Re: Generic Sensor API Breakout planned at W3C TPAC

Should have added: there will likely be a possibility of remote 
participation, so this should also be of interest of folks that aren't 
physically at TPAC

On 10/7/2014 3:46 PM, Philipp Hoschka wrote:
> Given the many sensors in a car and in the vehicle API, this breakout 
> session might be of interest of BG folks attending TPAC
>
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2014/SessionIdeas#Generic_Sensor_API
>
> (copying description below)
>
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>>     Generic Sensor API
>>
>>   * Proposer: Anssi Kostiainen, Mounir Lamouri
>>
>> A number of sensors are already exposed to the Web Platform 
>> (e.g.Geolocation <http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/>,Device 
>> Orientation 
>> <http://w3c.github.io/deviceorientation/spec-source-orientation.html>) and 
>> new sensors are on their way (e.g.Ambient Light 
>> <http://w3c.github.io/ambient-light/>) -- however, each API looks and 
>> feels different. Is this an issue, and if yes, how to fix that?
>>
>> Currently, there is no established design pattern for sensor APIs on 
>> the Web Platform. Meanwhile, outside the browser-land, the Node.js 
>> community has defined and implementedcomposable APIs 
>> <https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five/#sensors>for exposing new 
>> sensors rapidly. Can we learn from each other? In this session we 
>> discuss the known issues of the current sensor APIs on the Web 
>> Platform and review the recent concrete proposals for sensor API 
>> unification (see background materials). Example open questions: 
>> should we decouple the sensor APIs from the window object to make it 
>> feasible to implement the APIs in other contexts outside browsers 
>> (e.g. Node.js, Internet/Web of Things)?
>>
>> The generic sensor API deliverable isin scope 
>> <http://www.w3.org/2011/07/DeviceAPICharter#deliverables>for the W3C 
>> Device APIs Working Group, but the concrete specification work has 
>> not yet started. Come join our session, and influence the direction 
>> of this potential new work item.
>>
>>   * Type: open discussion
>>   * Background materials:
>>       o Sensor API Unification Sketch by Rick Waldron
>>         <https://github.com/rwaldron/sensors>
>>       o Tim Volodine's proposal
>>         <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2014Sep/0024.html>
>>
>>   * Interested in attending: Ryoichi Kawada, Rick Waldron, Domenic
>>     Denicola, Tobie Langel, Claes Nilsson, DomHM, Mounir Lamouri,
>>     Dave Raggett, Wonsuk Lee
>>
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