Funding SPDX Tool Hosting…$284 to go to our goal: Thanks to a number of contributions (and especially generous contributions from OpenChain, Qualcomm and our own Jilayne) we’ve blown past our phase 1 goal to fund this year and are well on our way to phase 2 to fund next year.

Still a little way to go; if you’ve not already, please contribute: https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/f0e320d6-9c86-4656-ad4d-97842f25b124

THANKS!

Phil Odence

GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, Sept 3, 8am PT / 10 am CT / 11am ET / 15:00 UTC.  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:

New dial in number: 415-881-1586

No PIN needed

The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at: 
http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam

Administrative Agenda

Attendance

Minutes Approval 

Website – Input on moving forward with updates (review Tuesday email)

Technical Team Report – Steve

Legal Team Report – Jilayne/Paul/Steve

Outreach Team Report – Jack

Any Cross Functional Issues –All

All,

The SPDX Core Team has been working on a long overdue update to some of the web content that describes the spec and the project. Below is what we’ve come up with. We think it’s good to go, but at the Thurs General Meeting will see if anyone has concerns that would merit scheduling a meeting to discuss in more detail.

Thanks,

Phil

----- Short summary for top of main page, https://spdx.dev/ and anywhere else a short summary is needed/used ------

SPDX is an open standard for communicating software bill of material information, including provenance, license, security, and other related information. SPDX reduces redundant work by providing common formats for organizations  and communities to share important data, thereby streamlining and improving compliance, security, and dependability.

------------ FOR NEW ABOUT PAGE ----------------------------

Our Vision

The vision of SPDX is to reduce redundant work by providing common formats for organizations and communities to share important data, thereby streamlining and improving compliance, security, and dependability. 

Our Mission

The mission of SPDX is to develop and promote open standards for communicating software bill of material information, including provenance, license, security, and other related information. 

About

SPDX is an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation. The grass-roots effort includes representatives from a diverse set of organizations—software, systems and tool vendors, foundations and systems integrators. Work is done by two sub-groups: the tech team and the legal team. There is also a monthly general call which provides an overview of progress on the entire project. For more information about getting involved, see the Participate page.

The SPDX project is composed of:

• The SPDX Specification itself
• the SPDX License List (including exceptions, matching guidelines, license IDs, and license expression syntax)
• SPDX tools and libraries for working with the SPDX documents and SPDX License List

Guiding principles

• SPDX represents data in formats that are both machine- and human-readable.
• SPDX focuses on collecting and communicating facts; and provides a framework to make assertions about those facts.
• SPDX makes no legal interpretations (of licenses or license compliance).
• SPDX facilitates the efficient exchange of metadata in the supply chain. 

Governance Model

The SPDX Governance model is documented here.

------------END  FOR NEW ABOUT PAGE ----------------------------

Thanks to Paul for hosting in my absence.

https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-09-03

Best,

Phil

L. Philip Odence

General Manager, Black Duck Audit Business

Synopsys Software Integrity Group, Burlington, MA

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I have a conflict, so Paul will run the show today. Normal agenda, so it should not go the full hour.

Funding SPDX Tool Hosting…$800 to go to our goal: Thanks to a number of contributions we’ve blown past our phase 1 goal to fund this year and are well on our way to phase 2 to fund next year. You can still contribute: https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/f0e320d6-9c86-4656-ad4d-97842f25b124

GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, Sept 3, 8am PT / 10 am CT / 11am ET / 15:00 UTC.  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:

New dial in number: 415-881-1586

No PIN needed

The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at: 
http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam

Administrative Agenda

Attendance

Minutes Approval 

Technical Team Report – Kate/Gary

Legal Team Report – Jilayne/Paul/Steve

Outreach Team Report – Jack

Any Cross Functional Issues –All

https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-08-06

< General Meeting‎ | Minutes

·         Attendance: 14

·         Lead by Phil Odence

·         Minutes of Aug meeting

Contents

 [hide] 

