From 86144cf2ae0b224430a6cdf76cc47e2bd6a49e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jory Burson Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 17:09:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Create 2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md Adds notes for our brainstorming session --- meeting-notes/2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meeting-notes/2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md diff --git a/meeting-notes/2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md b/meeting-notes/2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1098e54 --- /dev/null +++ b/meeting-notes/2020.12.01_meeting-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +## Meeting Notes - 2020.12.02 Standards Working Group Strategic brainstorming session + +**Present:** Mike Samuel, Richard Gibson, Brian Kardell, Jordan Harband, Jory Burson, Eemeli Aro, Michael Champion, Sendil Kumar, Robin Ginn + +This meeting was not recorded and lightly noted to make space for free discussion. + +### Intro/Welcome +- Reviewed questions/prompts and limited survey data: https://hackmd.io/bz9SKl87SYCIECAXi4zOGA + +### Discussion: + +- Who are we? How do we define our scope? Who is interested? + - We need to fit into the projects' own rhythm, meet them where they are. We could do some quarterly information sharing? + - Who are our core constituencies? + - Project Maintainers / Leaders + - users of our open source projects + - end users +- Where are we on the scale of "consumption of" and "activism in" standards? e.g. do we ever imagine developing standards inside OpenJS Foundation? + - An example from messageformat, that the latter could be needed/useful + - Useful to identify and shore up the pieces that appear to "fall through the cracks" between existing working groups + - **Takeaway:** we tend toward activism in participation and would be interested in providing a standardization path for our projects + +### Strategic Direction(s) Ideas +1. OpenJS Foundation is a place to develop standards proposals / workstreams which are being missed by the bigger SDOs - "Fill the Cracks" +1. OpenJS Foundation is a place where the JS Community convenes to build & develop opinions for different proposals which are active in an SDO +1. OpenJS Foundation is a place for discovery of "standard stacks" e.g. we do analysis of our projects to present common pathways / approaches + - "Does anyone else; or is it just me" type process or forum (we could expand on this from an educational perspective and post blogs "Are you experiencing X, you might be entitled to compensation etc") +1. OpenJS Foundation is a place where projects with standards-related goals (AMP, Node) receive support for their work, and where folks in those project groups cross-collaborate +1. OpenJS Foundation is a place where people can learn and begin to onboard into standards development + - Including programs to support and mentor people to become (chairs, editors, note-takers, etc) + - Hub for materials around presenting on certain standards proposals / issues - create(ing) ambassadors + - Hub for getting involved with other educational works (e.g. Standards in 2 minutes) +1. OpenJS Foundation helps make standards bodies nicer places to do work (no jerks!) + - "what can the openjs foundation do to make standards development "NICER" in 2021" + +### Ideas for Action +- Meet with Project Maintainers to discuss the Strategic Direction Ideas above and gather input on which direction(s) are most appealing +- interview our projects to see which projects are experiencing shared problems/issues/challenges (research) - get a sense to develop a bigger picture similar to the TAG. RQ - is there something we can proactively assess/review +- Recruit a rep from each project to participate in standards wg +- Assess: + - What is an example of something we can do? What is an example of something we can't do? + - What do we have the best/most resources to do? + - What should we do? +- create an FAQ for questions / answers based on profile + - "I am a community member with a proposal for {tc39}" + - "I want to discover standards work" + - "I think {module blocks} are a good idea, how do I build consensus for this across the OpenJS Foundation projects?" + - "I want to standardize {X}" + - "I want to follow developments in {some standards body} in order to determine if I would like to get involved" + - "I want to stay abreast of things at {late stage} standards"