Working Groups

From time-to-time, EWC will establish a working group aimed at facilitating technical discussion on topics which are brought up by the EWC Technical coordinator or arise from the participants in EWC.

Contents

• The process for EWC Working Groups
• How to propose a Working Group
• List of active Working Groups
• List of proposed Working Groups
• List of Working Groups that have finished

The process for EWC Working Groups

• A request for a Working Group can be proposed to T4.1 (Marina Adomeit and Esther Makaay), who will take this up with the Technical coordinator (Peter Altmann).
  • Send an e-mail to request a working group, specifying the topic, describing the issue(s) and the proposed outcome or goal of the work.
  • It is helpful to discuss this proposal in one of the Friday meetings. Contact Esther Makaay if you want to schedule this (but you are welcome to propose it at any Techtalk).
• Participants to this group are EWC project members that are actively contributing to the issue at hand. This group is NOT to be used for information sharing, the #expert-dialogue slack channel and Friday meetings will be used as venues for this. To ensure such participation, the potential participants should write a short statement about their position to the topic of the working group.
• If it adds value, participants external to EWC can be invited, for example to foster the interoperability with other LSPs, standard developments, et cetera.
• Working Groups should ideally be small in size so that discussion can be driven and consensus can be achieved quickly between participants.
• Working Groups will run for as long as they are deemed necessary but will ideally be short-term and issue focused.
• A chair for the group is chosen from the working group members.
  • It is responsibility of the chair to drive to work and discussion within the working group and to deliver the anticipated results.
• Support to run the group will be done by WP4.1 (meeting organisation, taking and publishing notes, communication etc.).
• The number of active Working Groups will be limited because of available resources (both in active participants and support from T4.1).
• An appropriate output from the group is produced, typically a report, white paper, set of recommendations, demo etc. This output by default will be public information.
• Progress and intermediary results can be discussed in the EWC Friday meetings.
• When the Working Group is in agreement, the chair shares the outputs with the EWC consortium.

How to propose a Working Group

• Send a request for an new Working Group to Marina Adomeit(marina'at'sunet.se) with Esther Makaay (esther.makaay'at'signicat.com) on cc.
  • This request should contain all the information needed to evaluate your proposal. You can find the information you need to include listed in "Proposing a Working Group".
  • You can copy/paste the information in the e-mail, add a filled-out document as an attachment, or put the document on NextCloud and link to it in your mail.
• Try to design your proposal in a narrow, specific and short-lived way.
  • We have limited resources for support (and probably also in participation). We prefer supporting several short-time Working Groups (max 2-3 months) with a tightly scoped output (even in sketch/draft) over elaborate plans that drag on for half a year.
  • If you have bigger plans, break it down in smaller chunks (think "sprints") and propose them as separate Working Groups.
  • Be very clear about what the outcome will be of your proposed Working Group. It doesn't need to be a full-blown professional deliverable. It can be a sketch/draft or a first outcome of something you want to explore further.
  • We expect all outcomes of a Working Group to be public information. If there's a good reason to limit the outcome, your topic might not be suitable for handling in a Working Group.
• Ask for help in designing and setting up your proposal if you are unsure how to scope or phrase it. (Ask Marina and Esther)
• You can always discuss any ideas on a proposal for a Working Group in the Friday meetings.

What happens next?

• After sending a proposal for a new Working Group, it will be evaluated (T4.1 with Technical Coordinator).
  • If there are any further questions, the evaluation group will reach out to the requestor.
• The outcome and status will be communicated (to the requestor and on this page).
  • Depending on the work-load and active Working Groups, a start date will be determined.
  • T4.1 will reach out to the Chair on the need for support.
• New Working Groups will be announced to EWC.
  • Communication (and a call for action) depend on the topic, scope and what's needed.
  • All Working Groups are listed on this page, but some might be announced through the mailinglist.
• The actual work will start, supported by T4.1.

Active Working Groups

Proposed Working Groups

1. SD-JWT/VCDM issues

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2. ODI definition

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3. QR-code standardisation

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Working Groups that have finished