Conventions Call September 12th 2024 - Standards, design patterns, & discussion of OAGI tooling

Greg, Vic, Rose, Juliet

  • Greg made must? Quick fermentation of grapes into sparkling juice? Rose is also a fermentation guy.
  • Potential for Plans to play a bigger role in PODS / CCD work, since we’ll need to reference conservation plans within the data structure itself -
    • R & J back-and-forth on cost convention structure - mapped in miro here
    • The Thing that Mike Built
    • Greg’s issue about it
    • We need to be making design decisions, publicly facing, & iterate on it – for a cost convention, energy convention, and labor convention. Greg - nearly everyone will need these, or they can ignore them, but I would like them in the base convention
      • ‘Everything and the kitchen sink’ in the base convention and everyone makes their own vs making a very simple, basic form that everyone adds to. The first allows for everyone to pick what they want, but the domain is restricted. The second necessarily means people create non-compatible conventions for the same thing.
    • Rose: “Now that I understand…we should be describing the conventions differently.” and then we all had a big laugh.
      • More focus on the pattern/template aspect
      • Idea: you use our tooling to get you from farmOS to the design patterns under the ‘big tent’ your organization needs
        • Then use something like OAGI ConnectCenter to define - and then the UI requires you to be compliant, and NRCS researchers ‘can do this all day long and nothing bad happens’
        • Jim Wilson from OAGI - Standards expert, making opensource product for convention management, ConnectCenter, which gives you a graphical UI into a standard. You set up your big data model, and then people can view it. Both bounds & visualizes your data model, with their experience over 20 years of building collaborative standards.
          • Includes processes for e.g. requesting a new attribute
          • Allows for input in json schema and output in multiple formats (csv, xml etc)
          • Committee that meets weekly and tells you why they’re not going to add your thing
      • Really want to connect him & Juliet because shares so much process-wise with what has happened thru Cover Crop Council