General Meeting/Minutes/2015-12-03

Tech Team Report - Gary

Only 2 tech meetings due to Thanksgiving
Code Snippets
- Candidate proposal in GoogleDocs for Review
- Background
  - A bit controversial due to legit concern that it adds a lot of effort
  - Identification at the line level requires substantial extra work
- So, snippets are optional
- Decision driven by important use case- Java script files
  - As they tend to bundle together a number of downloadable chunks in one file
- For many other use cases, it may not be used much
- Implementation
  - Just added snippet level similar to Package and File
    - Additionally adds byte range
    - Snippets relate to files analogously to how files relate to packages
External ID discussion is back on the table with snippet work starting to wind down
Tools
- A lot of good community contribution
  - individuals from a variety of organizations- Linux, other open source (eg NPM community), some users (e.g. Black Duck)
- Should be releasing a new rev of the SPDX tools in the next few weeks
- Question: relation to Stefano’s work with Debian tooling described at LinuxCon Europe
  - Enabling Debian copyright files to auto-gen SPDX files
  - Gary will discuss with Kate

- Went over the list of license and exceptions list
- Added 2 or 3 licenses and some exceptions
- Entertaining new proposal for mark up format
  - involved Tech Team as well
  - needs to be resurrected

New Website
- Work was put on hold by LF for some higher priority work
- Should have something staged before the end of the year
- Front page will be a big improvement
- Early 2016 launch is targeted, but we will need to evaluate with
Working on outreach plan
- targeting groups and conferences

Always interested in guest speakers for upcoming meetings
- Please come to Phil with ideas about organizations who are willing to do short/informal presentations on what they are doing with SPDX