General Meeting/Minutes/2017-11-02

• Attendance: 5
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of Oct meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate

• Focus on new license list
  • Getting ready
  • Adding FSF Libre field
  • Trevor extending to an API, if they want to push changes, or we can pull
• Prague
  • SPDX Open Source Tools Session
    • MarkG demoed sparts as part of Intel booth, and illustrated how Hyperledger with SPDX can be used in supply chain
    • Thomas Steenbergen announced open source review toolkit (ORT) and provided overview of ScanCode
    • Michael Jaeger reviewed how SW360 and new release of FOSSology can be used to work with SPDX

source{d} discussed proposal they're working on to apply machine learning to license recognition.

• • • Kate overviewed the SPDX tools repository and some of the newer additions by GSoC students as well as the test suite.
  • Kate did a talk on "automating license compliance - filling in the missing pieces" - more info at http://sched.co/BxI3.
    • Lots of developer interest in this topic now.
  • FOSSology Hands-on training had section on SPDX documents, that she presented.

Legal Team Report - Paul

• XML project continues well
• Still discussions on “or later” issue
  • On hold for the moment as Jilayne is out

Outreach Team Report

• Jack still working on testing tools

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
• Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard