Business Team/Minutes/2011-01-06

Agenda

• Beta program - interested companies, next steps
• User content - brainstorm list of content
• Review Action Items

Participants

• Kim Weins
• Phil Koltun
• Phil Odence
• Pierre Lapointe
• Gary O'Neall
• Tom Incorvia
• Kate Stewart
• Jilayne Lovejoy
• Scott Lamons
• Mark Radcliffe

Notes

• Beta sites - reviewed list - 5 interested. See doc on Business section

• Talked a little about possible trading partners for HP
  • Phil O - to connect Wind River with HP
• Kim to set up a call to describe the program to all the participants
• Need to lay out in detail exactly what we want them to do, answer questions on tooling
• Gary O'Neall reiterated that technical team can provide tooling to generate and read SPDX file from flat file or spreadsheet type format
• Could also use that call to get feedback on requirements
• Will schedule call one month out - at Feb 3rd meeting
• Agenda for that call
  • SPDX overview - benefits, etc
  • Tooling
  • What they will need to do
  • Licensing of data in SPDX file
  • What will we do with the data - what will they need to share
  • Ask their requirements for tooling
  • Discuss any concerns about confidentiality
  • What resources are available (documentation, support, etc)
  • Marketing expectations/requests
• Slides needed for call
  • Gary - Tooling, Phil O - Overview, Kim - Beta Program for meeting -- create slides for the call
  • We will review the slides next meeting
• Beta site timing
  • How long will it take?
  • Probably will take weeks to a couple of months
  • Kim to include sample project plan in slides

• Send invites to the meeting and to list in general - Kim
  • Beta sites might want to invite supply chain manager for that call or other
• Ask Rocket to be on call to discuss legal issues
• Mark R - will try to include SPDX and possibly any results to date in his OSBC talk

Action Items from last time

• Brainstorm list – divide and conquer to reach out - Done
• Write up program info/email to solicit interest – Kim - Done
• Presentation on beta program - Kim - Not done yet
• Set up conference call to present further & get organized - Kim to do
• Put together “beta support team”
  • Kate, Kim, Gary, Jilayne have volunteered
• Need a “beta program manager”
  • Kim or ask John Ellis
• Need training/doc/how to for the beta sites (these will be beta docs for final release) - discuss on next call
• Will need a beta email list
• What do we discuss/do at OSBC (Mark has speaking slot and can mention it, work with Matt to get separate seminar)), LF Collab Summit, ELN
• Mark R - can talk at qtrly wine dinner and ask

Brainstorm List of possible participants to approach

• HP - possibly with Motorola and/or distro partner (RH or Suse or Ubuntu) or vmWare - Scott - working on
• Canonical/Ubuntu (Kate?) - Kim - Not ready yet
• Motorola with other trading partner - Kim - Yes
• Asus - ask Soren about this - Mark R - haven't talked to them yet
• Wind River - Phil O- Yes
• MeeGo within LF - Phil K -Not ready yet
• Qualcomm - Mark R and Phil O - haven't talked to them yet
• Nokia - ask Karen C - Kim haven't talked to them yet
• Freescale - Kim ask Ann Thornton
• Fedora - Phil O - Yes
• Apache - with one of the distros - Kate to see if she can find someone, Scott to reach out to Jim J
• BT - as an end user - Phil O - contact is gone
• Alcatel Lucent - Mark R haven't talked to them yet
• Advocacy groups - to endorse or participate
  • SFLC ( Bradley Kuhn, Karen Sandler - Kim), haven't talked to them yet
  • FSF (Eben) Mark haven't talked to them yet
  • OSI - Mark R haven't talked to them yet
• Legal people -- Mark Radcliffe, Karen C, Heather Meeker
• Service provider/tool vendors -- generating spdx or reading spdx
• Mark Radcliffe - has personal lists