Slack / Discord / etc. messaging channel for AP2?

[tedpower]

Hello,

Is there a community message board where we can discuss AP2? Or is github discussions the best bet?

My company (Versa.org) works with merchants (like American Airlines) on generating electronic receipts. For example, we power this: https://ramp.com/integrations/american-airlines-advantage-business

We'd like to explore tying our receipt service in to AP2. We love the vision, and we'd like to support and help build out the merchant side of the network. One thing I was missing in the intro video is more tailored messaging. For example:

1. If you're an e-commerce merchant, here's what you can do / here's a value prop
2. If you're a payment service / wallet provider, here's what you can do / here's a value prop
3. If you're a LLM chat bot builder, her's what you can do / here's a value prop

etc.

Selfishly, I'm interested in 1. Most of the content seemed aimed at 2.

I understand we're still in V0.1 but it's not totally clear to me the separation of concerns — who is responsible for hosting the Merchant Agent and Merchant Payment Processor Agent? The merchant? If so it seems like the voice of the merchant needs more representation here.

I know it's evolving fast, but what is 'best practice' for a merchant today? E.g. what sort of MCP tooling / A2A / AP2 support would you like to see a bleeding-edge e-commerce tech team (e.g. the 'Home Depot' tech team) working on?

[arisylafeta]

I second a Discord/Slack channel for contributors.

[ricp]

Indeed, +1!

[skyfire-ammar]

+2

[conrado44]

same