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About
The Bridge Standards Working Group is a voluntary organization of businesses, nonprofits, and individuals which exists to create Recommendations. Recommendations are standards that define how bridge applications (such as robots, convention card editors, and tournament managers) interwork. BSWG Recommendations are non-binding; however they are generally complied with due to their high quality and because they guarantee the interconnectivity of applications and enable bridge services to be provided on a worldwide scale.
History
2020
- April - Kiat Huang starts talking about sets of standards and working on how to get an interntional group together to develop them. Ref: bridge-dev@groups.io post
- 1st Aug - onwards the BSWG master doc initialised and outline plan made
- 29th Sep - Christine Denny joins BSWG as co-organiser
- 5th Oct - first set of invites emailed out to NBOs, online platforms, developers, standards experts, enthusiasts
- 7th Oct - Invite to members of Bridge Winners
- 14th Oct - invite to members of bridge-dev@groups.io
- 2nd Nov - Membership reaches 70+
- 3rd Nov - twin kickoff meetings in the EU-APAC and US-EU timezones - both well attended
- 4th Nov Discord server and channels (forums), Google Groups (announce lists) spun up and active
- 12th Nov - “Bridge Standards Working Group Launched!” announcement to Bridge Winners