons
• Mike Gisi
• Phil Odence
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Esteban Rockett
• Kamal Hassin

Agenda

• Beta Updates
• Web Site Review
• Discuss upcoming events

Minutes

• Beta Sites
  • OpenLogic-Antelink
    • Kickoff today
  • Windriver-HP
    • Started the Kickoff
    • Working through issues to get tools running on the Windriver platform
  • TI-Motorola
    • Had an initial call. Jack is going to run point.
    • Identified one thread of Android to use in the Beta process
    • Jim Van Persom - circled back with Gary
    • Kickoff - scheduled for next week
  • Kate is looking at another potential Beta
    • Also talking to Daniel German re doing SPDX file for Linux kernel (a formal release) - using Ninka
    • Trying to prototype tools
  • Cisco - might want to get involved in Beta
    • Also talked to Jim Zemlin/Karen Copenhaver re LF getting involved in doing SPDX Beta for Linux kernel
    • Concerned about alignment between different SPDX files from different people
    • Issues re sample files on website
  • Discussion re SPDX for Linux kernel
    • Getting SPDX from copyright holder is great per Mark Gisi. However, thinks, that it may be hard because of amount of work.
  • How do we handle jars that may have other stuff inside -- thought was handling as conjunctive licenses. Could also handle as a separate SPDX file.
• Web Site Re-design
  • Discussed with Steve and Martin re current technical setup for SPDX website.
  • It's one website with FOSSbazaar - shared users, db, etc- just different content
  • Uses Drupal 6
  • Martin will set up a sandbox for SPDX so they can experiment and determine what we want and what technology will work.
  • Currently Martin is taking care of SPDX and FossBazaar -- can do small changes. If want bigger changes, need to get in touch with LF re technical resources to help with website
  • Content
    • Working on personas --- understand the types of people/profiles and their path
  • Phil O -- Offered help to make interim fixes to current website, based on design discussions so far, if needed.
  • Kim to try to re-org Wiki
  • Try to get highest priority
• Events (to try to speak at)
  • LinuxCon NA - Phil applied to have half hour at LinuxCon to talk re SPDX, Kate, Kim
  • LinuxCon Europe - possibly Kim or Phil O
  • LinuxCon Brazil
  • Possibly at Linux Plumbers as a BOF - depending on
  • Possibly other communit conferences, DebConf, ApacheCon, EclipseCon etc.