General Meeting/Minutes/2012-10-18

Attendance: 7

Minutes of Oct 4 meeting approved.

Led by Kirsten Newcomer

Technical Team Report - Gary

• Completed review of use cases.
• Have started modeling phase
  
  • Will create model of v1.1 and review so that everyone has the same baseline to work from
  • Then will start building model for 2.0 and vet against use cases for 2.0

Legal Team Report - Tom

• Last two meetings have been lightly attended. Only 4 folks this week.
• Some issues have surfaced with the GPL exceptions on the SPDX license list
  
  • Legal team is looking for a volunteer to review for correctness
• Team discussed potential policy around licenses in different languages. Some initial thoughts from the team
• Official language of the license list site is English
• A small number of licenses have been originally published in a different language; for those cases, may make sense to publish in the original language
• Policy is still under discussion

Business Team Report - Jack 

• No meeting last week. Current activities include
• Recruitment
  • Continuing to work on recruitment plan & roadmap
  • Team thinks this will be ready for review soon
  • Team is looking for a volunteer to write the On Boarding document
  • Pierre has downloaded the free version of KarmaCRM which might be useful for tracking recruitment efforts
  • Free version is limited to two users. One option might be to create a shared email address for SPDX team use. Business team wil discuss at next meeting.

Cross Functional Issues – Team

• Web Site Update
  
  •  It's time to get ready for Linux Foundation conversion
    • Need two SPDX team members to work with webmasters from the Linux Foundation
    • Recommendation is that Martin Michlymeyer be one and that the other team member be someone who contributed to the previous web-site revamp for continuinty.
• SPDX plugin for Fossology
• Matt Germonprez (U of Neb) is making good progress and hopes to be able to share more broadly in about a month.

Attendees

• Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
• Pierre Lapointe, nexB
• Jack Manbeck, Texas Instruments
• Kamyar Emami, Protecode
• Tom Incorvia, Microfocus
• Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor
• Scott Lamons, HP