Awareness activities

Background

We need to promote our activity:

• Writing blog posts
• Providing talks

are obvious actions to develop.

Rationale

As open source project, outreach is essential to get the list used and also to bring contributors.

Description

We will develop some activities to raise awareness of the work done by the List:

• Provide a monthly summary of our progress in the SPDX Monthly Meeting
• Write quarterly about what the Cryptography Group does and progress on the List
• Provide talks at open source and cryptography events

Actions

Blog posts:

• Introduction and 2025Q4 report
• 2026Q1 report
• 2026Q2 report
• 2026Q3 report
• 2026Q3 report

DoD

• Link to the initial report: https://toscalix.com/2025/10/14/introducing-the-spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-a-personal-view/
• Link to 2026Q1 report: https://toscalix.com/2026/02/24/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-february-2026-update/
• Link to 2026Q2 report: https://toscalix.com/2026/05/28/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-spring-2026-update/
• Link to 2026Q3 report:
• Link to 2026Q4 report:

Start with the unchecked quarterly report items and review the linked 2025Q4, 2026Q1, and 2026Q2 reports for the expected format. Done means the remaining report links are added and the listed awareness activities are documented, including monthly updates and talks.