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Phil Odence
Vice President of Business Development
podence@blackducksoftware.com
As I described in a previous blog, Evolving Standards for License Data, I am co-chairing a working group of the Linux Foundation developing a standard called SPDX™ (or Software Package Data Exchange™). The group has been open to essentially anyone interested, but to date we have not made the specification publically available. We are shooting for putting Version 1 “in the can” and making it publically available to coincide with LinuxCon Boston in early August.

What’s that? You can’t wait? Well, in the meantime, if you happen to be at OSCON,  please stop by the FOSSBazaar/SPDX station at the HP booth. I’ll be there and would be happy to discuss it. And, check out my whitepaper on SPDX. It provides a fairly detailed description of the scope of the specification.

Finally, if you are interested in participating, we do now have a website, http://www.spdx.org/, which is looking pretty dull today, but does tell you how you can get involved, and will soon sport a logo and house much more information about SPDX.

Courtney Spencer
cspencer@blackducksoftware.com
Our partner, the Olliance Group (www.OllianceGroup.com), is hosting an educational webinar on Enterprise open source software procurement and support best practices.

Since open source software licensing and distribution models are markedly different than those used with proprietary software, significant challenges are presented to traditional supply chain or procurement organizations. The resolution is then finding high-quality open source solutions and systems integrators to implement them.

In this webinar, IT Executives, Colin Bodell of Amazon, Tim Golden of Bank of America and Yuvi Kochar of the Washington Post Company, will talk about the open source software acquisition and support challenges they have faced and share solutions they have developed to overcome these challenges.

Webinar: Enterprise Open Source Software Procurement and Support Best Practices

Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2010

Time: July 15^th at 11:00am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Moderator: Greg Olson, Senior Partner, Olliance Group

Speakers:

• Colin Bodell, VP Web Platforms, Amazon

• Tim Golden, SVP Product Management, Bank of America

• Yuvi Kochar, CIO, The Washington Post Company

Cost: No charge

Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/133800513