General Meeting/Minutes/2012-01-12

Attendees

Talked about Legal To-Do's
Legal team is working on templatizing -- they have a draft of guidelines. There are some outstanding issues
Need to get going on the license approval process. Biz team is owning the process but legal will be participants as well.
Jilayne and Adam finalized the last edits on the preamble for the data license. Kim to send to community people for feedback
Mark Gisi has updated "rationale doc" that explains why we selected data license. That doc is not yet on website, but Mark to upload

Work of tech team is focused on the 1.1 spec.
They did a review of the draft 1.1 spec and there were a few follow up items.
Plan is to resolve those issues and update the RDF and the tools by the end of Q1.
3 new tools are available that
- Convert between SPDX Tag and RDF format (both ways)
- Convert from SPDX to HTML
1.1 Features are:
- Updated data license to CC0
- Fix typos
- Fix the verification codes
- Add tracking of suppliers
Tech team is also starting on the hierarchical/embedded design for 2.0.

Website conversion is almost ready to start
- Web team had a meeting earlier in the week to review the work that is done
- Steve Cropper to schedule a web training for next week to show people how to convert content
Discussed EclipseCon
- Protecode is taking the lead to organize a BOF
Discussed Software Supply Chain Summit idea
- The idea is to have an in person 1 day meeting in Bay Area
- Target date is Fri April 6, right after Collab Summit
- Invite people from companies in the software supply chain -- including non-SPDX participants
- SPDX people could also invite supplychain partners
- We want to start to socialize and spread SPDX
- Agenda would need to be developed, but contect would include SPDX Basics, End User talks, License info, tools as well as discussions
- Steve Cropper said Cisco may be willing to host. HP may as well.
- Kim to follow up with LF and let them know.