General Meeting/Minutes/2017-04-06

• Attendance: 12
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of March meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Prepping for Google Summer of Code
  • 10 proposals
  • At least 3 or 4 are very promising, only 1 or 2 that aren’t that great
    • Examples:
      • On-line validation tool (already engaged with community)
      • Automating SPDX gen in GitHub (already thought out architecture)
      • License grade
  • Mentors lined up for 2-4 slots we’ve requested
  • Will pick appropriate number based on slots

Outreach Team Report - Jack

• Creating a developer-friendly area in Git for SPDX
  • Versions of the spec
  • Information exchange
    • following example of nexB creating an umbrella repo for the nexB family of repos
• Talking about what we expect people to do
  • So we can make more definitive statements
  • for different market segments sort of
  • Will guide website

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• XML markup
  • Made some recent decisions
  • Down to less that 60 licenses
  • Still work to do and volunteers needed
• Reception
  • Seeing interest on GitHub
  • Getting useful feedback on particulars of licenses
• Challenge
  • Juggling two lists until next release
  • Unclear where to log updates
  • Enduring until next release
  • May make sense to post “Bear with us” message
    • in GitHub
    • and current repo
• Timing
  • uncertain as it depends on getting the work done
  • plus a week or two of Gary once XML is done
• Brad presented to ABA
  • Put a lot of time into slides
  • Should be posted on website

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Michael Herzog- nexB
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• Thomas Steenbergen, HERE
• Matije Suklje, LF
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
• Dave Marr, Qualcomm