Business Team/Minutes/2011-12-08

Attendees

• Scott Lamons
• Phil Odence
• Mark Gisi
• Pierre Lapointe
• Gary O Neall
• Kim Weins

Agenda

• Web site
• Community outreach
• 2012 Goals

Notes

Web site

• Pierre reported that sandbox for new site was up as of yesterday
• Pierre and Steve will work to rebuild the structure -- goal to finish is Dec 16th
• We need help to move content over and create content
• Schedule (tentative pending Pierre and Steve)
• Dec 16 - Sandbox strcuture completed (Pierre and Steve)
• Dec 19-Jan 6 Content moved over to sandbox
• Jan 9 - Cutover to new site
• Content needed (per the mindmap)

Community outreach

• We believe that we are close to finalizing the new data license as CC0 (with a preamble)
• Need to get an update from Michael Herzog on the pitch deck for communities
• Once both of those are done, we can proceed to setting up meetings

2012 Goals

• We are starting a process of putting together 2012 Goals for SPDX.  Each team is creating goals which we will then roll up.
• Kim created a first pass on goals, and we got feedback and inpiut.  The draft of Business Team goals (with feedback) are below

 

 Goals for 2012

• Build out website infrastructure necessary content

• Rollout new website – Jan
• Infrastructure that’s reliable and recoverable
• Build additional content as needed
• Build out metrics – visitors, tool downloads,
  

• Outreach to communities
• Goal: At least 1 major community announcing support

• Outreach to companies
• Goal: At least 10 companies adopting SPDX as a standard

• Implement a License Add process for repo
• Implement a workflow process for new license

Tradeshows to Consider

• LF

• Android Builder/Embedded – Feb CA
• Collab Summit – Apr CA
• Enterprise Summit – May NY
• LinuxCon Japan – Jun Yokohama
• LinuxCon NA – Aug San Diego
• LinuxCon Europe – Nov Barcelona

• Others

• DebConf Jul 2012 Nicaragua
• OSCON – Jul Portland -- 
• ApacheCOn – Nov  -  Scott Lamons willing to speak
• EclipseCon – Mar DC
• FUDCon - Jan VA

• Get people to submit for speaking
• Create and share an abstract with others

Budget Items

• Website – Hosting
• Web Design/Development
• Tradeshows – LF – will LF subsidize?
• Tradeshows – Other?