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General Meeting/Minutes/2020-12-03

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  • Attendance: 11
  • Lead by Phil Odence
  • Minutes of Nov meeting Approved

Tech Team Report - Gary

  • Spec
  • Nov, busy month
  • Mostly working on Base Model
    • Working on Relationships
    • Between, for example, files, packages, etc
    • Exploring verification methods, digital signatures, etc
    • Supporting Contains
    • This should clear the way to get more work done on the other profiles
    • Process work too
    • Hoping enough is in place after next meeting to remove blockers
  • Tools
  • New release of online tools is up
    • Quite significant
    • Much new functionality
    • As such, there will likely be issues
    • Report in GitHub or emailing Gary
    • There was a character encoding issues that was quickly resolved
  • New license list generator has improved the LL
  • Good work/improvements on Go libraries
    • THANKS, Rishabh
  • Main Nov work 3.11 License release
  • A little smaller than previous was
  • 3.12 discussions starting today
  • Aiming for end of Jan
  • Dealing with a little backlog of new requests
  • Could use help, as usual
  • Documentation/Website
  • Core team has been overhauling
  • Updating License List page
    • Including moving to GitHub

Outreach Team Report

  • Aveek’s ideas for increasing SPDX Participation
  • Started discussing last meeting
  • Rough plan
  • Approach student communities at different schools
  • Give assignments to students or onboarding
    • e.g. Open Printing has a generic, easy, but comprehensive assignment defined
    • May need different ones for different technologies
  • Single point of contact to guide students
    • Perhaps students from previous years
  • Identify basic issues to assign
  • Encourage participation in GSOC and LFMP
  • Encourage previous students to mentor
  • Organize Virtual Meetups
  • From student groups in schools
  • Also has the idea of talking to other projects about benefits
  • Will start with Open Printing

Attendees

  • Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
  • David Wheeler, Linux Foundation
  • Rishabh Bhatnagar, St Francis Inst Tech
  • Aveek Basu, NextMark Printers
  • Steve Winslow, LF
  • Jilayne Lovejoy, Canonical
  • Mark Atwood, Amazon
  • Paul Madick
  • Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
  • Jim Hutchison, Qualcomm
  • Rose Judge, VMware

Categories: General, Minutes