Scheduled: Dynamic Data and Capabilities WG bi-weekly meeting— September 18, 2018

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September 18, 4pm CET

• Meeting (zoom)
• Notes

See you there!

[pgte]

Meeting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJE59uYNAk&feature=youtu.be

Meeting notes:

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Dynamic Data and Capabilities WG — September 18, 2018

• Lead: Pedro (@pgte)
• Notetaker:
• Attendees:
  • @andreforsousa
  • @pgte
  • @satazor
  • @jimpick
  • @dirkmc
• Zoom.us meeting URL
• Recording

Agenda

1. Start recording
2. Ask everyone to put their name into the list of attendees
3. Ask for a volunteer to take notes
4. Everyone can add items to this agenda for things they would like to discuss
5. Round of intros and updates

• Introduce yourself and your interest in this subject
• What have you accomplished since the last meeting?
• Were there any blockers? If so, which ones? Is it still blocked? Why?
• What is the next important thing you should focus on?

1. Demos
2. Questions

2 Week Updates:

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• Concluded:
• In progress:
• Blocked:
• Next:

@pgte

• Concluded:
  • js-delta-crdts library demo (video)
  • Lab Day
    • peer-star workshop video
  • released v0.7.0 of peer-star-app (issue)
    • Uses official js-ipfs version
    • Fixes some README typos
    • Some efficiency improvements on discovery
  • some new peer-* packages
    • peer-star-react
    • peer-star-network-vis and
    • peer-star-network-vis-react
  • pinning service (inside peer-star-app)
  • Onboarding Jim Pick, to work on peer-star and peer-pad
  • Research Grant for Victor Grischenko - research CRDTs
  • Grant for funding PhD of Adriaan Leijnse, thesis theme TBD approved, starting February
• In progress:
  • Define OKRs for next quarter
• Blocked:
• Next:
• Notes:
  • Ariaan - which university? undecided, but was at ...

@satazor

• Concluded:
  • peer-star workshop video
  • discussify auth flow with uPort video
    • later on we will be using IDM
  • discussify extension setup
    • Had to fight a lot of issues, mainly CSP and CSS styling
      • Used iframes to get around CSP
        • Lifted state to the background
        • Used message passing to communicate between iframes
      • Used shadow-dom to get around CSS styling issues
    • Enable/disable/loading/error state in browser action + state restoration
    • Development niceties, such as automatic reloading when code changes
  • Worked closely with André Sousa on the initial IDM mockups
• In progress:
  • Refining the extension setup
• Blocked:
• Next:
  • Implement discussion list and data-model
    • Will make a PR to peer-star-app-react to allow a function as the collaboratio name, that will receive the props

@andreforsousa

• Concluded:
  • discussify (UI/UX) user-journey scenarios using:
    • uPort;
    • Blockstack;
  • discussify style-guide
  • prepared browser-extension specs handoff;
  • IDM - UX considering some required scenarios;
• In progress:
  • IDM branding:
    • tests on app icon;
    • defined overall concept and look & feel;
  • IDM UI & UX for all pages and user-flows.

@jimpick

• Concluded:
  • first 2 weeks
  • familiarizing with peer-pad and peer-star-app
  • CRDT bug
  • expnt /research with webauthn and some other auth tech
• In Progress:
  • peer-star-app experimentation with "peer-pad-nano"

@dirkmc

• Notes:
• New York
• name system
• Github clone
• IGiS
• igis.io
• pretty quick
• uses CRDTs for comments (rga CRDT)
• sign all of own comments
• each comment is it's own rga
• working on authentication now
• using rga CRDT for pull requests
• each comment is a link to ipfs
• satazor - same approach to storing comments as in discussify
• uses orbit

Identity (IDM) demo

• discussion about identity and auth
  • https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-star/blob/rfc-identity/docs/rfc-identity.md
• DID methods/resolvers
  • https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-registry