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NOTE: Meeting is sometimes cancelled on short notice. We typically communicate that here and/or in the COVESA Slack channel for Data Expert Group. If no-one shows up within 5 minutes the meeting is likely cancelled!
Meeting Agenda
- Welcome and Compliance statement
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- Agenda discussion - anything that needs to be added?
- Prioritized topics
- Walk through ongoing topics in “Backlog/Kanban Board”. Each Pillar should have a work product their group is working toward and status.
- Prioritized topics for next meeting
- Date for next monthly report discussion
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- have a work product their group is working toward and status.
- Prioritized topics for next meeting
- Date for next monthly report discussion
Upcoming topics
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Cross Group Artifacts | On topics, personally I would to advance discussions on the cross group artifacts. Things like data sets, schemas, VSS packaging, meta-data, governance and touchpoints. We know the data modelling discussion is being re-energised.There is also a proliferating set of projects. What synergies are there across them? What are the re-use and collaboration opportunities to do more with less?This should all be pragmatic, with a view towards outcomes. | |
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Signal Relationships | Interest from Ford and BMW | |
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Data availablity / Datasets | Request for sample data often mentioned | |
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PoC | What would a good PoC look like? Available poC: - VISSR
- Eclipse Kuksa
- COVESA Central Data Service Playground
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Meeting notes 2025-04-17
Meeting notes 2025-04-03
- AMM Sessions
- AP: Present first iterations of slides and "summary for agenda" at next meeting April 17th
Meeting notes 2025-03-20
- VSS-discussions
- Is "Profile" a good name - we already use the term "profile" for other cases like the "motorbike profile"
- For network serialization -we may have different needs for different networks
- Will be a starting point, could influence "Vss next gen"
- Erik can refactor his PR to "allow" contributions, then we can see what happens from there. For now skip formal syntax, limited interest.
Meeting notes 2025-03-06
- The VISS WG has published the VISSv3.0 release candidate 1
https://github.com/COVESA/vehicle-information-service-specification/releases/tag/v3.0rc1
A review period is now started that will end at March 28.
Comments are very welcome. - AMM Agenda
Meeting notes 2025-02-06
- Jan to give presentation on Federate
- Cross group artifacts
- Stephen:
- We can pick up some tickets here, inform/coordinate
- Recurring: data sets, metadata,
- AOSP emulator - could be expressed as need, but maybe they do not have time/knowledge to do it
- Erik: VSS-profile proposed at https://github.com/COVESA/vss-tools/issues/436
- PoC
- erik: what do we want to achieve?, there is VISSR and Eclipse kuksa showing VSS usage from different aspects. Also architecture playground
- Datasets
- Signal relationships vs. tree (classic VSS)
- Ulf: layered approach needed
- Snapp blogpost
- For next meeting try to identify topic
Meeting notes 2025-01-23
- Android
- AOSP workstream started, checking what already exist
- Compare seat concept
- Will be recurring meeting
- Playground
- Stephen has updated playground to latest VISSR
- VISS v3 in review, last date for comment Feb 21
- Meetings schedule/setup:
- Erik: It has not been much activity in this meeting lately. Special topics have been handled in separate meetings. I think we need to do something
- Only have the meeting when/if we have topics to discus?
- Change schedule, bi-weekly/monthly?
- Or does someone have time/interest to drive topics?
- Ulf: Every second week ok (from Slack)
- Paul: Meeting was intended to guide/align all activities in DEG
- Ted: Could collapse TST and DEG to one
- Paul: The CVI meeting is quite similar to this one
- Stephen: use this slot for more of general presentations
- Erik: Good if we have agenda on what will be discussed
- Paul: Lets move it to lower freqency.
- Erik: Change this to biweekly, gives possibility to use every other second week for other general public presentations?
- ted: Shift some topics from other groups to here, let them invite others
- Stephen: prefer high quality updates
- Paul: Proposal - move to every two weeks, try to present agenda in advance
- Decided, Paul to update calendar!
- Federate
- Would be great if Jan present in two weeks
Meeting notes 2024-11-14
- PauI: I would like to discuss/ideate on best way to figure out adoption rates particularly for VSS. Start to discuss discretely scoped projects (e.g. tools, how-to, …) that would be useful to COVESA.
