SolidOS Team Meeting

# SolidOS Team Meeting * Date: 07.09.2022 18:00 (UTC+1) * Call: [https://meet.jit.si/solid-operating-system](https://meet.jit.si/solid-operating-system) * [Previous meeting link]() * [Next meeting link]() * Chat: [https://gitter.im/solidos/solidos](https://gitter.im/solidos/solidos) * Repository: [https://github.com/solidos/solidos](https://github.com/solidos/solidos) * Meetings home: [https://solidos.solidcommunity.net/public/SolidOS%20team%20meetings/](https://solidos.solidcommunity.net/public/SolidOS%20team%20meetings/) ---- ## Present attendees * Noel, Ieben Smessaert, Alain, Jon, Timea, Zen, Aad, Rui ### Scribes * Jon, --- ## Topics ### Round Table #### Ieben - Works with Patrick(?), first time here, made a form generator app, would like to demo #### Alain - Published on the test-server a new version of NSS with Mashlib, new changes to mashlib, including discovery and the Solid Community display, and reorganization that Timea made. On NSS side, new important changes, now can login and add webid from CSS or ESS, and made PATCH work on jsonld. #### Jon - Continued working on the [Period Tracker app](https://github.com/timea-solid/SolidPeriodTracker). - Noel: Be careful if using calendar data type, that it doesn't get automatically shared - Read the "Linked Data" book, https://www.manning.com/books/linked-data, and recommends it to understand RDF better. - Started using solid-client library and learning how to use it #### Aad - Worked with Solid chat(?), gave a Sparql/Linked Data lecture, more than 50 ppl attended (was a surprise!), RDFlib library, #### Zen - Just got started working with SolidOS, here to learn more - Would like to create a profile that would spark interest for someone who has no experience or knowledge of Solid #### Timea - Has been working with Chase on his PR - Prepared presentation about what we've done over the past year - Would like to schedule chat, maybe Saturday, regarding Period Tracker #### Noel - Working on specification regarding how apps can understand Profile document: https://github.com/solid/webid-profile/issues/40 - Working on maintenance of app, found possible issue with NSS related to old accounts of solidcommunity.net: https://gitter.im/solid/node-solid-server?at=63144d3a72ad51741fc3b817 #### Rui - Working on Solid Calendar, with React, finished UI part, making improvements - Trying to figure out correct method of authorization - Timea: Authorization, as opposed to authentication, depends on server implementation ### Technical topics #### Form Generator Demo, from leben - Public at formgenerator.smessie.com, on Github at https://github.com/smessie/FormGenerator - A form for making forms as a valid RDF file, stored in your pod - Takes RDF file as input, (or create from scratch?), outputs a resource that can be displayed in Solid - Developed with ember, and ember-solid library, and rdflib #### Zen - Looking for a converter that takes RDF and outputs to a Javascript object - Jon and Aad and Timea and Rui: Maybe look into JSON-LD, ld-flex, rdflib, owlready2 - Some links: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonld-dataset-proxy, https://www.rubensworks.net/blog/2019/10/06/using-rdf-in-javascript/, https://docs.inrupt.com/developer-tools/javascript/react-sdk/ ---- This template is based on the [W3C meeting template](https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/meetings/template.md) [Code of conduct](https://github.com/solid/process/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md)