CoMPAS in-person meetup 2025 recap
Date: 9 September LF energy Summit in Aachen
LF Energy Summit Europe | LF Events
Recommended Hotel: Mercure Hotel Aachen Europaplatz
Location: RWTH Aachen (Room 00.17 - seats 15)
Global meeting goals:
Get to know each other better / lower the barrier for collaboration
Understand the current development and use-cases and share idea’s about future work
Target Audience:
Engineers interested in CoMPAS
Developers
Agenda
Time | Subject | Who | Ideal ouput |
|---|---|---|---|
9:00 | Welcome / short project introduction / Get to know each other Check restaurant interest
Group picture | TSC chair @Sander Jansen | Setting the scene |
9:30 -11:30
(10:30 10 minute break) | Overview; Who is working on what (TSO/DSO/Engineering companies/vendors) | 1 per TSO/DSO/organisation
10 minutes 5 minutes comments | Better understanding who is doing what |
11:30 - 12:00 | CoMPAS tutorial/ Demo; How OpenSCD works - engineering workflow
Including new plug-ins | (Bearingpoint and/or TransnetBW) | Better understand the software and the use-case Record the session |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| Own cost https://www.studierendenwerk-aachen.de/en/eating-drinking/dining-halls-and-cafeterias.html |
13:00 - 13:45 | SCD generation proces | RTE (jean-etienne) | Understand how the process works (input and output) |
13:45 - 14:30 | Architecture: Where do we want to collaborate on together? | @Jakob Vogelsang | List of collaboration topics |
14:30 - 15:00 | Blocker including break | tbd |
|
15:00 - 16:00 | Evaluate our way of working into 2 groups: Engineering / software | Transpower/Bearingpoint for the dev session
| Community improvement points |
16:00 - 17:00 | Define next steps (Actionpoints) | @Stefan Baumgartner | Actionpoints with names to move the community futher |
18:30; Recommend restaurant @Stefan Baumgartner; https://www.aachener-brauhaus.de/
List of participants
Participant join from several companies including Alliander, Bearingpoint, TransnetBW, SprintEins, RTE and Omicron electronics.
You need to register in order to participate (seats are limited):
CoMPAS Community Meetup at LF Online Community LF Energy
Idea’s list:
Make an engineering track and development track (for only parts of the day)
Find a common place to eat / other fun activity (city game)
Open Questions:
How takes note of the action points? - Stefan
Who brings a countdown clock? - Sander
Do we allow everyone?
Yes, high change of known persons, otherwise we ask for an introduction.
Q&A
With input from @Dan Brown
Is their any cost involved for the participants?
Since this is taking place the day before the main summit, registration is NOT required for the main summit to attend, so there's no cost. Of course we hope that you will encourage everyone to register for the main summit as well.
Is their a plan related to the Lunch?
All we are able to provide is the room with a projector/screen. If you folks want to provide lunch for attendees, you would need to organize that yourselves (I know the GridFM group is doing this for their meetup, so there are local caterers who can deliver to the campus if you have the budget to cover that). The easiest option would be building in a lunch break and letting participants go out to lunch; there's a cafeteria on campus and many restaurants nearby.
How can partipicants register? Is this something we need to do ourself?
We have a question on the main summit registration form about interest in these meetups/workshops, however this will not be an official registration but rather just to get an idea of how many folks to expect to show up. If you want a formal registration form, you'd need to manage that yourselves. I'm happy to set you up with the LF event registration platform (https://community.linuxfoundation.org); a number of your colleagues at Alliander already use this for Power Grid Model and OpenSTEF meetups.
Can we change the roomsize if we happen to have more interest than expected?
We hope that this is the case, but it will be dependent on availability from RWTH Aachen.
Report out
The CoMPAS meetup was a great success! We had more than 15 participants.
Worked out action items assigned to different teams:
Everyone:
Show and tell and spread around the coolness and greatness of OpenSCD/CoMPAS/OMICRON Open Source Software
@Jakob Vogelsang :
SCL-lib move to OpenSCD
Cleanup of old Repos
@Jakob Birnbaumer + Stephen Renwick:
@David Monichi :
@Tamás Russ :
Slides:
