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Outreach calls minutes

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-03-24

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Karen Bennet

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • ISO submission

Notes

  • GSoC
    • conformance checker
    • license checker browser plugin
    • license list website
  • ISO submission

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-03-31

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

Notes

  • Bob will be unavailable from next Thu (April 9th) till April 27th
  • discussion on signatures

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-03-24

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin

Agenda

  • update on standardization

Notes

  • standardization update
    • last OMG procedural vote went through
    • it's now an "OMG standard"
    • road open to submit to ISO
  • Bob will be unavailable April 9-20

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-03-10

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Validation

Notes

  • discussion on validation (SHACL rules)

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-02-10

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Brussels report
  • CRA
  • GSoC

Notes

  • Brussels report
    • FOSDEM SBOM devroom
    • pre-FOSDEM tool day
  • CRA
    • also Croissant for ML
    • Croissant cannot support relationships between dataset; nor origin/build information

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-01-27

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • OMG update
  • Podcast participation
  • Adoption update

Notes

  • OMG update
    • OMG has not approved the text
    • procedurally has to happen in a quarterly meeting
  • Podcast participation
  • Adoption of SPDXv3
  • Other
    • Croissant might be of interest
    • ServiceNow already implements SPDXv2
    • Microsoft SBOM-tool look to migrate to SPDXv3

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2025-01-13

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Karen Bennet

Agenda

  • FOSDEM
  • Updates

Notes

  • FOSDEM
    • SBOM devroomm full day on Sun 2 Feb
  • Hardware profile presented at next Tech call (tomorrow)
  • different groups pushing towards standards
  • OpenSSF created new SIGs for CRA compliance

–- everything below already in https://github.com/spdx/meetings/tree/main/outreach

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-12-16

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Karen Bennet
  • Victor Liu

Agenda

  • Go libs
  • updates

Notes

  • Go libraries for SPDXv3 not ready yet
  • Updates
    • FOSDEM
      • presentations accepted/rejected
      • schedule published
  • Open Source Stewards and Maintainers
    • OpenSSF establishes working group
    • Is SLSA competitive to SPDX?

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-12-02

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Victor Liu

Agenda

  • updates
  • spec diagrams
  • info on other efforts

Notes

  • Updates
    • FOSDEM
      • Deadline for submissions
      • 20+ submissions
      • now review
      • program to be announced on Dec 15th
    • Channels
      • Alexios told Sebastian to go ahead and delete unused Matrix and IRC channels
    • Ambassadors
      • proposal to be submitted to Steering Committee on Jan 7th
  • Model diagrams in spec
    • Alexios working on them
    • Do we need enumeration values?
      • No one is in favor
      • Alexios to prepare new versions and show them in Tech call
  • Other efforts
  • Kubernetes BOM tool
  • Request for podcast guest on SPDX by Viktor Petersson
  • AR: update presentations list
  • Next calls:
    • Alexios will be out next week
    • No calls during the two weeks of holidays

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-11-25

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall

Agenda

  • updates: FOSDEM, UO
  • LF member summit update

Notes

  • FOSDEM
    • deadline end of Nov (this week)
  • capstone project
    • Univ. of Oregon Comp. Sci. department
    • team of 6 students
  • LF member summit update

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-11-18

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter

Agenda

  • PDF update
  • old channels
  • SPDX Ambassadors

Notes

  • update on PDF for OMG/ISO
    • almost done
    • Bob and Alexios meeting Jory on Thursday
  • ancient communication channels
    • Sebastian wants to hand over Matrix and IRC channel
    • ask Kate about IRC / Matrix channels
    • two X/twitter accounts: SPDXTeam and SPDX_SBOM
  • Ilan is interested in modeling processes
    • propose the idea (what, why, how) and depending on the interest a new profile team might be formed
  • SPDX Ambassadors
    • Steering committee to decide on process and details
    • Then run by Outreach team

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-11-04

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter

Agenda

Notes

  • FOSDEM CfP sent to mailing lists

  • No feedback from OMG about the spec yet

  • Work needed:

    • Go over the website to find out what needs updating
    • Adoption needs tools; we need to find someone for the Go libraries
    • Java and Python are work-in-progress
    • Examples of SPDXv3 data

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-10-28

  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Gary O'Neall

Agenda

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-10-07

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Ilan Schifter

Agenda

  • PDF versions of the spec
  • SPDX website

Notes

  • PDFs of the 3.0.1 spec
    • Bob to connect with OMG editor
    • She is the final approver of the OMG document
    • The ISO document will go to OMG/LF standards people
  • Website
    • As soon as the spec is out of our hands, we should go through all pages and add mentions and references to SPDXv3

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-08-19

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Ilan Schifter

Agenda

  • Discussion on work on PDF generation
  • Ilan's questions

Notes

  • Discussion on work on PDF generation
  • Ilan's questions:
    • Q: where are the RDF files?
    • A: committed in the repo, https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/tree/development/v3.0.1/rdf
    • Q: I also need descriptions
    • A: you can run spec-parser and use the json dump
    • Q: anything else missing from the model, like listed licenses
    • A: nothing now, there will be a list of crypto algorithms in the future

