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Social Web Working Group Teleconference

24 Feb 2015

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
bblfish, Arnaud, aaronpk, +1.617.247.aaaa, ben_thatmustbeme, tantek, +1.857.445.aabb, eprodrom, harry, bret, +1.408.335.aacc, rhiaro, KevinMarks, bill-looby, Ann, Sandro, Tsyesika, wilkie, cwebber2
Regrets
Chair
tantek
Scribe
aaronpk

Contents





<trackbot> Date: 24 February 2015

<rhiaro> Hmm Zakim doesn't seem to want to talk to me today

<tantek> rhiaro keep trying

<cwebber2> here neither :\

<cwebber2> I might have to phone-dial

<rhiaro> It's just silent, I'm not even getting the 'welcome'

<tantek> rhiaro redial

took me a couple tries

<tantek> zakim must know it's about to be retired

<rhiaro> This is new. I keep trying.

<bret> Zakim: mute me

<tantek> anyone else having trouble calling in?

<cwebber2> tantek: I'm having trouble

<cwebber2> I'm going to try my phone once it boots, but SIP is not working.

<KevinMarks> 1.408.335.aacc is me

<harry> chair: tantek

<eprodrom> Hooray for aaronpk

<harry> scribenick: aaronpk

<harry> scribe: aaronpk

<bret> aaronpk++

<Loqi> aaronpk has 713 karma

<bret> you have to omit the +

<bill-looby> thanks !

minutes from last week

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2015-02-17-minutes

tantek: any objections? otherwise I move to approve them

<eprodrom> +1

tantek: any +1s on the minutes?

<cwebber2> +1

<eprodrom> ha ha

<ben_thatmustbeme> +1

<eprodrom> My -0 finger is tired

tantek: minutes approved not seeing any objections

next week's telcon

tantek: scheduled for the 3rd, Arnaud will be chairing
... next f2f is coming up on march 17th

<Loqi> I added a countdown for 3/17 12:00am (#5639)

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2015-03-17#Participation

tantek: there are 10 people RSVPd, please RSVP to the meeting ASAP
... book your travel and such
... ify you want to participate remotely there is a section for th that as well

Annotation WG

tantek: I proposed in IRC that we formally invite any member of the annotation WG to considering attending our meeting as observer

<Loqi> Rhiaro made 2 edits to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82351&oldid=82345

<Loqi> Abasset made 2 edits to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82350&oldid=82346

<Loqi> Bret made 2 edits to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82352&oldid=82347

tantek: observer means attending a WG meeting but is not a member, it doesn't mean they can't speak

<Loqi> Sandro made 1 edit to Socialwg/2015-03-17 https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82353&oldid=81716

<bblfish> +1

<harry> will do

<AnnB> +1

tantek: since we'll be talking about the storeies at the f2f, invite the annotation members to the meeting

<rhiaro> +1

<harry> +1

<ben_thatmustbeme> +1 sounds good to me, more input is better

<harry> I'm not sure who is local, but I think if someone is that would be great

<wilkie> +1

<tantek> ack ??P5

<rhiaro> oh I thought I was p5, I was trying to figure out who I was

<eprodrom> Grrr not working

<eprodrom> I'll pass

<eprodrom> Just wanted to note that I think this was the subject of discussion at TPAC

<eprodrom> And I agree, +1

<eprodrom> When we met with Annotations

tantek: harry can we action you to contact the annotation WG and extend an invitation on behalf of the social WG?
... it'd be great to send their list an email directly to extend the invitation
... don't need to make it a requirement but we shoudl make everyone feel welcome to contribute

harry: agree 100%

<eprodrom> We have an F2F coming up, may be useful to have Annotators there

<harry> ACTION: harry to invite Annotations WG [recorded in [[1]|http://www.w3.org/2015/02/24-social-minutes.html#action01]]]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-40 - Invite annotations wg [on Harry Halpin - due 2015-03-03].

tantek: anybody have anything to report on the tracker?

Arnaud: there were several new issues that were raised

<tantek> new issues: http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/raised

Issue 12: http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/12

<tantek> http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/12

tantek: we raised this in last week's telcon

<bblfish> Issue 12?

tantek: can we assume that if it was raised during a telcon that we can accept it?

