CoMPAS meetup 2023

To improve the collaboration and understanding etc. The idea is to organize an in-person meetup.

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Global meeting goals:

Bring everyone on the same page
Lower the barrier for collaboration

Date

23/24 January 2023

Agenda

Day

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Morning

8:30 start

CoMPAS general goals/mission (Sander Jansen )
OpenSCD general goals/mission (Jakob Vogelsang )

Ideal output:

Validate the existing high-level project mission and first start with the OpenSCD mission.

Product vision

10:00

Demo/explanation of the current state of CoMPAS/OpenSCD (Jakob Vogelsang)
- OpenSCD-core
SCD generation process walk-through (RTE) Jean-Etienne LEMAIRE

Ideal output:

Good understanding of the current state of CoMPAS/OpenSCD and the SCD generation process made by RTE

8:30 start

How to maintain/govern the software?
- LF energy governance model
- How to work in practice: Who maintains what? What are the procedures etc.

Ideal output:

9:30

How to build your own distribution (Christian Hildebrandt?)

Ideal output: common understanding of how to create a OpenSCD / CoMPAS distribution

10:00

Community retro: How are we collaborating and where do we need to improve
- Subjects from the previous retro :
  - Proposal of labelling decisions as an issue and how to prepare the refinement more in advance in the contribution page
  - Discuss on another tool better than git to manage functional documentation and US

Ideal output: Action list on collaboration improvements

Afternoon

13:00 CoMPAS Roadmap, where to go next with CoMPAS/OpenSCD?

Workshop host: Sander Jansen

Ideal output: Better understanding of future needs (use-cases and features)

Get common roadmap understanding:

Roadmap goals?
Why have a roadmap?

Inspiration:

(EN) Roadmaps are dead! Long live roadmaps! (Bruce McCarthy, Founder @ ProductCulture) - YouTube

Per company present their plans

Alliander (Sander Jansen )
RTE (Jean-Etienne LEMAIRE )
Omicron / TransnetzBW (Christian Hildebrandt )
Transpower (Jakob Vogelsang )

Discuss potentential overlap.

Transpower: open-scd/ROADMAP.md at 9314b67603235e3c0763cb6840f10d0e48769490 · danyill/open-scd (github.com)

Add roadmap items to

CoMPAS Roadmap or OpenSCD roadmap

Community growth plan

- Quality assurance process
- 61850 Engineering hub (blog/forum/confluence?)
- LF energy summit (who want to speak?)

[DM, Transpower] - How can collaboration occur at an institutional level with OpenSCD/CoMPAS?

If a utility needs/wants a feature implemented, how can they achieve this?

Write code directly?
Hire a developer to implement the feature?
Have some commercial agreements with main stakeholders (e.g. Alliander/Omicron/LF Energy)?
- Can OpenSCD be shepherded under a "foundation"?
- Are there better institutional mechanisms to do this formally via CoMPAS to avoid overhead?
- (even if the contributions are to the OpenSCD project?)

Transpower would likely prefer Option 3. Option 2 would still require some assistance.

Ideal output: Action list on how to grow the community

13:00 Technical/Architecture discussions and proposals

Talk about CoMPAS SCL Validator (pascal wilbrink)
Architecture discussion
Work together on new features

[DM] How to document OpenSCD as it becomes more distributed into separate projects (open-scd#1057)? By itself this will raise the barrier to entry.
Need to generate documentation for a given distribution and its plugins?
API documentation?

RTE is leaving is 16:00

Evening

Hang out in the bar; 19:00

Eat out together

Location