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-08-12

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Kate Stewart

Agenda

Discussion on work on PDF generation

Notes

Discussion on work on PDF generation

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-08-05

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Ilan Schifter
  • Victor Liu

Agenda

  • Spec updates
  • Tools page on website
  • Ilan update

Notes

  • Spec updates
    • trying to finalize
  • Ilan trying to make videos
  • Discussion about the Dot tool with Ilan, which can be part of his video
    • Relationship between SpdxDocument and Sbom
    • The tool should not let the user create ListedLicense,
      as they can only be defined in the official SPDX License List.

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-07-29

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Victor Liu

Agenda

  • Tools page on website
  • Spec updates

Notes

  • Tools page on website
  • Spec updates
    • all contents
  • Lite
    • There are information differences (for example, in cardinality)
      between "Annex H: SPDX Lite" and the Lite Profile.

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-07-22

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall

Agenda

  • Spec structure
  • Other published documents
  • Tools

Notes

  • Spec structure
    • will also dicsuss it on tech call tomorrow
  • Other published docs
    • web presence: think about how to communicate new version
    • spdx/using repo: needs updating, after spec
  • Tools
    • question on slack
    • quick reply on issues, if no planned progress/resolution
  • Extensions of an SPDX file. OMG needs one extension per one file

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-07-15

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Karen Bennet

Agenda

  • spec Production
  • tutorial on SBOM per lifecycle
  • efforts to record standards and regulations

Notes

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-07-08

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin

Agenda

  • Tools update
  • Spec PDF production

Notes

  • Tools update
    • we still don't have the new setup on web site
    • we have got some replie from tools
    • we should probably add the information
    • Alexios to work with Gary on it
  • Alexios workign on the PDF production
    • open decisions for hierarchy and numbering

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-07-01

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin

Agenda

  • Updates

Notes

  • Alexios workign on the PDF production
  • Bob will contact OMG for introductory sections of the spec

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-06-24

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Update on PDF generation
  • Tools responses
  • Go libraries

Notes

  • Update on PDF generation
    • last week Alexios collaborated with Jason (from OMG) and found a way forward
  • Tools responses
    • still waiting for LF to provide info on web infrastructure (Zephyr-like)
    • one tool to be added to the website
  • Go libraries
    • GUAC waits for libraries

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-06-17

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Updates on initiatives
  • Updates on OMG production of spec PDF

Notes

  • ECMA has a new Technical Committee TC54 with two Task Groups, focusing on:

  • working with Jason Smith

    • Alexios explained the current production setup via email
    • Jason is using LaTeX to generate the output
    • short call to be arrnged in the week for sync up

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-06-10

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin

Agenda

  • OMG updates

Notes

  • Bob currently in OMG meeting
  • talked to Jason Smith, about tool for translating Markdown to PDF
  • OMG spec has history of collaboration section
  • maybe an informational annex/section
  • list of contributors
  • Bob to ask about links in documents
  • OMG finalization task force also interest in commercial viability

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-05-13

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

Notes

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-04-29

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Karen Bennet

Agenda

  • Letter for tools information
  • OSS EU
  • OMG review

Notes

  • Letter for tools information
    • some of the proprietary tools listed have no contact info
    • ask in General call about contact info
  • OSS EU
    • presentation about SPDX
    • ask via the mailing lists about attendance
    • decide about f2f event depending on response
  • OMG review
    • public commenting period ongoing
    • June meeting
    • mid-June finalization task force (FTF) starts
    • report on September
    • then to ISO

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-04-22

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Karen Bennet
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Conference feedback
  • Tools registration

Notes

  • Conference feedback
    • Open Source Summit North America
    • foss-northy
    • LLW
  • Tools registration
    • online form (GitHub issue template is live)
    • draft letter to existing tools
    • "with the release of 3.0, provide information"
    • fill in this form
    • feel free to attend SPDX implementors meeting

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-04-08

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary Armstrong
  • Maximilian Huber
  • Phil Odence

Agenda

  • SPDX 3.0 release

Notes

  • SPDX 3.0

    • Frozen model – for 3.0.0
      • Fix security json examples
    • Complete specification (besides model) – add annexes (can also be done in 3.0.1)
      • Lite Annex
      • Migration guide 2->3
    • Ontology RDF
    • JSON schema
    • Specification website
    • Specification PDF – not for the announcement
      • ODF looking at a tool to automatically generate it from Markdown input
    • Examples – a couple present; more nice to have (in JSON)

  • Tools

    • Decide on a plan/timeline
    • Alexios and Bob to reach out and ask for updated data (after announcement)
    • Phil and Gary to work on "infrastructure"
      • Gary to implement reply form (GitHub issue template)
      • Phil to coordinate with LF for Zephyr-like presentation of tools

