# Regular aeon Developer Meeting (early) - Aug 25, 2023
###### tags: `aeon-regular-dev-meeting`
#### Aug 25, 2023 @ 12:00PM UTC
#### Previous meeting: https://hackmd.io/@aeon-toolkit/BkBQnt3_h
Present: MM AF
### Topics
- A lot of people on holiday or taking breaks, so no meetings previous weeks. People still off at some points in September. Writing down updates here for record keeping purposes.
- [MM] September London meetup
- Meetup schedules for September 5th, room available from from 9am-5pm
- Enough room for 8 people and Teams enabled with a large screen
- MM to contact UCL for more details
- Grant can reimburse for travel and food in most cases
- Potential topics:
- Governance structure
- plan for pyData talks
- time line for numFOCUS application
- plan for conference tutorials
- plan for forecasting module enhancements and grant involvement in forecasting (deep learning intern)
- plan for teaching module based on aeon
- Deprecation policy: when to introduce and what it is
- New similarity search module
- New condensing/averaging time series module
- Anomaly detection and the annotation module
- Should create a roadmap for the project? Does not need to be massively formal
- [MM] aeon distances PyData talk
- Talk was accepted, to be given by Tony and Chris on Saturday 16th September
- https://amsterdam.pydata.org/program/#2023-09-16
- [AF] Deep learning clustering
- AF to contact Strasburg intern for updates and discussion
- We should implement some framework beforehand to reduce the complexity for implementing the algorithms
- [AF] Averaging module?
- Issue to be created for discussion. Has uses outside of clustering, so may be better in a different module
- Can discuss further with everyone at London meetup
### Needs decision
N/A
### Needs attention (reviews)
N/A
### Action items
1. AF to create issue on potential averaging module
2. MM to update and create discussion topics for London meetup
3. MM to look at #402
### Previous Action items
1. Create issue for new base class between BaseEstimator and machine learning base classes, needs a name!
- PR drafted and up for discussion https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon/pull/650
### Next meeting date
September 05, 2023
September 08, 2023 @ 12:00PM UTC (Regular dev meeting)