General Meeting/Minutes/2013-05-02

• Attendance: 12
• Minutes of April 4 meeting approved.
• Lead by Phil Odence

Business Team Report - Jack/Scott

• Focus has been on Summit
• Themes for the year are:
  • Farming for input
    • Survey was launched at LinuxCon, Phil driving
    • First step in gathering data
  • Improving documentation
• Also some good work going on in reaching out to projects:
  • Apache
  • Yocto

Legal Team Report - Jack

• Last meeting mostly focused on the action item list and getting updates

Tech Team Report - Gary

• Two meetings since Collab Summit have involved
  • Sifting through the good inputs from the Bake Off
    • All ideas gleaned have been input into Bugzilla for tracking
  • Reviewing a proposal for 1.2
  • Discussing Daniel German's proposal for text matching
    • Overall positive discussion
    • Some concern about technical complexity of regular expressions
    • May be ways to simplify
    • Needs to be discussed cross functionally with Legal Team.
      • Jilayne to set up, perhaps using upcoming legal call time.

Cross Functional Issues – Phil

• Web Site Update - Jack
  • Up with new Wiki
  • Discussion about how to field and address questions about using the Wiki
    • Some thoughts of a new mailing list, but there wasn't a lot of appetite for the idea.
• Survey
  • Big push at Collab Summit and to all mailing lists
  • 24 responses to date
  • Discussion about how to get more responses.
    • Mike Dolan took action to get into the LF newsletter

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic
• Gary O'Neall, SourceAuditor
• Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
• Michael Herzog, nexB
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Tom Incorvia, Microfocus
• Scott Lamons, HP
• Pierre Lapoint, nexB
• Matt Germonprez, U of Nebraska Omaha
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation