# Standing Technical Meetups

**URL:** <https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Created:** [November 6, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454 "2023-11-06T10:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan-ODS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/dan-ods/32/89_2.png) [@Dan-ODS](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Dan-ODS)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454/67 "2025-05-12T09:26:50Z")

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Hi all, see the proposed agenda for our meeting on Wednesday. Input and suggestion welcome as always:

## Agenda

### Validator

- UK validator update
  - Hear from developer (David)
  - Testing results

- User stories update ([forum post](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/validator-and-dashboard-for-hsds-hsda-3-0-and-beyond/415/14); [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tszuthH-_xq1vmjOQbUsroGf8R-wScFu6bYhEs9h4eI/edit?gid=482058597#gid=482058597))

### Federation

- Updates from [breakout session](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYmsSa_U8uQKZW0zhEq8H6CNttNeWPqP7BAV0HDJa2o/edit?tab=t.blv4nr28fynh#heading=h.czrrkpv9c6ih)
  - Confidentiality

- Metadata API
  - Relevant updates from[the breakout](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYmsSa_U8uQKZW0zhEq8H6CNttNeWPqP7BAV0HDJa2o/edit?tab=t.blv4nr28fynh#heading=h.czrrkpv9c6ih)
  - Data guides
    - [Initial proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCBn_oDgH5Wh9FZmCuhPNDhLlPa1LqIhAH6yhRbfyxQ/edit?tab=t.mfc89kmfdrhe#heading=h.ye0dggmm63xe)
    - [Request for comments on the forum](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/request-for-comments-data-guides-for-hsds/643)
    - What would be useful to include in a template?

### How-to documentation and tutorials

- for database deployment
  - Further discussion/decisions ([notes from the last meeting for reference)](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454/66#p-1607-how-to-documentation-for-database-deployment-7)

- What other documentation might be helpful?

### FYI notices

- Merging - [Adding information about the MARC 21 standard #552](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/adding-information-about-the-marc-21-standard-to-the-docs/637/1)
- Github issue - [Consider using OpenAPI tags to define required endpoints inside the OpenAPI file #556](https://github.com/openreferral/specification/issues/556)

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