# Standing Technical Meetups **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical\ **Created:** [November 6, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454 "2023-11-06T10:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 92
**Author:** ![sasha](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/sasha/32/149_2.png) [@sasha](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/sasha)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454/92 "2026-02-03T17:34:44Z")
Hi all – thanks for your patience as we sorted out the admin side of my secretarial duties. 🙂 I’m linking here [the notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYmsSa_U8uQKZW0zhEq8H6CNttNeWPqP7BAV0HDJa2o/edit?tab=t.blv4nr28fynh#heading=h.esxqf7q140qv) and [the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7pet9SMEd8) of the meetup in January. The discussion focused primarily on: - **schema-level $ids** – questions remain on how important these $id fields are in the short-term, and the best method to address issues highlighted around these fields in compiled schemas and in Profiles tooling. - **the schema discrepancy RE: the relationship between organizations and services** – It was determined that properly addressing this would entail a major change, but because it’s not currently considered urgent, changes will instead be implemented within current documentation and tooling ahead of an upgrade to 4.0. - **documentation priorities** – in which we dedicated some time to generating a list of potential tutorials we could produce this year, including how to: generate a profile, design data partnerships, and reference HSDS in database design. [Here you’ll find a draft of the proposed agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYmsSa_U8uQKZW0zhEq8H6CNttNeWPqP7BAV0HDJa2o/edit?tab=t.blv4nr28fynh#heading=h.z9hec0ix7ozd) for the next meeting on February 12th. We’re hoping to tackle some of the technical issues that have been rolled over from previous agendas, primarily [normalized email objects](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/normalized-email-object/741/3) and the [serialization and ranking of contact methods](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/how-do-we-rank-contact-methods-across-different-method-types/742/2) (looking at you, @skyleryoung!). Please feel free to jump in with any questions or suggestions for the agenda – otherwise, have a great week, and I’ll see you on the next one! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/standing-technical-meetups/454)._