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-03-04

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Karen Bennet
  • Maximilian Huber
  • Phil Odence
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Tools

Notes

  • Tools

    • list of SPDX website
    • Zephyr landscape
      • WordPress plugin
    • OpenSSF SBOM landscape
      • GitHub repo (and published pages)
      • We can get data from there!
    • AR: Gary to create an issue template to collect all data needed

  • Calendar(s)

    • AR: make it visible in meetings repo

  • Next week:

    • update timeline for collecting tool data

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-02-26

Attendees:

  • Gary O'Neall
  • Phil Odence
  • Victor Lu
  • Robert Martin
  • Karen Bennet

Minutes

Discussion on use cases and minutes

  • Victor will look into better use case documentation including examples
  • We could start with Security - follow-up with Jeff Schutt
  • Consider having a technical presentation about GUAC to compliment the user-level presentation previously given.

Blog post

Video

  • Karen asked if there was budget for a video production on SPDX 3.0
  • We have a crowd funded budget that could be used
  • Cost would be in the order of magnitude of $1K

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-02-19

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • 3.0-rc2
  • Outreach discussion (Victor)

Notes

  • 3.0-rc2
    • Frozen on Saturday 2024-02-17
    • PDF not ready (missing: section and page numbering, etc.)
    • Bob in the process of making it by hand
  • Outreach
    • Slack channel
    • Perception

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SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-02-12

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

Notes

Discussion on SDPX adoption and friendliness

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SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-01-22

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Maximilian Huber
  • Phil Odence
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • FOSDEM face-to-face meeting
  • new outreach ideas
    • Slack channel
    • blog post on SPDX

Notes

  • FOSDEM face-to-face meeting

    • Friday afternoon, after Philippe's event
    • AR: Alexios to email tech list

  • Slack channel

  • blog post on SPDX

    • from developer's view
    • SPDX is complicated, scares people away
    • easy steps on how to use the tools
    • SPDX also has verification features
    • we could publish a simpler JSON schema
    • we could publish a new version, unrelated (but interoperable)
    • there are critical business needs
    • may have simpler format, that can be automatically converted to full

–-

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-01-15

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • blog post on SPDXv3

Notes

–-

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-01-08

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Maximilian Huber
  • Phil Odence

Agenda

  • Request for new tool inclusion
  • Industry Advisory Group
  • F2F in FOSDEM

Notes

  • addition of new tool

  • Industry Advisory Group

    • shall we have an SPDX group for industry reach-out?
    • once a month, external participants
    • user view, what hinders adoption/use
    • ask what Outreach can do to help
    • specific meetings with specific people
    • need structure/agenda/…
    • Gary will create a propose in email to the outreach team
    • Decide in the following outreach meeting if we want to invite others

  • face to face in FOSDEM

    • probably not in the days of conference (weekend)
    • send an email asking for attendance and timeslot preferences

–-

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2023-12-18

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Phil Odence

Agenda

  • FOSDEM update
  • sponsorship request
  • Tool inclusion

Notes

  • FOSDEM
    • schedule done!
    • 17 talks and 2 panels
    • emails later this week
  • sponsorship request
  • Tool inclusion

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SPDX Outreach Meeting 2023-12-11

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Phil Odence

Agenda

  • Compliance Summit report
  • FOSDEM news
  • Tool inclusion
  • Specification update

Notes

  • Report from Compliance Summit
    • Lots of support for SPDX in Asian community
    • Huawei interest for OpenEuler
    • Bloomberg (Alyssa Wright) also interested; they use CycloneDX currently
  • FOSDEM
    • CfP closed
    • 48 submissions
    • Still to come: review, decisions, scheduling
  • Tool inclusion
    • Max has provided SBOM checking functionality
    • if it fails, negative results are also shown
    • badges: passed (new) criteria, contributed quick start
    • we need dedicated meeting for this
  • Update on SPDX specification production
    • tooling should be in place for 3.0RC2
    • generating HTML pages and PDF (not ISO format)

–-

SPDX Outreach Meeting 2023-11-27

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Phil Odence
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • Tool inclusion

Notes

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SPDX Outreach Meeting 2023-11-20

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Phil Odence

Agenda

  • Tool inclusion
  • FOSDEM

Notes

  • Tool inclusion

    • No need to validate input
    • have a disclaimer like "Information provided by tools"
    • annual check whether info is still accurate
    • separate their validation from inclusion process
    • bring it to next Steering Committee call, Tue 28 Nov

  • FOSDEM

    • CfP published

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SPDX Outreach Meeting 2024-mm-dd

Attendees

  • Alexios Zavras
  • Bob Martin
  • Gary O'Neall
  • Maximilian Huber
  • Phil Odence
  • Tim Mackey
  • Victor Lu

Agenda

  • FOSDEM
  • SPDXv3 readiness

Notes

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