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# CDEvents Working Group Meeting Notes

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This document contains the notes from the [CDEvents Working Group](https://hackmd.io/lBlDCrL7TvmtNOjxdopJ5g).

## Meeting Details

### Schedule

- APAC friendly Monday meetings are held at [11am UTC](https://time.is/10am_in_UTC) during summer time and at [12pm UTC](https://time.is/11am_in_UTC) during winter time).
- NA friendly Monday meetings are held at [3pm UTC](https://time.is/3pm_in_UTC) during summer time and at [4pm UTC](https://time.is/4pm_in_UTC) during winter time)

### Previous Years

- [2022 Meeting Notes](https://github.com/cdevents/community/blob/main/working-group-notes-2022.md)
- [2023 Meeting Notes](https://github.com/cdevents/community/blob/main/working-group-notes-2023.md)
- [2024 Meeting Notes](https://github.com/cdevents/community/blob/main/working-group-notes-2024.md)
- [2025 Meeting Notes](https://github.com/cdevents/community/blob/main/working-group-notes-2025.md)

### Template

Participants:
- Name / affiliation / TZ

Links:
- [v0.6 Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/cdevents/projects/1/views/15)
- [Outstanding PRs](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/)

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- Action Items
- \<addme\>

### March, 24th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/302 source + id merge
- To vote next week
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/292 Link + domainId
- Lessen scope to domain ID
- Introduce another proposal/PR that addresses subject to subject linking.
- Side meeting w/ David to address this
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/276 automation of python
- Rewrite in JS (David)
- Still pending
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/297 Feature Flag
- Ping Matt on this (Ben)

### March, 17th 2026 (Americas)
Participants:
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
- Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
- David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/292
- Discussion ongoing, continue offline
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/276
- Needs to be reworked in js
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/298
- Needs Signed-off-by in commits for DCO
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- (Action) Dasisi to archive old files and notes to git to free up space on hackmd
- JSON Schema generation
- Demo: https://github.com/davidB/sandbox_cdevents_jsonschema_generation
- CDViz include cdevents version translators tools
- David to draft a google form to find out about CDEvents user
- Andrea to check with Kate if we can use a CDF account
- Feedback needed on https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/252#issuecomment-4032746973 so David can author the PR

### March, 10th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/298 (Approval)
- David has approval depends on conformance example
- Add that after meeting
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/276
- To close and rewrite in Javascript
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/252 (Revisit next week)

### March, 3rd 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
- David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/298 (Approval)
- Enums format needs documentation - Ben
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/252 slated for v0.6
- Vote for merging next week
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/292 - Ben
- Vote for merging next week
- https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/300 - Merged (Thanks Andrea)
- DataOps CDEvents
- Reach out to individual projects related to data ops
- Create a blog regarding CDEvents / What does data ops mean?
- Creating a list of projects relevant to data ops
- https://cdeliveryfdn.slack.com/archives/C07N3QS2KGS
- Generate JSON Schema from a meta data model
- tried with Cuelang (but not happy with it, see the README of repo)
- current proposal:
- yaml (pseudo json-schema fragment)
- typescript (to assemble, compose and generate json-schemas)
- https://github.com/davidB/sandbox_cdevents_jsonschema_generation

### February, 17th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
- David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara
- Candace Stump, Sol Duara

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- Semantics - https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/291/ (Vote for approval next week)
- Links - https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/292
- Examples needed for PR
- Cherry-pick s/version/schemaversion
- Was able to release rust SDK
- ~~Add CI test for json schema validator~~
- Did not raise an error
- Fix https://github.com/cdevents/spec/commit/5ac28b18ab8217313be8f81ea9c2c33ce85016d5
- SDK consistencies
- https://github.com/cdevents/sdk-rust?tab=readme-ov-file#features
- Devoxx French CDViz and CDEvents Talk (Paris - April 22-24)
- Accepted - David
- Create GH issue for potentially replacing mdtoc with JS
- When introducing new CI tooling/validation, please use JS.
- Data Ops (Victor Lu):
- DOK (Database on Kubernetes)
- Execution flow - core to orchestration
- Diagram needed
- Simple
- Complex
- Approval event PR (next week-ish?) - Ben

### February, 3rd 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
- Victor Lu, Independent, EST

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- Action Items:
- Website (almost ready for review) - Ben
- February 13th goal
- Base event criteria
- Must have subject, context, customdata as required fields.
- SDKs will allow for hooks into the event lifecycle
- Serialization, deserialization, sending via protocol, receiving via protocol (HTTP)
- SDK refactor goal is end of the month 28th of Feb
- Data op events
- Data ops next Wednesday 11 EST
- CDF Calendar (DataOps Initiative SIG)

### January, 27th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- Action Items:
- namespace for SDKs? https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/250
- SDKs should enforce namespaces at the CustomData root level
- Proposal for namespace - Dadisi
- Base Event - https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/250 & https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/253
- SDK proposal pattern - Ben
- Proposal first then PR for Java SDK - Ben
- Road map CDEvents for website - Ben
- namespacing
- base events
- sdks
- approval event - https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/243

### January, 13th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:
- Ben Powell, Apple, CST
- Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific

Links:
- [v0.6 Roadmap] needs a v0.6 roadmap
- [Outstanding PRs](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/pull/)

Agenda:
- New attendees
- Review roadmap
- Look at outstanding PRs
- Look at [open issues](https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues) to be triaged
- Action Items
- Mid December v0.5 was released
- Some bugs regarding release reported by David
- Website primer needs updating: https://github.com/cdevents/spec/issues/287
- Needs to be synced with what is currently out
- Needs concepts like namespacing at some point
- How will namespacing work? - Low priority
- Namespacing will need to a first class citizen in SDKs
- SDKs need to be more user friendly
- Create an issue outlining the overall design for SDKs/best practices/patterns
- Verifiability
- Next week CloudEvents meeting, should have updated verifiability PR