As promised, this newsletter is shorter than the last.
As we fly towards the end of the year, we wish the entire OpenWallet Foundation community a Happy New Years and look forward to a 2025 filled with more momentum for our community, our projects and the entire digital wallet space.
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Announcements:
OWF made a strong showing at Internet Identity Workshop this October. Get a fantastic recap from Sam and Stephen (video + deck slides) at the 20/11/2024 Wallet Interoperability SIG.
Recent Achievements:
The Credo team takes home the 2024 Identity Innovation Award from IDNext! Find out more here.
Here is a picture of Timo Glastra from the Credo team showing the award.
OpenWallet Forum
The very first meeting of the OpenWallet Forum will be on Friday December 6, 2024!
Technical Advisory Council
The Technical Advisory Council for the OpenWallet Foundation provides guidance and technical leadership to OWF projects and community. The TAC meets every two weeks for one hour.
Recent TAC Meetings
Due to the holidays, we had one TAC meeting in the month of November.
13 November TAC Meeting
Highlights include:
- Wallets and Agents Overview SIG shared their quarterly update
- Identity Credential Team presented their Annual Review that included some great accomplishments over the last year and that team’s goals for 2025
- TAC Chair Tracy Kuhrt shared the TAC Accomplishments for 2024
TAC Schedule
The last TAC Call for 2024 is Weds 11 December.
The first TAC of 2025 is scheduled for 8 January.
About the TAC
- OWF TAC Website (governance, documentation)
- Join the TAC Calls
- TAC Call Agendas
- Join the TAC Mailing List
OWF Project Updates:
Credo
Timo from the Credo team joined the Wallet Interoperability SIG this week and did a fantastic overview of Credo’s accomplishments this year (in advance of their annual review for the TAC). You can watch the video here.
The Credo community meeting takes place bi-weekly on Thursday, 6AM Pacific Time on Zoom. Check out the Credo GitHub, Docs and Extensions or join the #Credo community on Discord.
Solid Data Wallet
Solid Data Wallet, recently contributed by Inrupt, has a hackathon coming up. Find out more here.
Check out the Solid Data Wallet GitHub, and #solid-data-wallet community on Discord.
Special Interest Group (SIG) Updates:
Architecture SIG
The Architecture SIG would like to welcome David Alexander as Co-Chair of the SIG! We really appreciate David’s contribution of time and effort and look forward to this SIG’s work moving forward.
The Architecture SIG meets weekly on Mondays from 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific, 11:30 AM – noon US/Eastern, 17:30 – 18:00 CET
You can join the call on the LFX platform
Find out more about the Architecture SIG
Safe Wallet SIG
The Safe Wallet SIG will be on holiday hiatus through the end of the year. We are looking for two contributors to step up as Co-Chairs of the SIG. The next Safe Wallet SIG meeting will be the week of January 6, 2025.
Wallet Interoperability SIG
The Wallet Interoperability SIG has launched! You can find out more, see previous meeting agenda/recordings and join the weekly meetings at this link.
Articles / Training / Tutorials:
Solid Data Wallet
The Solid Data Wallet team recently held a webinar, “Beyond Transactions: The Next Generation of Digital Wallets”. Check out the recording.
What’s Next/Coming Soon:
We might send out an end of year newsletter in the next 3 weeks. Stay tuned.
Get Involved!
- Join a meeting
- Take a look at the code: OWF Projects, OWF Labs
- Check out the OWF YouTube channel (don’t forget to subscribe!)
- Chat on Discord
