# OMI Meeting Notes 6/9/2021

9:05AM start - Robert Long

Meeting Recording: []()

## Agenda:
- W3C Community Group Charter
- Virtual Space Design (hang out space)
- Open Collective for OMI funding
- Revisit Virtual World URIs x Metadata
- Identity (if time)

## Charter
The OMI Chairs worked on a first draft of the OMI charter on Tuesday. We followed a W3C template, and made a few changes to fit our needs.
We ask that the group propose changes using a standard pull request process [here](https://github.com/omigroup/OMI/pull/45) :point_left:

We kept the same Core values from the original figma document where we were working on this workshop together. Figjam Day III

### A question was asked around the scope of work with "Nested experiences within worlds" from the proposed charter
A: We could benefit from mapping out how the ecosystem is laid out. External discovery of experiences available within worlds. IP protections for content creators within environments.

## We would like to add a list of the member organizations that are participating to our Github.
You can add your company, team, etc. We want to celebrate and show people who is involved with OMI.

## Virtual Space Design :european_castle:
We discussed this challenge that was issued to the OMI group around creating a communal space for OMI. We think it could be fun to work on this together, and a OMI space (or spaces) could serve multiple purposes. How would you get started? Get involved in the conversation [here](https://github.com/omigroup/OMI/issues/44).

## Open Collective
[Open Collective] (https://opencollective.com/) is a fiscal sponsor, so they take a cut of grants that come in. This is is a great first step. If you are working with a budget of under 100K a year, it's a great start. Great resource for community backing, grants for hackathons, etc.

### Reach out to XREngine to ask questions about their experience with Open Collective

### Alternative to consider is Gitcoin
Yesterday Jin shared the [Gitcoin Grant](https://gitcoin.co/grants/new) process with the group. I (Jesse) think it is worth exploring this alternative as well. Let's open conversation to best grant fit (development for funding dev days, community hack days, etc) and top 5 orgs to approach for grants.

Quadratic Funding for open source projects.

### Question: Can it be both?
A: **Absolutely,** we can pursue grants by gitcoin and still have the the relationship with open collective. We need to have a conversation with the gitcoin folks to ensure everything is ok on their side, **but it looks like we could have both.**

## Virtual World URI's, metadata, somethingfinger
We discussed the alternatives to Virtual World URI's. Humbletim and Nova had a converstaion about what is actually required to transfer between platforms.

In the Matrix (forgive me) in order to move between platforms, you had to negotiate your exit. I think we need that now. If I try to go through a portal and there is dead space with no back button in between the two experiences, that's not a good UX.

The Metadata gives you the opportunity to establish a connection, and negotiate on the transfer.

On Web Apps that is pretty simple, but navigating between Native Apps is a rough experience. As an organization that is outside of our control, but perhaps there are things we could do to make that experience a little easier.

One missing piece for native developers is that metadata. They couldn't navigate between platforms without access to that data.
- what app is needed to open this type of data
- what requirements are there

Jin has a lot of notes on in-world navigation. Others have info on scraping the open world APIs and we could ask them to open source it.<- please ensure I got that right

Virtual Worlds as portal hubs. We could spin up an updated version of how we are going across these worlds and conduct field tests on what information is needed and what gets carried across.

#### There are two aspects to consider the metadata and the protocol or handshake.

Content for showing this concept is powerful, and there aren't many people showing how this would work in practice. It would be cool to create a way for more people to get it.

Robert mentioned that Matt Rossman demonstrated how it could look using Hubs and agrees it was really powerful as a visual demonstration.
https://twitter.com/the_ross_man/status/1381643944786849797?s=20

It was built against a custom version of Hubs that Georgia Tech uses. aksyn has taken that OSS version and made it compatible with standard Hubs, and will share that with the group.

A question was asked about who will participate in this, is the plan to get as many people on board as possible and then use that to convince the big firms to participate?

A callout was made that there is always the threat that we build something that is open and threatens some business models out there, they may form their own groups, in a less-supportive-way.

An automated conformance test suite that is freely licensed, that defines whether the full spec is implemented prevents larger companies racing ahead and claiming interop when there are just two of them. Has this been implemented by provider x.

humbletim previously suggested resources like caniuse for OMI, like a can-I-go matrix highlighting entities who adopt these protocols.

We want to grow and bring more people into this conversation. Opportunities to work with other organizations in our space, and attract more thought leaders to help shape these standards.

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## Note to future reader
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