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title: ORSO Chairs meeting 22nd May 2025

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Present: Tom Arnold (TA), Brian Maranville (BBM), Sophie Ayscough (AS), Andrew Nelson (AN), Max Skoda (MS), Jos Cooper (JC), Stefan Kowarik (SK)

Apologies: 
Maciej Jankowski (MJ),Ben Humphreys (BH), Andrew McCluskey (AM)

# Agenda


## 1. Review previous minutes and assign a note taker

- [X] ACTION All define dicussion topics for AGM - email TA (by end Feb)
* only limited feedback, see discussion below... new deadline for draft session details is 26th March
- [ ] ACTION MS propose scope and dates for code camp
Not done... suggest discusion at AGM to define what this could be.
- [ ] ACTION TA follow up SLD database / mailing list
Will chase Tim Snow this week
- [x] ACTION MJ to arrange meeting with Christy & AM
* Propose a white paper to define best practice => topic for AGM.
- [x] ACTION MS Wrap up round-robin results & follow up with AN regarding suitability for X-ray sources.
* MS promises to do this by the end of next week!
- [x] ACTION TA to contact 3 suggested plenary speakers.
- [x] ACTION All to work up session ideas to full descriptions (same as action above) by 26rd March
- [x] ACTION TA to arrange a meeting of interested parties to discuss OSCARs Call.
Proposal submitted by MS
- [x] ACTION MS to write spiel for intro of survey
- [x] ACTION Everybody feedback to the survey questions from Max
Survey isnow live

## 2. AGM & ICNS

### Planning

See https://www.reflectometry.org/workshops/workshop_2025/ for detail

- ACTION TA Add discussion about how to contribute to agenda
- ACTION TA Add discussion about code camps

Parallel session leads - responsible for chairing the session and making the session work.
- Sample environment: SA
- Reference Library: MS
- Nested sampling: AN&BBM
- Reproducibility: TA (provisional)
- Orsopy: JC
- Open Data: Bridgat Murphy & Tom Hase

Each session should appoint a scribe to present at the closing session

## 3. OSCARS Call
MS shared submitted proposal by email

## 4. Issues Raised

Agenda items raised by MS:
1) look at the model language and see how we can utilise that better (have already spoken with RasCAL developers) - not sure who contributed most to the model language
=> this was discussed in a separate meeting and will be followed up in AGM and oscars project if successful.
2) Following feedback from the last AGM, could we have chat about how better to promote/publicise ORSO
=> to be added as an AGM discussion

## AOB
Date of the next meeting: 17th June 12:00 Europe

