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title: 'Regular aeon Developer Meeting (early) - May 03, 2024'
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# 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