<bblfish> Issue 12

<Arnaud> issue-12

<trackbot> issue-12 -- Action Types Structure and Processing Model -- raised

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/12

Arnaud: yeah you can propose we can open it if people agree

tantek: any objections to opening this issue?

Arnaud: what that means is we accept this is an issue we need to address

tantek: in general unless there are some extenuating circumstances, if a member of the WG opens an issue our default should be to accept and open it

<eprodrom> +1 to open

<eprodrom> AnnB: I just learned that, too!

<KevinMarks> is this raise/catch?

<tantek> http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/13

tantek: issue 13

<Arnaud> resolved: open issue-12 without objection

Which activity types are built into AS2, and how are they defined/structured?

scribe: this sounds like a good wiki doc kind of thing

<eprodrom> Is this http://jasnell.github.io/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/activitystreams2-vocabulary.html ?

scribe: where we document different implementations and publishing support
... i think we should accept and open it

<bblfish> issue-13

<trackbot> issue-13 -- Which activity types are built into AS2, and how are they defined/structured? -- raised

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/13

eprodrom: we have a vocab document for AS2 that does most of the mapping that eric is asking for
... not sure if he had seen that document when he raised the issue or if i misunderstood his issue

AnnB: regardless that could just be an easy answer if that's the case

tantek: evan I think this this different from just a mapping
... it seems he is just asking for documentation on what AS2 publishers are actually publishing

<eprodrom> Not in IRC

tantek: is erik on the call?

<eprodrom> +1 to raise and let's see if dret can confirm

<tantek> quoting -- list of "well-known" activity types for AS2

<Loqi> Bill-looby made 1 edit to Socialwg/2015-03-17 https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82354&oldid=82353

<Loqi> Sandro made 2 edits to Socialwg/2015-03-17 https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82356&oldid=82354

<Loqi> Rhiaro made 2 edits to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82358&oldid=82352

<bblfish> issue-14

<trackbot> issue-14 -- as:Link adds a lot of complexity, if we keep it we need to clarify consequences of using it instead of as:Object -- raised

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/14

resolved: to open issue-13

<eprodrom> I like that we can see who's editing the wiki during the teleconference

tantek: this seems like a reasonable issue to raise, any objections to opening it?

<eprodrom> +1 to open

tantek: hearing no objections

rasolved: open issue-14

Social API User Stories

tantek: there's been al ot of discussion in various forms abotu that, people have been voting, which is even better
... just a reminder, voting ends tonight at midnight EST

<KevinMarks> lots to vote on

tantek: since voting is stil going on, do we want to review any of the current voting results? or should we postpone until the voting period prefer?

eprodrom: just to let people know, there are around 90 stories on the page, it takes a long time to get through this

<rhiaro> It took me 6 hours in a row today to do them all!

eprodrom: i split my time across 2-3 days, don't leave this til the last 5 minutes before midnight
... because they're all on one page we can have edit conflicts. the best way to do it is to lcick edit on each individual story
... to be less likely to have edit conflicts

tantek: excellent advice
... the other tip i saw go around was if you use Aaron Parecki (talk) 19:10, 24 February 2015 (UTC) it will sign your name and timestamp as well

bill-looby: i noticed that everyone is lsing energy by the time they get to the last user story
... might be a good idea for some people to start at the end

<rhiaro> +1

<AnnB> +1

bill-looby: the number of comments went down by the end, lots of just +1 +0 by the end

tantek: that's good advice. if people want to try voting from the bottom up as well as top down that'd be great
... perhaps another strategy is to start with the stories that don't have a lot of comments yet

<AnnB> it take a lot of time, but I really find the comments to be valuable

tantek: would like to suggest we postpone the discussion of process

<AnnB> +1

tantek: would like to leave this open in peopels' minds while voting and not try to shape the votes in terms of an accepted process

<bret> +1

who is speaking?

<wilkie> +1

<tantek> bill-looby is speaking

<tantek> or is that harry?

