Technical Advisory Council Meeting

March 5, 2025

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Code of Conduct

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“Be excellent to each other.”

tac.openwallet.foundation/governance/code-of-conduct/

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NOTE: This meeting is being recorded

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TAC Voting Members

Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Review action items from last meeting
3. SIG Quarterly Update: Architecture SIG (David Alexander, co-chair)
4. Special Interest Groups
5. Open discussion and next steps
1. TAC Website Improve the UX

Announcements

• See the OpenWallet Foundation calendar for a list of upcoming meetings
• Please submit any code proposals using the process defined at https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/project-proposals. We will review proposals in the order submitted at a TAC meeting. If you know of any potential projects that might be of interest to the OpenWallet Foundation, please let a staff member know so that they can follow up
• OWF has a newsletter! Sign up here.
• OWF news? community-architects@openwallet.foundation
• OWF Community Events Calendar

Action Items from Last Meeting

• Archive CredHub and SD-JWT .NET (in progress)
• Prepare infrastructure for VCX (complete)
• Update TAC website for 2025 schedules (complete)
• LFX Insights: Apply fixes for lab projects: in progress w/ LF Legal
• Board discussion re: TAC composition
• Also close the SD-JWT .NET Annual Review PR. The project will be archived (completed)

SIG Quarterly Update: Architecture SIG

OWF Architecture SIG update - David Alexander

Discussion: Special Interest Groups

• Discussion: The current state of SIGs, challenges faced by existing SIGs, are SIGs fit for purpose @ OWF
• SIGs @ TAC Website: https://tac.openwallet.foundation/SIGs/
• A special interest group (SIG) under the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) is a group with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning, or technology related to the mission of the OpenWallet Foundation where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field.
• Active SIGs:
• Wallet Interoperability SIG
• Architecture SIG
• Inactive SIGs:
• Wallet & Agents Overview SIG
• Safe Wallet SIG

TAC Website - Improve the UX

1. How people contact the TAC
2. Introduce clear Call for Actions in the home page,
1. Propose a new project,
2. Propose a new SIG
3. (other)

Open Discussion and Next Steps

• TAC Recording/Transcript/Chat
• Next TAC Meeting Wednesday March 19, 2025

Action Items

1. Examine a SIG AMA event (Sean, SIG leaders)
2. Document historical SIG meeting attendance (Sean)
3. Suggest website UX and Calls to Action improvements
1. Add links/pointers to OWF and TAC websites for Project and SIG proposals

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