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# SolidOS Team Meeting Template

* Date: 02.01.2023 17:30 (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/)
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## Present attendees

* Noel, Zhilin, Sharon, Timea, Alain, Tim, Jon, Claudine

### Scribes

* Jon, Noel?

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## Topics

### Round Table

#### Zhilin

- I'm a PhD candidate at Oxford, researching Solid.

#### Claudine

- I'm a PhD student studying security and human-centered computing at Oxford.
- Interested in decentralized technologies, doing research on related topics

#### Noel

- Solid App developer.
- Preparing [FOSDEM presentation](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/sovcloud_from_zero_to_hero_with_solid/).

#### Alain

- Worked on an issue, took all his time, resolved it.

#### Timea
- Engineer at Inrupt


#### Tim
- intro to Solid, a "third layer of the web", a powerful env where anybody can do anything
- SolidOS is trying to demonstrate the power of Solid
- this group is meant to work on that, 
- recently, working on "My Stuff", in Profile, can save stuff for personal use, or for a community, will help to use a pod as a collabartive space 
- was working on an issue this past week with Typescript errors preventing build on Github from completing, Angelo helped resolve this
- Also recently, added Edit Your Profile functionality to drag communities into(?) profile

#### Sharon
- intro: live in San Diego and Melbourne, got into Solid in 2019, was getting Masters in distributed computing, did research on location and Solid, worked with Inrupt, glad to be a part of community
- last week met with Chase, discussed using Solid Panes, found and worked on some errors; will meet with Chase again sometime this week to work on that more
- Might be going to conference to meet SolidOS folks in Germany

#### Jon

- Intro: I run a meetup here in Minneapolis, interested in decentralized web and fedivaere, and that led me to Solid
- Scheduled a next meetup, online,k to focus on MVP for apps, and Chase will do a presentation
- Working on a PR for Period tracker app

#### Chase
- On a small break, but met with Sharon, working on Solid panes, there are errors (XSS), should be able to work on that

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### Technical topics

#### Sharon: What about chat going forward
Noel: Matrix(?)
Sharon: asking Tim about Solid Chat
Tim: Solid chat does have similar capability to Gitter, it has search, it's functional, have a lot of issues where it needs improvement, doesn't have notifications to mobile (but it will notify web page); otherwise functionality similar to Gitter, need to work on MD a bit
Noel: there are issues with impersonation, very important
Tim: that might need a new server
Noel: They discussed this in security meetup
Tim: attended that meeting, they would like for our group to demo what we can do and can't do with Solid chat, and what would it take to move the community to Solid chat; 
Sharon: I could maybe put presentation together, should I?
Tim: yes, TY
Sharon: I could present at the CG (??) meeting, when is that; I can do that presentation in 2 weeks; will follow up with us with some questions
Noel: There are issues open, Alain has been doing tests
Tim: there was chat about it, I'll [link](https://gitter.im/solid/chat-app) in the minutes


#### Zhilin / Claudine questions

Claudine: Just here to soak up knowledge and get a sense of what's going on in community, and see how I could contribute, and benefit from expertise inn n community

Zhilin: same for me

#### Alain topic: JSON-LD latest version, is there a way to convert a package to not be ESM (?)
Noel: whole system is moving to ESM; I have the opposite probblem, I want everything to be ESM
Tim: you used to be able to mix them, didn't you? recently you couldn't do "require" anymore, Node is getting stricted about it
Noel: you can use a library, JSON-LD-Streaming-parser to get around this, not sure what parts of code are using it
Alain: not sure
Tim: it will ahve something it wants to write to, 
Noel: It parses quads...will share link in gitter
Alain: input is not a probem, the output...I will look at 
Noel: Parser library: [jsonld-streaming-parser](https://github.com/rubensworks/jsonld-streaming-parser.js)


#### Timea topic: planning board in Miro
Timea: Summing up the votes: improving the UI/UX won by far
But a good question, what does that particularly mean.
Afterwards the topic of dynamically loading panes
Next was adding CSS to build tests (?), this is done to some extent by Alain
I will sum up results and make a priority list and post it on Gitter channel, and would like for us to break these topics down, and discuss what needs to be done
Maybe we can focus and achieve at least one of these topics this year--doesn't have to be ideal
Tim: should we add something about improving the chat?
Timea: the planning is there for a grander vision, but we are volunteers here, so we have limited time, but maybe we can form a working group in the next year to focus on Chat, but we need to see some further commitment by at least 2 people--same as all topics, we need people to show commitment to working on 
Tim: Same problem with other issues, you can have working group, but that doesn't mean people will show up
Timea: we will see how this progresses, see what Sharon does with presentation, try to see what are the problems and what are the priorities
Tim: Yeah.
Timea: These three topics (above) are the main ones, would anyone like to be a topic owner of any of these? Doesn't need necessarily any coding, just someone to keep up interest in the topic--if you need more information, direction, etc., I can help. So, we just need someone for each topic who has desire and motivation, and can aliugn with the vision.


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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)