= Special Presentation - Gary

Kyle Mitchell, a lawyer/developer has equipped to popular package managers to support SPDX
- NPM for JavaScript
- Ruby Grems for Ruby
- Capabilities
  - Check license for ID package metadata and flag issues
  - Supporting both SPDX Short IDs and expression language
  - Checks live current SPDX license list
  - Similar to UBoot syntax but extended to include expressions
GitHub new mirrors our tools repo hosted by LF
- This has started to increase visibility and awareness
- Enabled Kyle to contribute to tools
JSON format has been added to the license formats
- Not officially supported...yet, but should be
Other community news
- Poco projects and Linaro open dataplane now including SPDX short IDs
- OpenChain adopted as part of best practices doc

Tech Team Report - Kate

Focus is on snippets
- Alternatives have been described and are under discussion
- Good time to get involved with Tech Team if you are interested in snippets
Wiki now maintains a list of upcoming topics

License list
- Now quarterly releases
- end of June, Sept, Dec
- June to include an expanded Exceptions List
Joint Tech/Legal Meeting upcoming
- None/NoAssertion Discussion
- June 16, 9am PDT
Also into discussion of standard headers

Website
- Working on Getting Started Pages
- Framework established
- Seeking volunteers to help flesh out
LinuxCon NA
- Gary's paper has been accepted
- Jack to secure room for plugfest
- Kate/Gary driving plugfest content