<McCool> agenda: https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/wiki/Main_WoT_WebConf#6_May_2020

<scribe> scribenick: kaz

Welcome

McCool: any guests?

(none)

McCool: new participants from Access?
... maybe next week

Invited Expert nominations

McCool: nobody today
... the Chairs and the Team Contacts will continue to handle the applications

Prev minutes

<McCool> https://www.w3.org/2020/04/29-wot-minutes.html

McCool: (goes through the minutes)

<McCool> https://github.com/w3c/wot/blob/master/PRESENTATIONS/2020-05-01-WoT-EdgeX-Connexus.pdf

McCool: there was a meeting with EdgeX
... slides above
... typo with "logisitics"
... any objections to publish the minutes?

(none)

Quick updates

McCool: still working on the questionnaire for AC 2020
... conflicts with the discovery call, so discovery meeting on May 18 is cancelled
... Govtech call held on May 5
... reviewed use cases
... will continue the detailed discussion during the Architecture call (and then the dedicated Use Cases call)
... will be merged with the retail discussion
... wiki page is already ready

PoC wiki

McCool: Next meeting May 19, on "Smart City", then will alternate between Smart City and Retail PoC discussions
... on 19th, smart city discussion and then AC meeting

Separate use case call

McCool: doodle poll is available

Doodle to decide the use case slot

Lagally: proposal to avoid IP issues, etc.
... created a doodle poll to decide the date/time
... 5 responses so far, and would get more
... dedicated focus on use cases
... the plan is starting with the next week
... so please shift the date on the doodle poll by one week
... please respond by the end of this week

McCool: the architecture call is cancelled this week?

Lagally: the first call will be cancelled
... but we'll have the second call

F2F planning updates

McCool: confirmed joint workshop with T2TRG will be held on June 8
... but it's confusing to have both the agenda items (one for our f2f and another for the workshop) on the wiki
... so will reorganize it
... there is a tentative list for the T2TRG workshop

T2TRG workshop topics

McCool: and requests to speak

requests to speak

McCool: there will be a call of T2TRG on Friday next week
... if you want to give a talk, please add your name and topic here
... (then go through our own schedule)

f2f schedule

[[

June 9: 9am-11am Atlantic (2h)

June 10: 9am-12am Atlantic (3h)

June 11: 10am-12am Atlantic (2h)

June 12: 9am-12am Atlantic (3h)

]]

McCool: tentative topics

[[

Scripting

Security

Discovery

PlugFest/Testing

Marketing

Architecture

Thing Description

Binding Templates

]]

Koster: oneDM topic?

McCool: we can manage 20 hours or so if needed
... the negative side is we need to cancel our ordinary calls
... let's talk about what to discuss first
... and then see how long time we need
... please respond to the doodle to pick date/time

<McCool> https://doodle.com/poll/gucnmwm87khskxfm

McCool: good news is that W3C System Team is willing to support us for VPN setting
... asking if it would be OK to run the VPN on AWS
... would respond to them saying OK
... will aim to have it up from May 25 - June 7
... someone need to set up a router
... volunteers?

Koster: I'm totally busy now...
... very interested, though

McCool: maybe we can find some existing instructions?

Koster: can work on that

McCool: we need to clarify the number of the plugfest participants
... would respond to the Systeam saying around 12

Koster: starting with two CPU setting?

McCool: would give the Systeam a heads-up
... network setting would be more problematic
... note that we'll transfer the logistics information on the T2TRG workshop to their side
... the question is that they usually record their workshop and publish that on YouTube
... should ask the whole group by email as well
... we need group consensus about this

TPAC questionnaire

McCool: still on the pipeline
... please respond to the questionnaire

restricted TPAC questionnaire for the WoT participants

McCool: (shows his own response as an example)
... the question 2 about joint meetings is a bit confusing
... pick one from the menu and then put other candidates on the comments field

TF reports

Daniel: Scripting
... kind of postponed to merge the proposal
... issues on implementations on OAuth2
... still discussion ongoing

McCool: Security
... looked at the lifecycle
... also looked at the use case/requirements template
... add fields to the template
... smart city health monitoring use case, etc.
... Oliver will look into cross protocols
... Discovery
... had an additional discussion with LinkSmart guys
... query of data
... how to control metadata back from the directory
... if the data is single data, would be very big
... extra data when/how to handle the time with
... make support for time mandatory
... the other question about how to handle extra data from the directory?
... based on the signature?
... need to wrap up all the decisions as a document
... need to go through the design decisions so far
... PlugFest/Testing
... no call last week
... we have a backlog to do
... Koster, can you join the PF/Testing call next week?

Koster: let me check
... yes

McCool: Marketing?

Sebastian: some discussion on explainer video
... decided to have a video made by a professional animator
... will ask W3C MarComm Team, etc., about possible candidates
... also will ask some more people
... a question about if we have a call tomorrow
... maybe should cancel it?

McCool: would have a call tomorrow
... we should also participate in the W3C site redesign discussion
... would talk about that as well during the Marketing call

Sebastian: ok
... we also talked about McCool's presentation for the edgeX call

<McCool> https://github.com/w3c/wot/blob/master/PRESENTATIONS/2020-05-01-WoT-EdgeX-Connexus.pdf

McCool: slides above

Daniel: btw, we talked about the WoT logo as well

McCool: yes
... we got permission to use from the author
... anything else?
... Architecture?

Lagally: 2 calls as usual last week
... presentation on new use case for smart energy grid
... updated proposal on lifecycle
... discussion will be continued tomorrow
... consolidate all the use cases and go into a deeper layer
... tomorrow, the first call will be cancelled
... but the second call will be held for the lifecycle discussion, etc.
... please provide your response for the use case slot doodle

McCool: TD/Binding?

Sebastian: no call last week
... this Friday
... would make progress on hypermedia
... would be great to have Ben

Ben: sorry but public holiday in UK

Sebastian: ok
... would start the discussion anyway
... great to have your comments on GitHub

Ben: ok

McCool: a comment on MQTT
... maybe we could invite him to one of our calls

Sebastian: TD call?

McCool: possibly

Sebastian: ok
... we should ask him if he's aware of the Binding Template mechanism

McCool: already mentioned that

Sebastian: we're working on vocabulary for MQTT

McCool: good to talk with users

Koster: good to have some tutorials

McCool: should talk about that during the marketing call

Koster: would be part of that

Sebastian: would make sense to invite that guy to the TD call then

McCool: anything else?
... need to reboot the profile discussion
... OK to reopen it during the Architecture call (after finishing the lifecycle discussion)?

Lagally: that's the plan

Sebastian: yesterday, I got in touch with a new GitHub project

<sebastian> https://github.com/joshco/wot_powerpoint

McCool: should maintain the information within the marketing activity

Sebastian: very easy to use it

McCool: that is one of the media control use cases

<McCool> https://w3c.github.io/wot-marketing/developers/

Sebastian: (shows the WoT welcome page)

<McCool> https://github.com/w3c/wot-marketing/blob/master/docs/developers/index.html

McCool: would generate a PR to update the page with the information
... anything else?

(none)

[main call adjourned; PlugFest call starts in 6 mins]