We had a great in-person meeting in Colorado Springs last week. Here are some of the highlights for those of you didn't get a chance to attend.

Working Groups

The most important thing we discussed was setting up working groups (ideally with at least three different companies) to focus on tagging models for specific verticals. The verticals included:

• boiler plants
• unitary equip (fan coils, heat pumps, etc)
• lighting
• zones/spaces/floors
• vertical transportation (elevators)
• parking garages
• data centers
• access control, security, cctv
• geothermal systems
• solar power
• solar hot water
• refrigeration systems
• electrical plug loads
• electric meter enhancements
• chiller plant enhancements
• AHU enhancements
• fume hoods

I have a list of email addresses for "volunteers" for most of these. Sometime this week I will send out an email for interested parties and see if we can spark some proposals. The goal for each working group is to develop a proposed set of docs and tag definitions. If you did not attend Haystack Connect and have a strong interest in any of these verticals, then please email me directly or post on here.

Docs/Website

I've taken a (not so new) action item to get the docs and website into a format usable by others on BitBucket. The website and docs have some dependencies on SkySpark internals, but I will rework things so that the docs can be used standalone with dependencies on only the Fantom open source runtime. I will try to get this done in next month or so.

Deprecated Tag

There was some discussion and ideas around how to formally deprecate tags and then alias the new definitions. Given that the tag documentation is itself just a machine readable files of tags, we can do that using a deprecated tag.

Beta Tag

Couple good ideas about how to formalize the state of proposals and tags that might have been suggested by just one person without a lot of domain expert input. So we talked about maybe adding something like a beta tag to the tags.

Alternate Downloads

Options to download the tag docs in different formats was discussed a bit. I think making the full set of source material on BitBucket will go a long way to solving this problem. But suggestions always welcome for different ways to access the docs/tag library.

I have sent out emails to all the working groups. If you signed up for a group and didn't get an email then its probably because your email was illegible and you don't have an account on this site I could use to look it up (which probably implies you aren't reading this then :).

Hello!

Is there a way I could participate or follow the progress with some of the groups above. Not sure if there is a topic I can follow or the discussion is being handle on a different way.

Thank you, Jose

I think at this point there is just one working group having a some offline discussions but will be posting that to the forum shortly too - so basically, anything active is being done this forum