http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07
General Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07 < General Meeting<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting> | Minutes<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes> <http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#mw-navigation><http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#p-search> * Attendance: 14 * Lead by Phil Odence * Minutes of March meeting approved Contents [hide<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#>] * 1 Special Guest Star - Kris Reeves<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Special_Guest_Star_-_Kris_Reeves> * 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Tech_Team_Report_-_Kate.2FGary> * 3 Outreach Team Report - Jack<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Outreach_Team_Report_-_Jack> * 4 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Legal_Team_Report_-_Jilayne.2FPaul> * 5 Cross Functional Topics - Phil<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Cross_Functional_Topics_-_Phil> * 6 Attendees<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07#Attendees> Special Guest Star - Kris Reeves[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=1>] * Background * Working with the team over the past few months * Focused on improving templates and matching process * Has been building tools for his NodeJS environment to discover licenses to meet client needs * Created a tool that makes a binary decision about whether there are any problematic licenses, yes or no * Wasn’t working well initially because of “naive” approach in the package he was using Node License Finder * Found 3 packages that were trying to do this * Node Packet Manager used SPDX short names * Which got Kris onto SPDX * Tool was not using matching guidelines properly * So Kris got onto trying to trying to fix * SPDX Work * Felt there needed to be some changes * Started submitted bug reports * Conclusion: * The templates were the right place to address issues he was running into * Developed tool in parallel to working on: * More Mark Up * A big jump * XML files that contain all info about a license * Obsoleting spreadsheet * Better Mark Up * XML is familiar and available * Self-contained * Better to have the matching info in the data for tool consistency * Easier Contribution * Separate GIt repo, bugzilla, etc system make contribution awkward * Feels GitHub web interface streamlines all that, so advocating we migrate in that direction * Ideally all this reduces workload on Jilayne * Status * Has taken passes at converting licenses and submitted pull request * Still some issues he’ll work on this weekend. * Getting very close Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=2>] * Specification Update: * Good Collab Summit * Office hours talk kicked off with some good brainstorming on aggregating SPDX docs * Package referring to other packages and best ways to refer to and store relationships * Gary and Kris’ prevention was well received. * Spec review went very well * Bill and Yev are looking at adding some new classes * Helpful input from Robin Gandi * Looking for wider feedback in May and new release in June. * Possible August plug fest * FOSSology team did a talk that included SPDX * This week’s call * Addressed all open items from Collab Summit * Tools Update: * Bracing for spec to be finished to update tools * Kris has contributed some great tooling as well Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=3>] * Website * New site is now staged * Reviewed at Collab Summit * Some limitations we will need to work around * Navigation really needs sorting out * Still hoping for April launch * Webinars * Met with LF Marketing Team * Will help us with a webinar as a trial * Jack creating one pager to advertise * Suggested piggy backing on a new initiative being launched in July- Professional Open Source Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=4>] * License list v2.4 is up * Lots of work on new format that Kris talked about * Legal team needs to review how the output looks * And to take another pass at the licenses * Special legal team meeting today immediately following Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=5>] * Google SoC * We are on the list of LF projects * No requests yet, but expecting some * Still looking for special guest stars to speak at General Meetings * Jilayne has an idea for July. Attendees[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07&action=edit§ion=6>] * Phil Odence, Black Duck * Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation * Pierre LaPointe, nexB * Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM * Mark Gisi, Wind River * Michael Herzog- nexB * Dave Marr, Qualcomm * Jack Manbeck, TI * Kris Reeves * Scott Sterling, Palamida * Josiah Krutz, UNO * Matt Germonprez, UNO * Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor * Paul Madick, Dimension Data
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