General Meeting/Minutes/2015-10-01

• Attendance: 5
• Lead by Phil Odence

• Minutes of August meeting approved

searchcode presentation - Nuno Brito

• Background
  • Has been working with SPDX for two years and it’s been a good experience
  • Hard to get engineers to use SPDX with out good examples for them to examine
  • seachdcode seemed to be a good solution
• searchcode
  • Started by a developer in Austrailia
  • Seemed like a great place to make SPDX available
• Questions / Discussions
  • Interest in having link from SPDX
  • Files seem to have some extra fields so won’t validate
    • Nuno is very open and suggests filing bugs
  • Adoption in Europe
    • Everyone that Nuno is working with is using SPDX
    • He’s found little resistance
    • Some people are more comfortable with tag value, but bigger projects are find with RDF
    • Still there is some difficulty for adoption.

Biz Team Report - Jack

• Website
  • Working with LF, migrating to new website/new templates
  • In parallel will be implementing the new ideas for ease of use

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• No official update
• Main foci have been
  • External references
    • Balance between specificity and handling broad cases
    • Specific discussion of vulnerabilities
  • Snippets

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• No official update
• Have been processing more licenses with an eye to getting next release out

Cross Functional Topics - Phil

• LinuxCon Europe
• SW Supply Chain Summit

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Nuno Brito, TripleCheck
• Jack Manbeck, TI