Matt Germonprez gave a great overview of the wonderful work they are doing

Slides available on the minutes page

Legal Team is looking for feedback on the license inclusion guidelines by April 11.

See Jilayne's March 28 email to this list for more detail

Please participate in the SPDX survey and help to promote to others

Will be launching week of Collab Summit; keep your eyes peeled.

It's still possible to sign up for the Collaboration Summit April 15-16 in SF. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit  There will an SPDX-specific track and working meetings on the Tuesday before.

 

April 4 at the usual time. Note that Europe will be on daylight time by then, so back to normal time diff.

We will have a presentation from Matt Germonprez from the University of Nebraska to discuss their SPDX work. 

We'll move thru the normal agenda quickly and then turn it over to Matt for about 30 mins. 

He'll be sharing his screen, so please plan to be near a computer. 

Feel free to invite colleagues who might be interested. 

As part of our migration of the web site to the Linux Foundation, we
decided a few months ago to move the SPDX development area to a proper
wiki (MediaWiki). This will make collaboration easier and offer some
features that have been requested in the past.

I've been working on migrating our existing content over to MediaWiki.
I've finished this work and I'd like to invite feedback on the new wiki:
http://sandbox.spdx.org/index.php/Main_Page

It would be great if each team leader (with the help of volunteers)
could look through their areas on the new wiki to check if all content
has been migrated properly. I tested everything thoroughly but with
around 380 pages I'm sure I made some mistakes (on the other hand, I
also fixed some formatting issues I found on the current wiki).

If you find any issues, please email me. Do *not* makes fixes on the
wiki as this is just a temporary wiki.

Since this wiki is just a temporary site, feel free to make changes in
order to get familiar with MediaWiki. Here's a page explaining the
MediaWiki syntax: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting>
I will prepare a guide on how to use the new wiki before we migrate.
If you make changes to the test wiki, make sure to inform other people
who have volunteered to check the wiki, so your changes won't be
reported as problems with the conversion.

Until we migrate to the new wiki, you can still makes changes to the
current wiki (i.e. nothing changes for now). I'll incorporate any
changes into the new wiki before we migrate officially.

Below are more details for those interest.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Martin


## What has been migrated

* All wiki pages (about 380) including their history (past revisions)
* All attachments from wiki pages
* All users who made changes to the wiki (see below for a list)
* No comments (I'll try to look into this later but this is low priority)

## Notes on the conversion

* URLs: I changed all URLs to make them more wiki-like. I tried to use a scheme that makes sense but you can obviously disagree with my choice. The URL scheme uses sub pages to add a hierarchy (like we have on the current site). If the URL scheme doesn't make sense, let me know.
* Past revisions: I performed the conversion in 2 steps: 1) for all historical revisions of a page, I imported the HTML as an exact copy -- this works fairly well but not 100% as MediaWiki doesn't accept all HTML tags (specifically, links). 2) The latest revision of each page has been converted to MediaWiki markup; as a result, the pages are cleaner, easier to edit and look more unified.
* User names: I migrated existing user names (if the user made a wiki edit); if you'd like a more "wiki-style" user name (FirstLast is popular), let me know
* File names: some files had _ in their file name; MediaWiki doesn't like this so I changed _ to -
* HTML attachments: MediaWiki doesn't accept HTML attachments. I put the existing attachments in manually but you won't be able to upload HTML attachments in the future. This may impact the technical team.

## Known Issues

* Attachments can only be downloaded when logged in
* Comments have not been migrated
* I need to write a guide on how to use the new wiki
* There's no WYSIWYG editor on this wiki but there will be one once we migrate
* Category links are not working

## Users that have been migrated

Let me know if you're not listed here but think you should be.

* Adam Cohn
* Bruno Cornec
* bschineller@... -> Bschineller [no @ allowed in MediaWiki user names]
* Eaw
* Fmunoz
* Goneall
* Grouss
* Ibrahimhaddad
* JNW
* JackM
* Jason Buttura
* Jlovejoy
* Jnweiger
* K.stewart
* Knewcomer
* Kweins
* Mclow
* Mgisi
* Mjherzog
* Pezra
* Phil
* Phil_koltun
* Pierre
* Podence
* Pombredanne
* Rockett
* Slamons
* Stcroppe
* tbm -> MartinMichlmayr

--
Martin Michlmayr
Open Source Program Office, Hewlett-Packard

 

The schedules are online here:

 

http://collaborationsummit2013.sched.org/overview/type/spdx#.UTZlzzfm7v0

 

Information on the Collaboration Summit can be found here:

 

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

From: Phil Odence <podence@...>
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:52 AM
To: "spdx@..." <spdx@...>
Subject: SPDX General Meeting Minutes and New Schedule

Here are the meeting minutes from the January 10 General Meeting:

http://spdx.org/wiki/2013110-general-meeting-minutes

Going forward, we will go to a monthly schedule for the General Meeting. Recall that the purpose of the General Meeting is simply for each group to report out on progress, and the feeling is that a monthly reporting is sufficient. I will continue to issue minutes to the list and encourage anyone with interest in SPDX to sign up for this list to receive a monthly summary. We keep the traffic on this list low so as not to be burdensome to folks who just want to keep their fingers on the pulse. The real work gets done on the respective team lists.

So, going forward, the General Meetings will be held at the same time, 11am US Eastern, on the first Thursday of every month. The next one is February 7. I have not historically, used a calendar invite, but that is becoming a custom of the teams, so I will follow suit. Please don't respond to me, as this is a big list and I don’t want to be flooded with responses.

Lastly, let me put in a plug for a couple of volunteers to work with Jack on maintaining the website. This is not a big commitment, probably no more than a few hours a week, but it would be very helpful. Let know if you have any interest.

Best,

Phil

L. Philip Odence

Vice President of Business Development

Black Duck Software, Inc.

8 New England Executive Park, Suite 211, Burlington MA 01803

Phone: 781.810.1819, Mobile: 781.258.9502

Skype: philip.odence

podence@...

http://www.blackducksoftware.com

http://twitter.com/podence

http://www.linkedin.com/in/podence

http://www.networkworld.com/community/odence (my blog)

Good catch, Camille! I have made the change in the master file, but it
may not show up on the website until we push another version. This could
be a few months, as v1.17 was just released. I'll see about making an
incremental change in the meantime...

Thanks!

Jilayne

Hi all,

I think there is a typo on http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Clear : the licence has "BSD-3-Clause-Clear" as ID but "BSD 2-clause "Clear" License" as full name (also on http://spdx.org/licenses/ ).

Cheers,
Camille

When: Occurs every month on the first Thursday of the month from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM effective 2/7/2013. (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Where: Bridge info enclosed

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