Meeting 2021 03 15

When / Where

• Monday 15th March, at 13:00 UTC (09:00 Boston, 14:00 CET, see Other cities)
• https://meet.jit.si/openathletics

Agenda:

• Type of events, by discipline (see example)
• Type of competitions (Governing Body classification) (see example)
• AOB

Minutes

Present:

• Andy R.
• Martin A.
• Johannes R.
• Nicola L.
• Duje B.
• Mark

Types of Events

• Presentation of the example of complete representation of disciplines: https://espinr.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/disciplines/ and discussion if we need a way to identify all the types of events univocally.

• Event code by OpenTrack, practical purposes are okay but not solve the universal interoperability problem.

• Andy showed a proposal to extend the codes that covers the same type of challenges: audience and type of surface.

• We should start by agreeing a high level taxonomy after we can continue with the concrete types of events.

• [Recommendations related to Trackmeetings.info] IT,AU, SB, HU, scrapping calendars. Some competitions for younger age groups are included also.

• Also Hurdles details are only described with a text field.

• Regarding modeling events, all the information should be included at the lowest level as possible. On top of that, you can create aggregates.

General Audience at Competition level

• New idea proposed by Andy, including general audience for the whole event.
• To indicate the kind of competitors that could be found (e.g., serious athletes, women friendly event, etc.)
• Interesting for fun runs
• Martin to open issue on target audiences to keep the conversation going.

AOB

• Duje's update about AthTech and the Athletics Festival:

  • Sponsors are growing: Ministry of Tourism and City of Zadar wants to collaborate.
  • Everything continues on track for the event to be held on the end September.

• Discussion about promotion of the initiative.

• Next week in 4 weeks: 12 April 2021