<AnnB> sounds more like Harry

<bblfish> +1 it makes sense because ew have a lot of -1s that can be controversial

<tantek> yeah I think that might be harry on a better connection than usual

harry: as soon as the voting has ended, as chairs, we should go through the results before the next meeting, and imagine next ways forward.
... i'd be doubtful if we can cover all in the API but that they might have some value in the future

<bret> It would have been nice to see more effort to de-dupe some of these stories before voting

<bblfish> ack

bblfish: there's lots of -1s, if it's taken that that's how we're misunderstanding each other. some people might say it's difficult... if we look at these votes as ways of judging how we can learn from each other then that's very positive

tantek: yeah i'd agree with that assessment. all the feedback we're getting is good because it's helping broaden our understanding

<AnnB> totally agree

tantek: i don't expect us to use all the user stories to develop the api, but that being said, since each user story seems to be useful to multiple people, i think that means they are worty of continued iteration
... if not in the first version then in additional versions or extnesions
... this is all valuable input we're getting
... just because stories have a bunch of -1 it doesn't mean we're going to throw it out and never lookat it again

AnnB: i totally agree, want to point out that in the case of the more "unusual" "obscure" stories,
... often innovation happens at the edges

<Loqi> Cwebber2 made 1 edit to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82359&oldid=82358

AnnB: that's where different and unusual ideas occur

<KevinMarks> if downvoting is seen as hostile we cut our range in half for +1 to -1 downt o +1 to 0

<rhiaro> I think a lot of the more 'unusual' ones can be generalised, too, and are accommodated anyway

AnnB: i'm looking forward to the discussion on the more unusual suggestions

tantek: since we have agreement on postponing the process of turning the stories into requiremetnts we've reached the end of the ageda
... everyone is eager to get back to voting i'm guessing

<cwebber2> \o/

<harry> keep voting everyone!!

tantek: if there are no objections, would move to close the call and give back the remainder of the hour to continue voting!

Arnaud: one possiblity would be to pick up some user stories that are popular but are some objections, and maybe we can clarify some of them now

tantek: okay that's reasonable

AnnB: do you have ones you want to highlight?

Arnaud: there were some with major numbers of +1 and then a -1 from tantek
... the very first one, user profile management

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#User_profile_management

<ben_thatmustbeme> +1 i would like to be able to iterate on some of these stories or propose alternate versions

tantek: in having lookde at this, I agreed with most of the user story, but some of the fields used for profile management seemed to be very specific and not necessarily needed or present in the APIs we reviewed
... i agree with the general theme but had some specifics i was objecting to
... perhaps evan can clarify?

<bill-looby> have to drop, bfn

<rhiaro> My reading of that was that the specific profile data is arbitrary, and those given are just examples

<AnnB> me too, rhiaro

eprodrom: hometown - it gets down to what you think the location field on twitter is for
... it's kind of up in the air. facebook has a way to say this is where i'm from or this is where i live
... job title and company name we have in linked in
... those are pretty common
... job title is pretty common in enterprise networks
... phone number is in facebook and linkedin, most enterprise networks
... i've also seen some systems where you can update private data
... as far as the specifics, i think that would be up to how the profile works and up to the individual APIs we get proposals for
... whether they use a fixed vocab for the profile or changed by the implementation
... but the idea that we are able to be able to update multiple parts of the profile is important

<rhiaro> +1 updating multiple elements of profile, but not requiring specific fields

tantek: that makes more sense to me especially the last thing you said, updating parts or mnultiple aspects of the profile
... that I agree with in a +1 way
... but that feels like some of the aspects may be getting into profile vocab design which i would like to avoid
... would rather reuse all notion of profile vocab from an existing standard like vcard 4
... and looked at existing networks while that was developed
... i would +1 the profile management if it mentioned that the fields are used as examples and it's up to the service what field it supports

eprodrom: i think we can get into some interesting fine points
... for example if you have a client that tries to update fields that aren't on the server
... if the client doesn't understand the profile response from the server how should it handle it
... those are good discussions to have around the user stories

<tantek> ack?

bblfish: this shows a little of a confusion between the API and the data format

<bblfish> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/contact#

bblfish: because if you take the data format carefully like JSON LD then it's extensible

<KevinMarks> look at existing profiles for intersection, rather than union

<bblfish> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card

bblfish: you could use the contact ontology like timbl does for his profile, but it doesn't have to be part of this WG to describe all the ontologies