·         1 Presentation - GSoC Smith Tanjong Agbor

·         2 Tech Team Report - Kate / Gary

·         3 Legal Team Report - Paul/Steve

·         4 Outreach Team Report

·         5 Cross Functional

·         6 Attendees

·         Validating License Cross References

·         Spec

·         2.1 is in good shape

·         Ready to submit to ISO

·         Many big thanks to Steve, Jack, Rex and others for great work

·         Should be an ISO Spec in 4-5 months

·         Also looking at 3.0 for ISO

·         Tools

·         Community Bridge funding project

·         We are through phase 1 (funding for this year)

·         On track for phase 2 next year

·         Should have new infrastructure up in the next month or two

·         Including real URL

·         and SSL for security

·         GSoC

·         All projects are progressing quite well

·         All students have passed 2nd evaluation

·         Aveek started this for SPDX (in addition to LF) and it’s been great for us

·         We get more slots as a consequence

·         License List

·         Monday we relapsed 3.10 license list

·         20 new ones

·         Joint meeting upcoming with the tech team to look at 3.0

·         No Update

·          

·         Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys

·         David Wheeler, Linux Foundation

·         Mark Baushke, Juniper

·         Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation

·         Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor

·         Paul Madick

·         Michael Herzog- nexB

·         Steve Winslow, LF

·         Michael Herzog- nexB

·         Matije Suklje, Liferay

·         Aveek, NextMark Printers

·         Alexios Zavras, Intel

·         Michael Richardson

·         Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation

Special Presentation by Tanjong Agbor Smith, one of our Google Summer of Code students

Here’s how Tanjong describes himself and his work: I am Tanjong Agbor smith, enrolled in a Masters degree in Computing Science at the University of Alberta. This is my second GSOC contribution for spdx; my first was last year(GSOC 2019) with the License List namespaces project which was a success. I shall be talking about a Google summer of code project titled "Validate license list cross references". This project emanates from a github issue raised, and seeks to provide more information on the validity of urls listed in license files.

Funding SPDX Tool Hosting: I’ll also mention that thanks to a number of contributions we’ve blown past our phase 1 goal to fund this year and are well on our way to phase 2 to fund next year. You can still contribute: https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/f0e320d6-9c86-4656-ad4d-97842f25b124

GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, Aug 6, 8am PT / 10 am CT / 11am ET / 15:00 UTC.  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:

New dial in number: 415-881-1586

No PIN needed

The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at: 
http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam

Administrative Agenda

Attendance

Minutes Approval 

Presentation

Technical Team Report – Kate/Gary

Legal Team Report – Jilayne/Paul/Steve

Outreach Team Report – Jack

Any Cross Functional Issues –All

Hi Shane,

There are a couple of community bridge related topics we could cover.

For the SPDX online tools, I’m planning on presenting to the OpenChain tools workgroup in Sept.

We could also present as part of a webinar.

Another interesting topic would be the work the interns and GSoC students are doing for the tools more generally.

We have a number of mentors and students involved – perhaps some of the mentors would be interested in jointly presenting?

Gary

I actually tried to implement this in a serverless environment (it was my first choice), but there is persistent state required for some of the components.  As Alexios points out – a good future project.

The PostgreSQL is necessary as a DB backend.  It also uses Redis – but this doesn’t seem to add too much complexity.  We have some projects underway to reduce the dependency on Java – it would be great to make this all python sometime in the future.

BTW – Anyone interested in reviewing and contributing can review the issues listed here: https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/issues/199

Gary

Rewriting this to a simpler setup is definitely a valid idea for a future Community Bridge / GSoC project. 😉

-- zvr

Hi Mark,

Yes – SPDX is using AWS for the hosting (see https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/issues/194 for a discussion on the hosting options).

The deployment is a bit complex (Java/Python/Django/PostgreSQL).

Any credits/help is appreciated.

I registered the account that is hosting the site – so feel free to contact me for additional details.

Gary

Is SPDX using AWS for any hosting?  I can probably get gratis AWS credits provided to SPDX.

And since SPDX is using Github, then Github pages can be used to host HTML/CSS/JS

..m

Mark Atwood <atwoodm@...>

Principal, Open Source

+1-206-604-2198