DID Working Group
Information on Meetings
Teleconferences
The weekly teleconferences on Tuesdays at various times to allow for all geographical areas to participate on calls at least 1-2 times. See the (member only) notification for the details. See the separate page for further information on the Zoom bridge.
The Group also uses IRC for during the calls for minute taking, queue control, and general chit-chat. See the separate page at W3C for further details. This Working Group uses the #did
channel, and makes use of two bots on IRC:
zakim
for queue control (see the separate manual pages for further details.)rrsagent
for scribing and minute generation (see the separate manual pages on how to control the access rights and storage of the IRC logs, and the separatescribejs
features for the scribe instructions).
F2F meetings
- 2019 Fall - September 16-17, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2020 Winter - January 29-31, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2020 Summer - June 30 - July 1, Virtual
- 2020 TPAC - November 2-5, 2020
Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes (both for F2F and telcos) are listed separately.
Minute taking
Minutes are taken using IRC, and is based by a collective effort: one of the participants should be the scribe for (part of) a session. The rrsagent
bot is used to archive the IRC log at the end of the call, and a separate tool (called scribejs
) is used to generate the cleaned-up minutes that are published on the Working Group’s Web site.
Minute taking and cleanup is greatly helped by:
- the scribe should used a number conventions, documented
scribejs
features separately. - to help minute taking and cleaning them later, please use a consistent IRC handle; scribes should use that handle to identify the person speaking.
scribejs
automatically replaces the handle with the person’s full name, making the minutes more readable to outsiders.- note that in most IRC clients the
TAB
key can be used to expand to an existing irc handle
- note that in most IRC clients the
- Each participant should type
present+ <name>
(or simplypresent+
for himself/herself) in the irc channel immediately upon joining the call. (This will help the minute taker and improve the generated minutes.)
Updating the minutes
The minutes themselves are stored, in Markdown (more exactly in “Kramdown”) on the WG’s core github repository in the _minutes
folder.
As described in the separate page on our working mode, meeting minutes are considered as “Draft” until officially approved after five business days, usually at the subsequent meeting. During that period, if a participant requests a change in the minutes, he/she can issue, for example, a Pull Request with the proposed changes.