<KevinMarks> opensocial went for union, which meant we ended up with too many fields

bblfish: so i read it that there is no requirement for the WG to specify the ontology, just that the API be able to edit the information as needed
... i've seen this type of example where people get caught up on the API vs the schema

AnnB: i think this was largely resolved so far but hasd one concern
... "well twitter and instagram don't have it so it's unnecessary" seems like a narrow perspective
... doesn't necessarily mean that the whole world doesn't need it, especially in enterprise it varies significantly

tantek: if something is not ever-present then it's probably not core. it's okay to consider more complex cases, i'm focused on getting out a v1 of the api
... the extensibility henry described is the kindof thinking i'm hoping goes into the api byt didn't want to assume that

<rhiaro> +1 for not defining everything, and helping servers have decent fallbacks instead when they don't understand things

tantek: i asked for clarification from evan about whether this is specifying specific fields or leaving things a bit more open
... and then define rules for publishers and consumers handling support for different fields
... evan is that a reasonable summary?

eprodrom: i think it is up for discussion

<bblfish> +1 for tantek's description of the two approaches - I am for having an API that can work with any data ( though the working group could decide on a minimal yet extensible ontology that all clients should understand )

eprodrom: my feeling is that we want to use some vocabulary in there, i'd probably wnat to use a well-known vocab here to make things easier for implementers

AnnB: this seems like a valuable discussion, it's foundational to how this goes forward

tantek: to be clear my +0 is not an opposition

harry: we do have a requirement that we will use the IG input as a building point
... regardless of how big the union/intersection of terms in the API becomes, i would be shocked if we did not have some extensibility mechanism

<rhiaro> +1 extensibility

AnnB: that's a good point about the IG but i will need to understand that better

harry: as soon as we get a v1 of teh API that peopel agree on, people will notice "it doesn't quite fit my use case" do we need to create another vocab or format and can send it to teh IG to continue working on

tantek: i strongly agree with intersection instead of union

<cwebber2> phone died, sorry

<bblfish> as long as things are extensible.

AnnB: since i'm not a developer, i'm having a hard time assessing what goes into the API instead of UI or some other mechanism
... you who are developers can guide me that way
... it's too bad Adam got pulled out this week, since he's my local developer 'explainer'

?? that discussion of what goes into an API vs UI could go on for hours

scribe: i certainly encourage people to discuss that in IRC but not sure it's worth taking time in the telcon

<AnnB> agree .. just pointing out this is a aspect of confusion for me

<bblfish> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Developing_a_Smart_client

<AnnB> s/a aspect / an aspect /

bblfish: what it's trying to say is most of what's published is data, and the client uses the data to create the user interface
... and then the API is how you change the data, how you create new data, that's my way of seeing the three layers

<AnnB> thanks Henry

bblfish: API, data and user interface

tantek: okay
... anyone else want to bring up any questions?

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#User_posts_a_note_with_embedded_media

tantek: use posts a note with embedded media
... there is a challenge ... it's not clear whether video embedding is done simply via a URL or where it's something where you upload a video
... based on the two interpretations i have completely opposite votes
... simply pasting a URL, having auto-embedding is a pretty common feature, i've even implemented it on my site

<rhiaro> In my experience video uploading comes with a ton of extra baggage, or at least tends to require additional metadata

tantek: but a -1 for making video uploads a core part of the api

<cwebber2> really?

tantek: so are jessica or christopher here to clarify the intent?

<bret> rhiaro: ever had to maintain a dedicated ffmpeg server ;)

<harry> ?

<cwebber2> hold on

<cwebber2> I dropped off the call but I have to reconnect

<cwebber2> +q

<Loqi> Kmarks2 made 1 edit to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82362&oldid=82359

eprodrom: first, this becomes a more mainstream user story if it's an image used in a text, so the flow of posting an image and putting it int he text and sharing that
... the other thing is sounds like your -1 for video, but a lot of the folks from mediagoblin are here and doing sharing media
... audio and video and images

<Tsyesika> I'm here but i don't have a mic so i'll let chris take this

cwebber2: i think that media upload, wit's not true that the service should be required to handle large media upload, but the api should be designed so that we know how this would work
... it would be surprising to me if we don't have a way to define here is how we handle large uploads

