Booking API Editors Draft 0.5

Hi,

Over the past few months, with support from a number of members of the
OpenActivity community, we've been making progress on the Booking API
specification.

The process so far has been:

* early prototyping and rapid development of a specification, producing a
0.3 draft

* revisions and review of the specification to explore additional
requirements, producing a 0.4 draft

Both of these have been google docs to facilitate rapid feedback and edits.
Based on that we've learned from those exercises we've now created a more
formal Editors Draft of the booking API.

Version 0.5 of the API can be found here:

https://www.openactive.io/open-booking-api/EditorsDraft/index.html

The project board for ongoing development can be found here:

https://github.com/openactive/open-booking-api/projects/1

The plan is to now iterate on this spec using github issues, our regular
community group calls and, hopefully, through continued prototyping and
testing by the community.

We think this specification is stable enough for people to explore
implementations and want to actively encourage that to help us collect
useful implementation feedback.

If you implemented version 0.3 of the specification, or are planning some
projects where booking is required, it would be helpful if you could
consider moving to this specification and give feedback on any potential
issues. As always we need to give the caveat that details will change, but
we've had a lot of good feedback on it so far.

Don't get caught up on the version numbering, its more of a progress
indicator than a sense of how much we need to do to get to 1.0. My feeling
is that we're actually close to completing a version 1.0 that will support
booking of Events based on our original set of requirements.

Now that we have facilities in the modelling specification we'll able to
quickly implement booking support for those too.

Cheers,

L.

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