2025-08-08 Meeting notes

2025-08-08 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 8, 2025

Goals

  • Update

Discussion items

Item

Who

Notes

Item

Who

Notes

Charter

@Paul Boyes 

  • Document done and will be presented to the board.

  • Document can be re visited and adapted in the future.

Paper

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello 

  • Accepted as position paper.

Milestones 

@Paul Boyes 

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello 

  • Create feature issue

    • label as feature tag

    • then link it tp project

    • add milestones

  • Example milestones (feat has multiple milestones/subitems):

    • Feat: VSS information is fully mirrored in VDM repo

      • sub items that enable it.

    • Feat: Roundtrip path between VSS and VDM

    • Feat: Enabling compatibility with semantic web standards

    • ...

S2DM & VDM education plan?

@Paul Boyes 

  • Enhanced website (ongoing)

    • How to ...guides?

      • start a new domain model?

      • adopt existing standards?

      • how do I migrate from current VSS?

      • ...

  • Workshops

    • AMM

      • Presentation → Full mirrored version of VSS in this approach.

        • Address FAQs directly in the presentation to avoid concerns (see action item).

      • Demo / hands-on session

    • Tutorial videos (already an action item from other session was written down)

  • Hand-on proposal

    • e.g., develop a new exporter.

  • Paper

    • Technical / position paper (done)

    • Business paper (in progress) - any member can be part of it.

  • @Stephen Lawrence Asian ecosystem 

    • How to get Honda and others onboard?

    • Strong need for migration guide!

      • How do you get from vss to vdm?

      • @Daniel Alvarez-Coello Starting on green field is easier!

      • To prepare material first and once stable state is reached, we can pitch it to others.

Action items

Write down a list of questions that might cover the common misunderstandings or concerns from covesa community about VDM (and S2DM). @Chaitanya Podalakuru @Paul Boyes and all.
Prepare an example of how to handle issues in the GitHub @Chaitanya Podalakuru 
Iterate over the milestones.