General Meeting/Minutes/2015-12-03

• Attendance: 7
• Lead by Phil Odence

• Minutes of Nov meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Gary[edit]

• 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

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit]

• • 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

Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]

• 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

Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

• 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

Attendees[edit]

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor 
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Dave Marr, Qualcomm
• Dave McLaughlin, Rogue Wave
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data