<rhiaro> Would be good if you could upload your video to one server and embed it in a post on a different server simultaneously... Seems like something the API could help with

cwebber2: it's okay if services say it's not possible to handle certain formats

tantek: the reason i was not sure about this was that this story specifically mentioned someone else's video
... so samantha is writing a post and embeds helen's video, my optimistic interpretation was that samantha puts in a URL to the video

<wilkie> is there an ability to replicate media for reposting?

tantek: but then I realized perhaps this was meant ot cover video uploading
... i agree it would be good to have a user story on video uploading, but this seems more like sharing a link to something online

cwebber2: that user story we submitted was about sharing a link to something already online
... i thought that other user stories had already covered video uploading
... it looked like there was a question about whether video uploading should be able to happen at all
... i do think that submitting video, even though that's not hte user sotry in question, is important. sorry if there was confusion, my phone screwed up

tantek: so the "user posts a note with embedded media" is about sharing existing video already online

cwebber2: exactly

<rhiaro> Note: Vine is a social network based entirely on sharing video, so definitely required for social..

tantek: okay that clarifies that one

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#User_posts_a_note_with_embedded_media

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#User_posts_a_file

<Arnaud> someone needs to clarify the story so this is no longer ambiguous

ben_thatmustbeme: should we use the "more stories" page to try to clarify these?
... should we be constantly making new ones to say here is my interpretation of these stories

tantek: i think that's a great idea, it will help us converge on user stories
... the "more users" stories page is...

<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/More_user_stories

tantek: there's nothing on there now, but that's a great suggestion
... one way of clarifying a story or clarifying your vote
... you can say "+1 on this assuming..." and link to your interpretation

<eprodrom> Approaching the hour, btw, tantek

<harry> I warned people re the stories :)

AnnB: i think that's a great suggestion but i'm worried that there are so many of these stories that its going to be a nightmare to go back and forth between all the versions

<ben_thatmustbeme> that was my concern at all

AnnB: is there a way we can discuss this more diretly inline?

tantek: people have been doing that already
... ben's proposal was an additional option to people

AnnB: i'm totally supporting the concept of further discussion, just worried that if we birfurcate this then how we're going to track it

tantek: hopefully with links

AnnB: links are great but they can also be confusing

tantek: we're approaching the top of the hour
... there's no end to discussing the details of these stories
... for the "posts a file" did you mean photo only or any kind of media file or any kind of file?

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#User_posts_a_file

eprodrom: from the original requirements, we had images,text,video,audio,enterprise docs and other types
... so that user story was supposed to summarize those groups
... we could break it down to multiple groups

<Loqi> Rhiaro made 1 edit to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82363&oldid=82362

<Loqi> Eprodrom made 1 edit to Socialwg/Social API/User stories https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?diff=82364&oldid=82363

eprodrom: I was trying to take from the original user requirements around 10 high-level areas, one for each

<AnnB> s/diretly /directly /

eprodrom: so that "upload a file" became "upload an image"
... as far as cropping, the idea was the user was cropping is they'd use their own software like photoshop, not part of the API

tantek: that's a good example of a reasonable clarification to add as bullet points as part of the description of the story

<AnnB> +1 ... I like the small clarifications people have added .. it's helpful when they are indented

tantek: if you want to put a brief bullet list clarifying "crop is not intended to be part of the API" that's totally reasonable
... i'd rather optimistically trust that people add clarifications to narrow the scope and won't abuse that
... i would encourage folks, if you're seeing questions or objections on your story, you can clarify

eprodrom: that sounds fine
... at this point i'd rather not change the formatting on the stories, we're hours away from finishing. but if people want to add additional bullet points that's great

tantek: any objections?

<rhiaro> +1

resolved: if you're the author of the user story you may add clarifying comments in the voting area

<eprodrom> +1

<harry> +1

tantek: that brings us well past the top of the hour but hopefully that helps us get more consensus on user stories
... thanks again, we'll reconvene next week and figure out our next steps

<rhiaro> ciao!

<wilkie> cool, thanks

<eprodrom> Thanks tantek !

<bblfish> thanks

<bret> cheers

<wilkie> aaronpk++

<Loqi> aaronpk has 714 karma

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Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: harry to invite Annotations WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/02/24-social-minutes.html#action01]
 
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