- Github project created for VSOMEIP - see https://github.com/orgs/COVESA/projects/13
- Capabilities project
Meeting notes 2024-10-31
- AOSP wanted direction has an overlap with what happens in the data part of Data Expert Group
- Adnan: Need to figure out how to engage in capability discussion
- Swen: Will give update on data exchange platform in commercial vehicle call
Meeting notes 2024-10-24
- Winter time in EU Oct 27th (Us Nov 3rd) - so meetings shifted 1 hour next week for persons not in EU
- Paul: VSOMEIP - discussing with them on contrib process, trying to get them to create a list before things being implemented
- Contribution process - continued discussion
- Paul to create draft on wiki
- CVI - Gunnar suggesting a regular developer meeting for IFEX.
- Seats discussed in Capabilities Project - Capabilities Project - Seating Capabilities
- AOSP doing survey
Meeting notes 2024-10-17
- European data Act - Initial COVESA meeting held, Volvo Cars(M Feuer, Sonya to prepare charter with help of Volvo Cars colleagues)
- Monthly Asia Meeting (23rd, 8.00 CEST)
- Contribution process
- Winter time coming up, all meetings normally defined in european timezone.
Meeting notes 2024-10-10
- Stephen: Where to put diagrams
- AMM: Wrapup
- European data Act (Volvo - Wireless Car)
- API Standardization
- Will be reviewed at next TST
- Erik: Think it would be good to be more specific on whats to be done in the short term - actual deliverables.
- Capabilities
- Stephen: JasPar has a workgroup related to vehicle API. Might be one way to involve the Japanese OEMs
Meeting notes 2024-10-02 Cancelled!
Meeting notes 2024-09-19
- AMM/Workshop Agenda
- No DEG meeting next week due to AMM
- Erik is preparing "DEG updates" slides for AMM
- DEG/VSS Asia meeting next week
- Practically impossible to participate from Michigan
- Paul to contact them
Meeting notes 2024-09-05
Meeting notes 2024-08-22
- Workshop Tuesday, Sept 24
- Proposed Agenda Topics
- Top down requirements for scaling VSS to adjacent domains
- VSS role in Data-Centric Architectures
- Standardization
- API Design with VSS
- Enabling and Realizing Cross Cutting Use Cases
Meeting notes 2024-08-08
- Erik on vacation rest of month
- Workshop Tuesday
- Erik: Heard that NXP will be the venue
- Proposed AMM VSS Topics (for the AMM 202409 Technical Track Planning "Data Expert Group - VSS" sessions)
- VSS - What is new in VSS 5.0
- In this session we will present what is new in VSS tools 5.0 and discuss how the changes in vss-tools may affect you.
- Requirement Management for the COVESA VSS Project
- At the moment we do not have any formal requirements for the VSS syntax, catalog and tooling.
We also do not know what requirements and expectations downstream projects as well as COVESA members have on the VSS project.
In this session we propose a methodology for how to collect and manage VSS requirements.
Meeting notes 2024-08-01
- Workshop Tuesday
- DEG-related topics (2-3 hour, morning)
- VSS Roadmap (Daniel points, collect requirements)
- CVI-roadmap/relationship, playground relationship
- What work products would be useful
- What is needed for adoption
- AI influence - how will it affect VSS/CVI/Architecture - interfaces
- Could be used to identify usecases we need to cover within COVESA
- GM/Ford input - how do they want to influence/contribute to the work, what do you expect from COVESA
- API workshop (2.5 hour, afternoon)
- AP: Create agenda until next week
- NXP has venue for 40 person
- Bosch has space
- To be decided before next meeting
- Paul to figure out and decide on where
- AMM Planning
- AP: Erik and Adnan to propose content for VSS/DEG slots
- May be replaced with other sessions
Meeting notes 2024-07-25
- Topics for the workshop day before the AMM
- Catch 22
- No-one will come if we do not have interesting topics
- But no reason to have a workshop on interesting topics if no-one will come
- Erik: Try to have an agenda (or decide to cancel by August 8th?)
