Last FoC meetup I showed the Open Canvas Interchange Format we're working at with the Open Canvas Working Group. We want to create a new spec to help (infinite) canvas apps enable interchanging their canvases with each other. More info can be found here https://canvasprotocol.org/ and this points to the latest version of the spec on github : https://spec.canvasprotocol.org/ .. and in case you want to help developing this: we meet every two weeks and here's the link to our next meetup upcoming tuesday : https://lu.ma/iv4q484x

That was a great talk and very inspiring. The tight linking of apps and their canvas representation puts me off investing in layout algorithms because they seem so complex and limited in scope to the application they were develop for, which often does not justify the cost of developing them. My mind has been racing since about meta-layout algorithms that layout any diagram by any tool which makes more economic sense to me. Now I wonder if you can take an ocwg diagram, convert to graphviz, let graphviz do the layout and then export out again 🤔