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General Meeting/Minutes/2017-04-06

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  • Attendance: 12
  • Lead by Phil Odence
  • Minutes of March meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

  • Prepping for Google Summer of Code
  • 10 proposals
  • At least 3 or 4 are very promising, only 1 or 2 that aren’t that great
    • Examples:
    • On-line validation tool (already engaged with community)
    • Automating SPDX gen in GitHub (already thought out architecture)
    • License grade
  • Mentors lined up for 2-4 slots we’ve requested
  • Will pick appropriate number based on slots

Outreach Team Report - Jack

  • Creating a developer-friendly area in Git for SPDX
  • Versions of the spec
  • Information exchange
    • following example of nexB creating an umbrella repo for the nexB family of repos
  • Talking about what we expect people to do
  • So we can make more definitive statements
  • for different market segments sort of
  • Will guide website
  • XML markup
  • Made some recent decisions
  • Down to less that 60 licenses
  • Still work to do and volunteers needed
  • Reception
  • Seeing interest on GitHub
  • Getting useful feedback on particulars of licenses
  • Challenge
  • Juggling two lists until next release
  • Unclear where to log updates
  • Enduring until next release
  • May make sense to post “Bear with us” message
    • in GitHub
    • and current repo
  • Timing
  • uncertain as it depends on getting the work done
  • plus a week or two of Gary once XML is done
  • Brad presented to ABA
  • Put a lot of time into slides
  • Should be posted on website

Attendees

  • Phil Odence, Black Duck
  • Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
  • Paul Madick, Dimension Data
  • Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
  • Jack Manbeck, TI
  • Michael Herzog- nexB
  • Mark Gisi, Wind River
  • Alexios Zavras, Intel
  • Thomas Steenbergen, HERE
  • Matije Suklje, LF
  • Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
  • Dave Marr, Qualcomm

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