W3C

- DRAFT -

Solid Community Group Weekly update

13 Feb 2020

Attendees

Present
csarven, KjetilK, nicolasS, Sherry, David, Erwingson, Travis, Mitzi, Ali, Plop, Yungxin
Regrets
Chair
csarven
Scribe
Nicolas

Contents


<scribe> Scribe: Nicolas

Alejandro: Involved with Solid as a mentor/project manager for students developping a Solid app dring their master. Next week, participates in an event organized by Jorge Labra in Oviedo, and will introduce Solid to the audience.

Travis: Organizes a meetup in San Fransisco 24th Feb.

David: Hosted a Solid Meetup in November, works with the Canadian federal govnmt.

Justin: Works with JD, involved in the data interoperability panel
...: Currently working on Footprints and shapes to enable interoperability between apps

Ali: Organized Solid Karthoum

Mitzi: Proposal to organize a joined Solid event accross different cities by synchronizing effort of organizers of previous Solid meetups

David: A worldwide event would be fantastic. During the event it would be interesting to have people creating their Pods and have some way of reaching out
...: Having people follow on ongoing events via multiple channels is quite hard, so a central Pod would help

Sherry: this could be a feature of the Portal app that is being developped. This would not be a Q1 goal thogh

Mitzi: This could be a shared development effort

Ali: Solid could be the killer app of the Semantic Web. Currently organizing a Solid Workshop following the Solid Khartoum meetup

Mitzi: It would be nice to have a synchronization about the dates, to propose that Solid events happen on for instance the first wednesday of each month

Sherry: +1

Mitzi: Proposal of the first Thursday of the month

Sherry: What form of events are we talking about ?

Mitzi: Multiple types of events exist:
...: - Academic events, organized in a more formal setting
... - very informal meetups, in bars and such
... - Industry-oriented events
... - Technical meetups, even in the form of hackathons

csarven: And you're more than welcome to innovate with any form of event that you see fit :)

KjetilK: inrupt employee, academic record in the Semantic Web. Involved in the specification and in the test suite

nicolasS: inrupt employee, academic record in the Semantic Web, scribing

erwingson: Involved in the open identity provider, experimenting with the ecosystem

csarven: Anyone can contribute to This Week in Solid newsletter by submitting PRs to the Solid repo

Mitzi: action item to provide a dial-in so that people can drop in each other events when synchronized

Sherry: Solid Toronto organizer
...: With a a few devlopers and designers in Canada, China and US, I am working on a project called Portal, which is designed to be a personal portal where users access data in any POD.

David: Involved in the Distributed ID connect project, and wishes to make Solid a part of that

csarven: Are there any confusions as to where things are and when information can be seeked ?

David: Is the conversation to be carried on on the solid-events gitter channel ?

Mitzi: Yes

<scribe> ACTION: Mitzi will share the dial-in links

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Mitzi will share the dial-in links
 

Summary of Resolutions

[End of minutes]

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by David Booth's scribe.perl version 1.154 (CVS log)
$Date: 2020/02/13 15:48:50 $

Scribe.perl diagnostic output

[Delete this section before finalizing the minutes.]
This is scribe.perl Revision: 1.154  of Date: 2018/09/25 16:35:56  
Check for newer version at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/scribe/

Guessing input format: Irssi_ISO8601_Log_Text_Format (score 1.00)

Present: csarven KjetilK nicolasS Sherry David Erwingson Travis Mitzi Ali Plop Yungxin
No ScribeNick specified.  Guessing ScribeNick: nicolasS
Found Scribe: Nicolas

WARNING: No "Topic:" lines found.

Found Date: 13 Feb 2020
People with action items: mitzi

WARNING: No "Topic: ..." lines found!  
Resulting HTML may have an empty (invalid) <ol>...</ol>.

Explanation: "Topic: ..." lines are used to indicate the start of 
new discussion topics or agenda items, such as:
<dbooth> Topic: Review of Amy's report


WARNING: IRC log location not specified!  (You can ignore this 
warning if you do not want the generated minutes to contain 
a link to the original IRC log.)


[End of scribe.perl diagnostic output]