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- Bring up the discussion on the CVI meeting (Erik & Paul)
- Bring up in VSS meeting (Erik)
- Erik to propose rough agenda for next meeting
- 9.00 - 16.00 (1 hour lunch), or 10.00 -17.00
- Location not decided yet, not at AMM site (Possibly The 5th Novi)
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2024-07-18
- VSS Japan-friendly timeslot (15.00 24th July JST, 8.00 24th CEST, 23.00 23rd Pacific)
- Digitial.Auto PR access (review by TST 29th)
- Data Arch (Stephen)
- PR in Playground - working on example
- Would like to look at commercial vehicle guidelines
- BMW continuing with knowledge layer connector
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- Automotive API with AUTOSAR
- Ulf and Steve attended meeting. A doc will be sent to VISS and VSS for review at some point
- Hugo doc theme Learn deprecated. ReLearn or Hextra are suggested as path forward. https://themes.gohugo.io/
- Projects should update as they can
- Commercial Vehicle EG approved.
- Comments in charter should be addressed and cleaned up.
- AOSP and VSS
- Insurance elements proposed for VSS
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2024-07-04 CANCELLED!
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2024-06-27
- Paul: Daniel Alvarez and Dough/Cariad met and they seem to be aligned
- API Standardization Charter
- Proposed to work as part of CVi meeting
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2024-06-13
- Cariad (VW) interest
- They have interest in VSS, Onthology
- Paul: Do you have any thoughts on best way to interact with them. Will make them come to meeting.
- Erik: I see two options, reserve 30 minutes here for an open discussion, or start in smaller round (Paul, Adnan, Erik,...) and then have a common discussion afterwards
- Stephen: Data arch could be interesting
- Repository governance
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2024-05-30
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2024-05-23
- Regular checkins between HIM/Commercial Vehicle Information Specifications
- Common Vehicle Interfaces
- Naming
- Avoid similar names/acronyms if possible
- Central Data Service Playground
- BMW close to knowledge layer contribution
- Insurance use cases
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2024-05-16
- Presentation of Open1722 Project Charter (Nayak Naresh)
- Bosch wants to open source and COVESA is a possible host
- OSS Implementation of IEEE 1722 - Audio Video Transport Protocol
- Existing implementation at https://github.com/Avnu/libavtp (BSD-3) (not active)

- Nayak: We will open source the stack, mapping is then on top.
- Discussion
- Important in charter to state expectations, for example that there will be maintenanc for X years, no abrupt exit, report to very AMM
- Paul: Create 1 paper charter, let the DEG review, incubating project to move this forward
- Paul: Will start thread (AP)
- AMM Day Before technical session
- AMM Sept 25th-26th , Suburban showcase, Novi (outside Detroit), Michigan, USA
- Technical workshop day before Sept 24th - looking for topics/agenda - anyone can attend
- AP: Paul to create wiki page to add ideas/sessions
- VSSo topic
- "Semantic modelling, AKM, Alvarez-proposal below, ..."
- Paul: How to bring it forward? Will reach out to people making presentations
- Stephen; labeling like incubation could help
- Erik: Would be great to have more volunteer pillar leads, like a CVI DEG pillar lead.
- "GraphQL as VSS Language"

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2024-05-02
- Repo process/framework
- Info:
- Ulf: Ford+Volvo Group + Scania + Great Dane to provide project proposal soon using HIM, Github repo will be needed
- Future DEG/VSS Workshop (F2F or Remote)
- Discussion - do we see any import topics that better shall be discussed in Workshop
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2024-04-11
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2024-04-04
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2024-03-28
- VISS
- AMM
- Folder with template and for upload https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yaf1-wp4_1kaXAUDwNheY8AI53Wmyn8W?usp=sharing
- Erik/Adnan/Stephen to prepare draft DEG update (Wed 09.00) slide until next week
- To be reviewed in meeting next week
- Adnan might miss wrap-up Thursday
- Wrap-up to be used to collect findings and action points going forward.
- Paul: Make sure you have your presentation is ready and that the agenda/title/bio/ for your session is OK
- Federate Organization -(focusing on European public funded project) - Paul was involved in a discussion
- Rolling 3 year projects
- Adnan: More calls will come from EU, next in line is middleware
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2024-03-21
- Data Expert Group Working Session - Status Update
- How do we want to handle it
- Ford/Blackberry presentations
1. What has been done since last AMM
2. What is the focus/being done at this AMM
3. What is the focus until next AMM
- Agenda
- Intro: 5 minutes (Erik)
- Erik Jaegervall : VSS+methods, VISS, ... (10 min)
- Stephen Lawrence : Architecture, Playground (10 min)
- Adnan Bekan : Vehicle API, AUTOSAR, CVI (10 min)
- Questions & Discussions: 10 min
- Pillars and leads - need for reorg? To be continued to be discussed at wrap up at end of AMM
- Label: Shall it be "working session" or something else ("technical presentation"?)
