Summary of community group call, 15th August

Hi,

In today's community group call we reviewed progress on the booking API
specification and several recent additions, including:

* support for exposing terms and conditions and privacy notices
* support for cancellations and refunds

Slides are here, including requests for feedback on several proposals:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VEsicULV18n2NOKKw-Vl7V8z9dKcTWfVdDsw9YrBJWI/edit#slide=id.p3

The key conclusions are that:

* we need to add support for privacy notices, in addition to terms and
conditions
* we should consider how best to provide this, often service level
information, in ways that minimises repetition of data
* we need to support marketing opt-in information
* we need to be careful around conformance language re: marketing opt-in,
etc to ensure that we are inline with current GDPR and marketing email
guidance
* that as not all platforms support refunds, we cannot mandate
refund/cancellation support, but it will be recommended
* there is a need to include windows during which cancellations/refunds can
be accepted, and whether cancellations are allowed, to improve user
experience of bookings
* we also agreed to review how URL discovery is currently specified to
ensure we're avoiding need to replicate data in feeds

Next call is on the 29th August and will be focused on any blocking issues
that will stop us releasing Open Booking 1.0 and Modelling Opportunity Data
2.0.

Cheers,

L.

-- 
Leigh Dodds, Data Infrastructure Programme Lead, theodi.org
@ldodds
The ODI, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE