General Meeting/Minutes/2010-11-18

Minutes

• Attendance - 14
• Approval of minutes:  11/4 minutes approved
• Outreach and evangelism:
  
  • Common Messaging/Presentation – PhilO
    • no update
  • Industry Venues – PhilR
    • no update
  • Website – MartinM
    • Enhanced as per Organizational Structure discussion below.

•  Roll Out Update - KimW/JohnE
  • In lieu of Face to Face will start bi-weekly virtually meetings as "Business Team"
  • Critical that we get betas going in Q1. Looking for friendlies and ideally pairs of companies who exchange software in a supply chain. Anyone interested should talk to John E
•  Legal Update - Rockett
  • No update.

• SPDX Group Organizational Structure- PhilO
  
  • Organization has been organically developing into 3 distinct, thought interdependent workstreams
    • Technical, Business and Legal
  • We are evolving the organization into three teams to reflect this.
  • Each team will have it's own place on spdx.org, mailing list, and meetings
  • This meeting will continue as the General Meeting, run by Phil, to coordinate workstreams.
  • Details in attached slides

• Git Repo - Pete W
  
  • Peter has set up the Git repository such that
    • It embeds the RDF ontology
    • Can export to HTML or .pdf
    • Handles process for proposing/approving changes
• RDF - BillS
  
  • Weekly meeting with Kate, Peter, Gary, Bill.
  • Recommended one of two alternatives for handling file information.
  • Group approved <a href="http://www.spdx.org/wiki/proposal-2010-10-21-3-artifactof">artifactOf proposal</a>
  • Note: This involves referencing a DOAP file, but does not require all fields in complete DOAP file
• Licensing Team- KimW
  
  • GPL "or later" issue
  • Group agreed that "or later" licenses need to be handled as separate items in license list.
  • Next item on licensing agenda is to develop a strategy for handling exceptions
  • This work will migrate to the Legal Team

Action Items

Note: Drafting related action items are embedded in the Wiki. <a href="http://www.spdx.org/wiki/spdx/specification">http://www.spdx.org/wiki/spdx/specification</a>

• Dave - Clean up the WIKI to only have analysis visible that reflects current spec. DONE

• Dave/JeffL - Update zlib based on new specification  DONE, BUT AWAITING FEEDBACK FROM GARY

• PeterW- Implement issue tracking system.  BLOCKED ON KATE

• Kate - submit ids to Linux Foundation so infrastructure setup can proceed - PENDING

• Kate- Draft example for LF Member Counsel; include XML and corresponding spreadsheet (or spreadsheet-like) format. PENDING

• Phil R - Update Industry Events. DONE

• Rockett- Mail out trademark policy draft to SPDX list. DONE. 

• Rockett- Query status of trademark application DONE. APPLICATION IS IN AN WAITING FOR ASSIGNMENT OF A TM EXAMINER

• All- Review 6 months mail and contrast against licensing group spreadsheet. FOR NEXT LICENSE GRP MEETING

• All- If you can't attend meeting, post feedback/vote to list on 5.6/5.7 proposals. DONE

• Kate- Write up formal proposal on SHA field change and mail to list. IN PROCESS

• All- Review SHA field change proposal for technical flaws; if so, discuss on list. FOR TECH AGENDA NXT MEETING

• Kate- Add back to SPEC page in WIKI preferred syntax for adding comments. TO BE DONE

• Michael H- Write up and share position on "reporting" vs. "interpreting."

• PhilO- Get legal team input on Michael's position.

 

NEXT MEETING

• 2010/12/2 at same time. 

 

ATTENDANCE

•   Peter Williams, OpenLogic
•   Kim Weins, OpenLogic
•   Marshall Clow, Qualcomm
•   John Ellis, Motorola
•   Eric Weidner - OpenLogic
•   Tom Incorvia, MicroFocus
•   Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor
•   Michael Herzog, nexB
•   Phil Koltun, Linux Foundation
•   Martin Michlmayr, HP
•   Kate Stewart, Canonical
•   Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic
•   Bill Schineller, Black Duck Software
•   Philip Odence, Black Duck Software