General Meeting/Minutes/2020-12-03

• Attendance: 11
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of Nov meeting Approved

Tech Team Report - Gary

• Spec
  • Nov, busy month
  • Mostly working on Base Model
    • Working on Relationships
      • Between, for example, files, packages, etc
      • Exploring verification methods, digital signatures, etc
      • Supporting Contains
    • This should clear the way to get more work done on the other profiles
      • Process work too
      • Hoping enough is in place after next meeting to remove blockers
• Tools
  • New release of online tools is up
    • Quite significant
    • Much new functionality
    • As such, there will likely be issues
      • Report in GitHub or emailing Gary
      • There was a character encoding issues that was quickly resolved
  • New license list generator has improved the LL
  • Good work/improvements on Go libraries
    • THANKS, Rishabh

Legal Team Report - Paul/Jilayne/Steve

• Main Nov work 3.11 License release
  • A little smaller than previous was
• 3.12 discussions starting today
  • Aiming for end of Jan
  • Dealing with a little backlog of new requests
  • Could use help, as usual
• Documentation/Website
  • Core team has been overhauling
  • Updating License List page
    • Including moving to GitHub

Outreach Team Report

• Aveek’s ideas for increasing SPDX Participation
  • Started discussing last meeting
• Rough plan
  • Approach student communities at different schools
  • Give assignments to students or onboarding
    • e.g. Open Printing has a generic, easy, but comprehensive assignment defined
    • May need different ones for different technologies
  • Single point of contact to guide students
    • Perhaps students from previous years
  • Identify basic issues to assign
  • Encourage participation in GSOC and LFMP
  • Encourage previous students to mentor
  • Organize Virtual Meetups
  • From student groups in schools
• Also has the idea of talking to other projects about benefits
  • Will start with Open Printing

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• David Wheeler, Linux Foundation
• Rishabh Bhatnagar, St Francis Inst Tech
• Aveek Basu, NextMark Printers
• Steve Winslow, LF
• Jilayne Lovejoy, Canonical
• Mark Atwood, Amazon
• Paul Madick
• Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
• Jim Hutchison, Qualcomm
• Rose Judge, VMware