- Material to be ready at latest Thursday before AMM for review
- AP: Paul to create google drive folder
- Data Expert Group Review and Wrap-Up
- VSS session wednesday (Pierre Pierre) possibly to be moved to Thursday morning (replacing the 9.00 open source session), AP: Paul to check with PP
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2024-03-07
- Decision to cancel meeting March 14th due to collision with RemotiveLabs spotlight
- Walkthrough of https://github.com/orgs/COVESA/projects/1
- Decision: Make project public (all has read access), if possible make Stephen/Adnan/Erik admin, give regular DEG participans write access
- AP: Paul to make it public
- Also https://github.com/COVESA/data-expert-group where have issues
- Make them public, review who has write/admin access
- Paul: What gets into a DEG repo apart from issue
- Stephen: Could be diagrams
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2024-02-29
- Central Data Service Playground now very close to minimum viable product
- Operational: As we spin up things like online documentation makes sense to both leverage existing experience with say VSS and to do it in a consistent way with what exists to ease overall maintenance, e.g. similar operational patterns.
- Any existing artifacts we can leverage?
- Tips, e.g. CI?
- Review: Will be increasingly asking people to try, review and give feedback.
- Wider eco-system: Will be considering examples and connection of "lego" to other parts of Covesa eco-system.
- https://github.com/COVESA/cdsp
- Discuss Covesa approach to images in Docker Hub
- Need to understand what is required to upstream and maintain images of Covesa tech in Docker Hub
- Any group experience we can leverage?
- Something related to VISS project transfer from W3C?
- Bosch open source pages mentions VSS - https://opensource.bosch.com/
- ChargeX
- How to "refactor" meetings
- Not many subject or participants lately
- Change to bi-weekly or on need basis (cancel if no agenda)?
- Paul: Board wants to see the big picture, that is the topic of this meeting
- Erik: Please propose topics for future DEG meetings
- Erik: Possibly revive the backlog at https://github.com/orgs/COVESA/projects/1
- AMM
- DEG Update -message, discussion topics,
- Proposal from Carina
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2024-02-15
- VISS governance
- If we want to handle VISS as a "standard", do we need a stricter process for merging changes and releasing new versions (compared to for example VSS)? Like formal review period, formal vote in TST?
- AMM Agenda
- AMM Agenda - proposal from Carin
- With regards to planning for AMM agenda there was one idea / wish I had on the agenda that I'd like to run by the three of you... Many of the VSS sessions at AMMs are (and should be!) related to quite nitty gritty development by the working group. However; at the session I've been I've heard the repeated frustration from developers, mostly at OEMs, for how to match signals from proprietary ones to VSS in an efficient way. I've brought up the idea with our developers that it would be interesting with a brainstorming session at AMM Gothenburg or co-problem ideation for generating different potential solution paths for how to work efficiently /methodology / tooling /AI tests etc. The feedback from RemotiveLabs engineers was "we'd like to participate in such a sessions (we have ideas and even tickets for this internally ), but currently we are not equipped /prepared to lead such a session". For your information, we are planning to join the meeting in Gothenburg with 4-5 people (2-3 of which engineers i.e. you don't have to put up with only me and Emil this time hahah )... so I guess what I'm trying to do is propose to you guys if you like the idea that COVESA VSS chairs sets up a slot for this? (i.e. RemotiveLabs not involved more than anyone else who joins). Then anyone can take 5 minutes to explain an idea / proposals but to be a session where experiences and ideas are shared to connect further. Does this make sense? I think it would complement the other types of VSS sessions.
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- Catena-X - shall we approach them? Do we want to collaborate, and if so how.
- Discussion January 2024?
- TODO: Identify possible alternatives from technical/organizational perspective
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2024-02-08
- Introduction
- AMM
- Stellantis Deep Dive
- Feb 14th, ask paul if you want to join
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- AMM
- COVESA Website update in progress
- IEEE sensing group
- Playground
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2024-01-25
- VISS and API error codes - idea to have COVESA proposal/template
- AMM
- COVESA meeting with KTM
- VSS branch discussion - https://github.com/COVESA/vehicle_signal_specification/issues/704
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