General Meeting/Minutes/2012-09-20

• Attendance: 10
• Minutes of Sept 6 meeting approved.
• Lead by Phil Odence

Technical Team Report - Kate

• Continuing to work through use cases.
• Peter Williams has left Openlogic. The tech team as well as the whole SPDX community officially thank him for his commitment and huge contributions to the project.
• Peter is replaced by Jeff Gran.

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• License list
  • Wrapped up FSF list work
  • In process of defining what new license will go in the next version. Researching other lists with we'd like to to cover, Fedora is on the radar next
  • Version 1.17 is adding 42 licenses to the previous 165
  • Newly agreed to princple: If there is a version of a license on the list, we should also have all previous versions. (and future, presumably- Editor's Note)
  • Question came up about Freeware/Shareware license. Tabled for future meeting with larger group.

Business Team Report - Jack & Scott

• Matt Germonprez of U of Neb and a grad student are making progress working with FOSSology and SPDX
• Barriers to Adoption
  • Adoption remains a key focus of the business team.
  • Working on a survey
  • Plan to roll out to SPDX-involved companies as well as other companies from FOSSBazaar and LinuxF communites.
• Ibrahim has come up with some great recruiting ideas.
  • Blocking issues: Need a govenance document (Phil is drafting)
  • Other needs: Roadmap (Jack working), Defined onboarding process.
  • Need a slide deck targeted at recruiting (Phil and Ibrahim working)
  • Michael lead discussion about how to work with Linux Foundation.
    • They are happy to help, but don't want to hand over mailing lists wholesale.
    • Feels it's important that we track recruiting efforts like a sales pipeline; Is looking into using a CRM system to track. It is important to recognize that some companies will not want recruiting discussion details to be public
  • Need to put some special thought into working with Asian companies.

Cross Functional Issues – Phil

• Web Site Update
  • Lots of progress on clean up. Now in reasonably credible state, though still tweaking
  • Bad links and dead pages are for the most part gone.
  • Tech Team section now consistent with others.
  • Some URLs are confusing/inconsistent, but not worth worrying about as Linux Foundation will be revamping site for us shortly.
  • Jack is looking into adding a Contact Us tab.

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Michael Herzog, nexB
• Kate Stewart, Canonical
• Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic
• Jack Manbeck, Texas Instruments
• Jason Buttura, Cisco
• Scott Lamons, HP
• Tom Incorvia, Microfocus
• Kamyar Emami, Protecode
• Pierre Lapointe, nexB