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Agenda
- Update on the ODI stewardship of Solid – Louise Burke & Jesse Wright
- Highlights of progress made in the Solid Community
- Highlights of work in the Solid Practitioners group - including the Solid Catalog
- Updates on progress in the Linked Web Storage Working Group
- Presentation
- Presentation
Speakers
Jackson Morgan started working in the Solid Ecosystem in 2018, and was an early employee at Inrupt. He's worked on a number of open source Solid projects including the main auth library, Community Solid Server, and his current main open source project, LDO (https://ldo.js.org). He also runs the consulting company O.team (https://o.team) which provides services for organizations that want to use Solid.
Louise Burke is the ODI’s Chief Executive Officer and leads the team to deliver on the organisation’s mission and vision. Having joined the ODI in 2012 Louise previously held roles as chief finance officer and chief operating officer. She has expertise in data governance, data literacy, data institutions, data assurance and innovation, as well as a professional background in accountancy and finance. She was named one of the 100 Top Influencers across the UK’s open technology communities in 2021.
With a career that has involved building many businesses from the ground-up, and expertise in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and scaling, Louise has commercial acumen along with a commitment to deliver on the ODI’s vision.
As an accountancy professional, she has lectured in the UK and overseas for the ACCA and CIMA and has authored academic books, study systems and business articles.
Jesse Wright is a passionate advocate for a Web that empowers individuals by giving them control over their own data. With a commitment to open-source and community-driven technology, Jesse has contributed significantly to the development and deployment of Solid.Jesse’s work on Solid spans several years, encompassing both volunteer and professional contributions to the project. He has developed and maintained a variety of libraries essential to the Semantic Web and Solid ecosystems, including eye-js, shaclcjs, N3.js, LDflex, and Comunica. Professionally, Jesse’s industry experience includes deploying Solid Pods for Indigenous health use cases at the Software Innovation Institute, as well as building foundational Solid infrastructure at Inrupt.As an academic, Jesse is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford’s EWADA group, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. His research revolves around designing architectures that enable decentralized agents to autonomously negotiate and make decisions, thereby establishing a logical framework for Solid. Through his academic work, Jesse has contributed to numerous W3C standards.
Definitions
Solid Practitioners Group (PG)
The Solid Practitioners Group (PG) was launched in 2023 as a hub for those putting the Solid vision into practice as consists of people actively working on projects aimed at specific real-world products using Solid. You can join the practitioners group here.
The Solid Community Group (CG) was launched in 2018 to incubate the Solid Specifications. With the Linked Web Storage Working Group (LWS) now taking on the responsibility of maturing the server specifications - the CG is working on topics around application interoperability. You can join the community group here.
Linked Web Storage Group (LWS)
The Linked Web Storage Working Group (LWS WG) was launched in 2024 to enable the development of web applications where data storage, entity authentication, access control, and application provider are all loosely coupled. This group will output official W3C Recommendations - with the same level of authority as specifications such as HTML, CSS and Verifiable Credentials.