TAG Meeting 2018-09-05
Participants
- Greg Petras
- John Raub
- Tim Casey
- Audrey S
- Britto A
- Sherod K
- Jen Downey
- Ben Meyers
- Tarun Verma
- Michael Discenza
- Sayee S
- Eric J
Notes
1.API Standardization
Most commentary was on better documentation of best practices and use cases: be more proscriptive and provide guidance, particularly on the most common use cases.
Other (and related) ideas include:
- Possibly hold SEAs feet to the fire, either via some "certification" or via an official review program of some kind by Ed-Fi (this is informally happening today already, but could be formalized)
- List of common use cases: to StudentSchoolAssociation, Attendance
- List of states that have operationalized various domains
Action: Alliance (Sayee) to develop a prototype use case focused on enrollment/StudentSchoolAssociation and possibly Attendance, plus attempt to list who has operationalized these.
2. API Change and Options for the new finance model
All who offered explicit support supported version 2 - an entire new domain model. [That direction/advice was communicated back to the FWG subsequently.]
- Routing system for various APIs that includes version number
- Can't force changes into the core model; possibly a core data model that is slower moving
- Start to break the architecture apart into a less monolithic approach
- Benefit to focus changes on a domain-by-domain basis
3. Summit meeting topics
Topics suggested (some were items from previous meetings)
- Support for API provisioning tooling at scale (authorization assignment)
- "Operational contexts" and the question of enumeration sets (e.g. a state and a local set)
- SEA adoption vs one-off district adoption, and how to handle that in a scalable way
- Upgrade strategy
- Concept of student profile transfer between districts (submitted after meeting via email)
Action: Eric to ensure that these issues can be captured in the GAT community survey (done - the survey will be a generic list of pain points and not a specific pre-defined list)