Standing Technical Meetups

Hi all,

Please find a summary of discussion points sand actions arising from the Standing Technical Meet-up that took place on the 10th of January.

Greg’s role at Inform USA.

  • Greg updated us on his new position at Inform USA. More info - here

Documentation Review (Product vs Project Documentation).

  • Greg updated on his work to separate Project documentation from Product documentation.
  • We discussed how the project documentation moved over from the Products documentation is currently could be presented on the website and ways to potentially improve it inc. a suggestion to turn the About page into a landing page for all project documentation.

Actions:

  • @bloom to consider the suggestion
  • @bloom to make capitalization of the about menu options consistent.

Community Survey.

  • Devin talked through the Open Referral Community Survey he is currently working on which he suggested could be something we do on a regular basis to ensure we’re keeping up with the needs of the community.
  • The Tooling section needs attention which led to a discussion and review of Tools Sheet which the survey should be informed by.

Actions:

  • ODS (@Dan-ODS) to update the Tooling Spreadsheet
  • @Dan-ODS to plan time at the meetup to further review the sheet

Governance Model

  • Greg and Devin updated on some work they’ve been doing to map alternative governance models which could involve a more formalised technical committee responsible for directing the maintenance and development of the HSDS standard.
  • There was a discussion about the remit and potential membership of the committee.

Actions:

  • @bloom and @devin to finalise the proposal and share in the forum.

Github Repo Issues Review.

Action:

Placement of links to existing profiles in the docs.

  • Dan shared changes made to using profuels section of the docs based on feedback from Mike and Skyler which we’re well received.

Action: ODS to merge the branch used to draft the change.

Scheduling issue.

  • Updated on the meeting scheduled between Matt and Syler. Request to open up to others

Action:

  • @Dan-ODS to post to the forum re the opportunity to join the call.