Re: Materials from 2019-07-02 DID Working Group Charter meeting

Thanks so much Sethi, that's wonderful! I'm not sure if you were asking
about this task specifically, but in case you are (and also, Carlos, in
response to your question):

The best way to get exposed to the minute publishing process is here:
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/publish.html. The video in that page (
https://youtu.be/0Sn7co2eSCo) gives an overview of how everything works.

Manu spent a lot of effort building this codebase that does the irc log ->
html conversion, minute posting, etc. Then a handful of others of us spent
effort updating for different functionality, adding utilities,
documentation, and readmes, so the code/docs should be more explanatory
than ever before.

Warning: any knowledge of these tools is currently based on self-driven
digging, nagging Manu, and artifacts we generated based on that (like the
link/tutorial above). It's possible only ~5 people know how these work
(even partially). However, understanding those tools is incredibly valuable
for the community. It allows us to respond to requests like this in a
scalable way.

Because of the importance of understanding these tools, I could definitely
commit a future CCG call to a knowledge transfer session. In general, I'd
love to have a dedicated call to discuss volunteer opportunities. So Sethi,
if this particular one doesn't match your skill set, we could discuss other
opportunities on a call (with minutes posted subsequently for those who
can't attend but would also like to volunteer).

On the topic of volunteers...I'll use this as an opportunity to acknowledge
some recent heavy lifter volunteers who make our work succeed. We all take
for granted the usual heavy lifters like Manu, Markus, Drummond, Brent,
Ken, Dan Burnett, and TallTed. But witnessing their perseverance through
intricate work, like the DID specification and charter, all the while
dodging (nearly literal) knife throwing, is inspiring.

I know many of us think of them as possessing unique, arcane knowledge, and
yeah that's sort of true, but they do this by digging in, figuring out what
needs figuring out, and collaborating with other volunteers in this
community. We could not thrive as a community group without this sort of
involvement, and it's critical to our ongoing success. Not only is it
important to ensure our work represents a broad group of interests, it
helps avoid burnout of a few over-taxed individuals.

So I want to also thank Sethi for stepping up now, with willingness to
commit to helping in whatever way he can. And also huge thanks to Bill
Barnhill, a recent volunteer who has  thrown himself into the spectext
research and prototypes. His work specifically opens up our processes to an
ever broader range of people (i.e. making conversion to spectext easy for
non-tech folks). I can't emphasize enough how impactful this is.

Lastly, to everyone in the community -- many of these tasks may appear to
be a menial task, lacking in glory. And yeah, we do a lot of boring, unpaid
tasks* to keep the wheels running. But keeping our community goals in mind,
any effort helps further our important work. So chip in wherever you can.

Even if that's scribing. I note that we had no volunteers again today, and
had to revert to the list of people who always do it (sorry Manu).
Volunteer to scribe. And if you don't know how, then sit back and enjoy a
fantastic video tutorial another valuable volunteer (Andrew Hughes) has
made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sn7co2eSCo&t=1s

* The hard work we do here may not make you an "Identity Influencer", but
it will allow you to _influence_ the future of self-sovereign identity. :)

Your chair,
Kim

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:32 AM sethi shivam <sethishivam27@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kim ,
>
> Is there any possibility that I can work as a Volunteer. Currently, i am
> working on the development of a product that will offer DID services.
> And I am very much interested in DID and related work.
>
> Regards
> Sethi Shivam
>
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 12:50, Kim Hamilton <kimdhamilton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for volunteering Carlos! And thanks Manu for extending the request
>> for volunteers before I could. This is a community-driven effort, so it's
>> great to have new folks stepping in to help.
>>
>> Let us know if you have any questions about getting started, Carlos.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:11 AM Carlos Bruguera <cbruguera@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 on converting the logs to web readable format. 🙏
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:02 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/9/19 5:07 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
>>>> > The meeting notes and recording are not in Google doc, but in
>>>> > Github:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> https://github.com/w3c-ccg/meetings/tree/gh-pages/2019-07-02-did-wg-charter
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> You can see that there's a ".log" file and a ".mp4" file in the
>>>> > repository.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, but that requires a bit of insider knowledge to understand... and
>>>> I expect that many don't click through.
>>>>
>>>> For the more recent meetings we have logs, yes... wondering if we can
>>>> pull some of the older meetings from Google Docs into some
>>>> publicly-readable format... there were a few in the beginning that
>>>> didn't make it over to .logs.
>>>>
>>>> We should probably also convert these .log files into our standard
>>>> Web/email readable format here:
>>>>
>>>> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-06-25/
>>>>
>>>> and post them to the mailing list as we do for our regular calls:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2019Jun/0044.html
>>>>
>>>> ... and I say this knowing full well it's more work to do that and we're
>>>> all really pressed for time. Publishing .log files is the bare minimum
>>>> that we need to protect ourselves from future IPR concerns (and it's
>>>> good CG hygiene to publish in a way that is accessible to all --
>>>> including those behind a firewall and those using screen readers -- the
>>>> log files are pretty terrible for that).
>>>>
>>>> The good news is that we have the raw source files (.log and .mp4) to go
>>>> back and generate the minutes retroactively... now all we need is a
>>>> volunteer to do that. :)
>>>>
>>>> So... any volunteers want to learn how to publish the groups minutes so
>>>> we can start doing that for Task Forces? It will only hurt a little bit,
>>>> I promise. :)
>>>>
>>>> -- manu
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny)
>>>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>>>> blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches
>>>> https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>