Meeting 2024 05 07

Title: Open Athletics Virtual Meeting - May 2024

When / Where

• Tue 7th May 2024, at 08:00 UTC (10:00 CEST, see Other cities)
• https://meet.jit.si/openathletics

Agenda

1. New participants?
2. Latest news - progress
3. Should we keep the monthly calls?
4. AOB

Minutes

Participants:

• Martin Alvarez
• Andy Robinson
• Nicolas Launois
• Johannes Rosenmöller

Open discussion about the future activities in the group

• Discussion about Athlete IDs, based on WA's identifiers, as a good opportunity for any third-party solution.
• If this is implemented as OpenID, athletes could log in to other websites using their unique IDs.
• So far, WA offers an API service to query their BD to extract information based on athletes' IDs (mainly for service providers).
• Interesting topics to bring to the group:
  • World Athletics Heritage -> digital archive (photos, articles, etc.) but a good idea to put the assets in an open database. To invite them to the next virtual meeting.
  • Standards as a way to solve the challenges for the federations and the vendor lock-in?
  • Standards for trainers/coaching? (currently, they keep all the data, no sharing) --> "Athlete empowerment"
  • Next AthTech organization?

TPAC

• The group may have a slot in the TPAC 2024 - Sep 23, 2024
• Martin can present the group in public to ask for feedback.
• We can send explicit invitations to trainer's associations, IPTC, and other institutions in the US

Next steps

• Keep the group alive.
• Organize the next meeting in some weeks to keep the planning.