Meeting 2024 09 04

Title: Open Athletics Virtual Meeting - Sep 2024

When / Where

Meeting to synchronize after the summer
Opportunities for collaboration with OpenActive CG. We will join a meeting today so we can check synergies.
No specific activities expected in the group, but we all are interested in keeping the community and push for interoperability.

Martin: We can propose a session on 25 September -> breakout sessions. Martin will be there so we can propose a session to attract other groups, promote our activities and see if we can continue with interoperability specs.
Nicolas: Propose the invitation to the federations. The activities are open, so perfect.
Andy can invite people from Anaheim -> interest in the interoperability of GPS. Martin will draft an agenda so we will be able to share it with him and invite him.
Andy mentioned that there is a strong open-source movement in LATAM for event management software. We can add it to the description and try to find people that can support the topic.

Andy: proposal to host it in Oxford, in May. But still unlikely.
Alexio proposed to host AthTech in San Marino (Innovation Lab in San Marino)
Next Sep World Champs in Tokyo, Oct. San Diego. We should make it after that.
Nicolas: We look at the ideal dates could be around 6-10th October. After road world champs.
In three weeks we will see if there is other options. Otherwise, we can block and start the organization.

[Andy and Andras had a technical discussion on federated WA calendar]
[Andy will share the notes after the meeting]
Andy's proposal to improve the API to receive the WA ID for the competitions after a calendar submission. Currently, it's a manual operation.

Solving long jump and triple jump competitions with an open hardware/software solution.
Eddy is willing to donate his open source software for controlling cameras for helping competitions with low budgets. This would enable the use of low-cost equipment (apart from the camera) for ruling sports - grassroots.
Andy: Difficult to find funds for open source, and offered some guidance on where to find support.
Eddy: not interested in funding. More on the cooperation side.
Eddy: help is needed for open source/operation governance. It would be great to have involvement from WA, EA.
Martin to look for opportunities on this.

Next meeting 9th October (11.00 CEST)
Proposal to use other forums, like Discord. Ivan did a study and proposed using Facebook groups. We will discuss this during the next meeting.