Meeting 2017 06 21

Meeting: Wed 21 June, 08:00 UTC (See other locations)

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Attendees:

AndyR: [Showing http://test-data.opentrack.run]
… List of clubs and details about clubs.
… Different type of organisations.
… All of this can be crowdsourced.
… Also information about competitions.
… Competition management and entries.
… [England Masters Outdoors Track and Field example]
… [Example of Rio Summer Games]
… There is a list of events already predefined. Events have a ad-hoc structure of rounds.
… This tool is useful to record the competition as it happens and afterwards we publish the information as open data.
… This will be also represented in a nicer way.
Martin: Crowdsourced? Clubs will be able to change their details.
Andy: We would like to rely on federations. The idea is moderate the information we receive from the world.
Maxim: The purpose of the tool is capturing information after the competition happened, or during the competition?
Andy: One contract we have is a platform for entries and competition management. This will be a easy tool for federations.
… Another tool we have is about results.
… EA wants to have a mechanism to quickly identify, lets say, the best athletes at the moment.
… So management of results in competition.
… The final result will be shown in a open database.
… [Example of http://estonia.opentrack.run]

Maxim: [Presenting the upload spreadsheet for atletiek.nu]
… Really simple: 6 columns (name, category, wind, birth date, license number, etc.)
… Licenses number doesn’t change.
Andy: Do you have an API?
Maxim: Yes, there is a proper API to access data.
… We have agreements with the Dutch union to manage all results in the Netherlands.
… For rankings they have to put it manually, but the idea is making it automatically.
AndyW: For throws, do you record all the competition?
Maxim: No, just the best throw.
AndyR: Interesting what you do with spreadsheets.
… Scoring spreadsheet is perhaps the simpler approach.
… Do you include Road races in your system.
Maxim: Not focused but there are some road races.
Andy: [Andy showing live events management]
… http://opentrack.run/shotdemo/
… We should think in cooperating.
AndyR: The idea is that federations maintain their DBs and publish all the information as Open Data.
… So there will be always official data exposed to create rankings and don’t miss any result.