# Regular aeon Developer Meeting (early) - May 03, 2024
###### tags: `aeon-regular-dev-meeting`
#### May 03, 2024 @ 12:00PM UTC
#### Previous meeting: https://hackmd.io/@aeon-toolkit/BJLKEgoAa
Present: MM TB CH AF AG SS
### Topics
- [MM] GSoC 2024
- 3 accepted proposals, Divya, Aadya and Gabriel
- "Community bonding period" until 27/05 when coding offically starts
- Mentor resources:
- https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/responsibilities#mentor_responsibilities
- https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfqPe6M2MpBCHpSrUW3Cd6AyjbCrgttAoQ2SWumYej8/edit
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_eBuYxcyg
- Meet with Aadya after this to discuss project
- Set up meet and greet with everyone for next week
- [MM, TB] Grant short postdoc and intern
- 6 month post doc being advertised https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=2704824FP
- Internship at soton has been advertised, interviewing week starting 13th, not had applications through yet.
- [MM] Anomaly detection and new core dev
- Welcome to Sebastian Schmidl who has offically joined as a core developer since the last meeting
- Primarily works on anomaly detection
- Anomaly detection base class PR is currently up [#1343](https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon/pull/1343)
- [MM] ECML and KDD tutorials
- Accepted to talks at both ECML and KDD 2024
- Demo paper to ECML went over page limit due to a misreading of reference space allowance, can be easily recycled next year or at a different venue
- Have to decide a prefered day for KDD, disucss in Slack channel before deadline
- [MM] PyData London
- London proposal on classification rejected
- Eindhoven - May 13th, 2024
- [MM] Release v0.8.1
- Patch release to deal with some CI, documentaton issues and bugfixes.
- Can start deprecation for v0.9.0
(https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon/pull/1343)
- [MM, TB] Loading issues from timeseriesclassification.com
- Making tsc.com a fixed IP, some issue on how to do it, need to remove it as an addon but they wont tell me how
- Should create a backup anyway
- [TB] BaseSeriesTransformer conversion
- need to fix BaseSeriesEstimator first
- What do we do with axis in fit and with estimators?
- Do we return univariate series if passed univariate series?
- Do we revert axis to same as input if series-series?
- [TB] New forecasting module
- simplified forecasting module that extends BaseSeriesEstimator
### Needs decision
BaseSeriesEstimator points/questions
### Needs attention (reviews)
[#1343](https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon/pull/1343)
[#1476](https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon/pull/1476)
### Action items
Set up first meeting next week with GSoC contributors
Decide days for KDD tutorial
Discuss Eindhoven PyData next week
Chase up on TSC.com issues
### Previous Action items
- Chase tsc.com problem and raise an issue
- Discussed above
### Next meeting date
May 17, 2024