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title: Using Qri Call - 10/07/2019

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Using Qri Call - 10/07/2019
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Attendees: (add your name!)
* @rico
* @b5
* @chriswhong
* @ramfox
* @dustmop
* @jqnatividad
* YOU


**AGENDA**
* Intros: Why did you agree to beta test Qri, and what are you hoping Qri does for you?
* News & Updates
* Peer Corner: Issues, Ideas & Bugs
* Discussion: How can Qri Help?

**News & Updates:**

- Beta testing Qri
- Sprint S Review: https://github.com/orgs/qri-io/projects/10
- Sprint S Review: https://github.com/orgs/qri-io/projects/11


**Peer Corner: Issues, Ideas, bugs?**

Let's gather some early feedback:
* Have you downloaded Qri yet? 
* Have you tried to generate and/or publish a dataset?

**Discussion / How can Qri help?**
* X
* X
* X


**Resources**

* Project Template (https://github.com/qri-io/community/blob/master/using_qri/dataset_project_template.md)
* Docs (https://qri.io/docs)
* Tutorials & Videos (https://qri.io/docs/tutorials/)
* Qri Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/ApGYqb) for Q&A and linking up with other qri peers and devs (asynch)
* Qri Dev Calls (bi-weekly): “like live RFCs”


We’ll be publishing notes from the calls onto the Qri Community github repo (https://github.com/qri-io/community)

We want outputs of these conversations to take the form of actionable github issues.

Download Qri, test drive it, and share your impressions (nothing is too big nor too small) & file issues on our github

## Call Notes

* Emily Cain: Open Data science bootstrap grad, interested in
* Joel Natividad: Works on the Datopian project, one of the maintiners at
* Rico: Has anyone successfully downloaded the Qri Desktop app?
    * Emily: Yes, Joel: no, Rob: Yes
* Rico: Platform?
    * Joel: Mac & Linux, Emily: Mac
* Rico: What do you want to do with Qri?
    * Emily: For now I just want to explore & see what else is up there, maybe contribute to some datasets
* Joel: I've been on a long search for doing version contr ol with data. It's a nontrivial problem. I've had a number of false-starts 
    * CKAN handles metadata well, scales well even with a 
* Chris: To summarize Joel: Qri's able to version the data itself.
* Rico: We're working on three things:
    * Dataset Diffing
    * Transform Scripts
    * Social features 
* Rob: Now that FSI is cleaner I've been scripting around Qri, not Within Qri. It's nice to use languages & tools that are more familiar with others. I'm all about being able to script around instead of within Qri
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Joel: A "why you want this" pitch for Qri

## Issues To file:
