Meeting 2022 11 15

Title: Virtual Meeting Open Athletics (Nov 2022)

When / Where

• Tue 15 Nov 2022, at 09:00 UTC (10:00 CEST, see Other cities)
• https://meet.jit.si/openathletics

Agenda

• Extracting data from World Athletics' site
• AOB

Minutes

Attendees:

• Jani (front end dev)
• Duje (Track Meeting Info)
• Mark (Athletics.app)
• Alessio (atletica.me)
• Andy (OpenTrack)
• Martin (Huawei)
• Eddy (Timetronics)

News

• Informal discussion about the activities and short-term actions from the participants.
• European Athletics seems interested to repeat the AthTech in Sep, Oct in Europe.
• Suggestion of XC Meetups planned in London
• WA already opened their DB to the member federations and started collaboration with them (and providers).
• We should offer the possibility of multiply use cases, services and apps based on their data (i.e., through open Meetups, engaging community, etc.)

Scraping the data from WA

• Duje scrapped the full web of WA (showed how he did it).
• The website uses graphql to access the calendar data. So it will be easy to get that info if WA allow it.

AOB

• Next meeting: 20th Dec, same time