GoodGym

[nishaldesai]

Development Progress Tracker

This issue aims to provide public visibility of this new OpenActive implementation's development progress. The task list below tracks high level progress at-a-glance, while comments on this issue are used to provide updates in more detail.

Speculative

• OpenActive community engagement
• Scoping
• Scheduling

In Development

• Dataset site built - https://data.goodgym.org/
• Dataset site GitHub issues board created
• Open data feeds built
• Open data feeds pass OpenActive Validator
• Open data feeds pass OpenActive Test Suite

In Review

• OpenActive community feedback
• Deployed to production
• First integration live

Certified and Live

• Added to OpenActive Data Catalog

[nishaldesai]

Last known communication with the CTO at the time, June 2021:

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Status
There are two GoodGym open data feeds:

• an "old" feed: https://www.goodgym.org/api/happenings
• a "new" feed: https://www.goodgym.org/api/openactive/events

The reason for the new feed is that Patrick [then technical liaison] did some work to upgrade the Goodgym data feeds to be more conformant to the current OpenActive (OA) standards. It also has more data in it (the old feed did not include Community Missions, for example). He completed this work and shared with us directly the new feed URL.

There is also a booking endpoint, at http://www.goodgym.org/api/external_registrations, which is designed to work with the old feed to take direct bookings from third party applications.

Where we had got to
We (imin) and several other organisations in the OpenActive ecosystem have integrated with the old feed.

Patrick released the new feed, and we were in the process of testing it, when COVID hit. Everything paused at that point.

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It looks like https://www.goodgym.org/api/happenings still resolves, but https://www.goodgym.org/api/openactive/events does not fetch any data. However, https://www.goodgym.org/api/happenings does not provide a proper next URL and the validator catches lots of issues.

Conclusion: feed is not usable.

Suggested next steps:

• engage Goodgym to find out the status of https://www.goodgym.org/api/happenings and if it can easily be reinstated.
• once live, check against the validator to confirm usability