Meeting Notes - 16 Nov 2018

https://hackmd.io/mpaocsIZSbSBO_31iIbEdg#

Attendees

• Chris Holdgraf

• Leah Wasser

• Max Joseph

• Jenny Palomino

Agenda Items

• GRA spring 2019 hire!

  • identify a few packages that would be willing to be the first to work on this; get some package maintainers on board

  • collect some data on state of Python for scientists

  • draft of review process

• Inviting others to join (Matt Perry? GeoPandas - Joris or James or both)

  • having a more final version of the scope document would be helpful for this

  • have a meeting with rOpenSci and adopt their structure, so we can present this formally to interested parties

  • we can start with that and then reach out to people to find editors and package reviewers

    • We know rOpenSci has an onboarding process – and we will need to identify editors

    • GRA Task: get him to work on the onboarding process as derive from Ropensci

• Everyone should review the relevant documentation from rOpenSci and then we should have a meeting with Karthik and Carl

  • Relevant docs from rOpenSci:

    • Repository that contains the package review etc. (see issues) https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding

    • Repository that contains the information on how to package libraries, review, edit, etc.: https://github.com/ropensci/dev_guide

  • Potentially ask them to serve on a advisory board

• Scoping out the code review for the spring that our gra will work on and what the paper will look like generally (to ensure we collect the right data)

• Brainstorm funding opportunities

  • Kek 1 pager (I don’t have high hopes for it but it’s worth formalizing our ideas to use for other opportunities)

  • Sloan, more, mozilla, others??

  • Budget should include some funded leadership

    • rOpenSci has 3 funded developers and a position that organizes and mobilizes the community

    • sustainability needs to be in mind early on

Next Steps

Fall 2018 Tasks

• [ ] Meeting with Carl and Karthik - suggest if they’d like to be on our board – Leah will email Carl and Karthik –

• [ ] Grab pyopenscience twitter ??

Spring 2019 Tasks

• [ ] GRA – could convert the R docs dev, testing, etc?? to jupyter books implementation