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Before we start…

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• We will start the webinar shortly.

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• This webinar will be recorded and shared via social media, our email newsletter and archived on the ODI website.

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Thank you!

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Host

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• Jesse Wright, Solid Lead, the ODI

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Updates

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• Louise Burke, Chief Executive Officer, the ODI

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• elf Pavlik, Chair, Solid Community Group

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• Jeff Zucker, Solid Practitioners group

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• Aaron Coburn, Linked Web Storage Working Group

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Today’s Speakers

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• Jackson Morgan, SetMeld

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• Niko Bonnieure, NextGraph

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ODI Update

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• Funding

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• Advisory Committee

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• Operations Advisory

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• Engagement

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• Events

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ODI Updates: Funding

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• $3M USD is very close to being finalised with google.org as part of their Scientific Progress fund.
• Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google and operates independently from the core organisation.
• We are looking to have this funding for core work on Solid matched by other philanthropic donors.
• We are also seeking funding to support specific applications of Solid, particularly social good applications.
• If you are aware of appropriate funders contact solid@theodi.org.

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ODI Updates: Funding

We plan to use this budget to (AC to advise):

• Have staff to support Solid including:

• Community Manager
• Engineering Staff
• Provide stimulus funding for certain applications of Solid, through a defined allocation process TBA
• Organise events to promote Solid including Tournaments/Hackathons
• Promote and advocate Solid through advocacy, and communication materials
• Pay for infrastructure (server hosting, website hosting, etc.)

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ODI Updates: Advisory Committee

• Lead of the Solid Project: Sir TimBL
• ODI Representative: Louise Burke (interim)
• Linked Web Storage Chair: Laurens Debackre
• Community Group Chair: elf Pavlik
• Practitioners Group Chair: Jeff Zucker
• Civil Society Organisation: Viivi Lähteenoja
• Commercial Sector: John Bruce
• Government – Citizen Data: Wilfred Pinfold
• Inclusion Advisor: Doris Li
• Open Source: Jackson Morgan
• Research Sector: David Hyland-Wood
• Financial Sustainability: Kenneth Smith
• Server Implementers:
• Ben Peachey
• Frederick Gibson
• Social Good:
• Hayoun Noh
• Sameer Gahlot
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ODI Updates: Operations Advisory

• Members
• Rui Zhao
• Alain Bourgeois
• Theo Bowden
• Current topics
• Server Infrastructure
1. Maintenance & upgrade required for solidcommunity.net
2. New servers to stand up
• Upcoming topics for discussion
• Maintenance priorities (ODI proposed)
• SolidOS refresh - external grant also in pipeline
• Shape and vocab infrastructure
• Development priorities (ODI proposed)
• Discovery and launch page for Solid applications
• Solid app generator
• Propose other topics at
• https://github.com/solid/roadmap
• https://github.com/solid/research-topics

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ODI Updates: Engagement

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We are working to make Solid visible to, and collaborate with:

• Dataspace Communities (including Gaia-X, EDSA, IDSA)
• Digital Credentials Communities including:
• Regulatory (UK Digital Verification Scheme, EU eIDAS)
• Organisational (Linux Decentralised Identity Foundation, Ayra, London Stock Exchange)
• Standards Groups
• DNS Registrars
• Decentralised storage and networking software and protocol developers

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ODI Updates: Upcoming Events (not ODI Organised)

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• Global Digital Collaboration, July 1 - 2:
• https://openwallet.foundation/2025/03/24/save-the-date-global-digital-collaboration-july-1-2-2025-in-geneva-switzerland/
• Fedicon, August 1 - 2:
• https://fedicon.ca
• MyData Conference, September 24 - 26:
• https://conference.mydata.org
• Solid Symposium, date TBD April-May 2026

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LWS Working Group Updates: Aaron Coburn

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• Use Cases and Requirements document

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• Editors named, beginning work on Core Protocol

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• Principal areas of work, at present
• Data identifiers
• Authentication
• Authorization

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• WG Meetings
• Weekly on Mondays at 10am ET

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• Homepage: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/

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Practitioners Group update: Jeff Zucker

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• A hub for people putting Solid into practice in the real world

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• Catlog of Solid Resources https://catalog.solidproject.org/

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• Apps : activity pods, Mandat, PASS, emissions monitoring
• Verticals : transportation, social services, healthcare
• Tech topics: search, indexing, shapes,
• Fostering adoption, contributing to ODI roadmap

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• Chat room, mailing list, video repo, online meetups
• More info : https://github.com/solid-contrib/practitioners

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Solid Community Group Updates: elf Pavlik

https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/solid/

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Principles

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• The mission of the Solid CG is to provide a home for incubation of proposals related to Solid.
• The CG is not a standards group. It is not the CG's role to determine "what is suitable for Solid."
• The fact that the Solid CG provides a home for incubation does not mean that the CG endorses any particular proposal, or guarantees that any particular proposal will be subsequently adopted by another group.
• The Solid CG is an inclusive forum where diversity ideas are shared and debated respectfully (consistent with codes of conduct).
• Early feedback on proposals should focus on clarifications. Statements of opposition should be reserved for later stages of incubation.

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Solid Community Group Updates: elf Pavlik

https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/solid/

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Framework for proposals (WIP)

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• New suggestion - simple to be inclusive
• Requirements - from a common use cases repository
• Proposal - test suite encouraged
• Evaluation - a comparison using common requirements
• Traction - implementation and adoption signals

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Strategy

• Coordinating with other Community Groups.
• Providing high-quality reports to ongoing and future Working Groups.

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