# Breakout group: Producing Analysis Ready Cloud Optimized (ARCO) datasets (focused on Pangeo-Forge along with ML datasets) @douglasrao and I are excited to lead a breakout group that will focus on producing ARCO datasets via [Pangeo-forge](https://pangeo-forge.org/). The main goals for this session will be to - introduce [pangeo-forge-recipes](https://pangeo-forge.readthedocs.io/) -- a Python library for building Pangeo Forge recipes -- and help folks understand how pangeo-forge-recipes relates to pangeo-forge cloud ([Pangeo-forge](https://pangeo-forge.org/)) - learn how use pangeo-forge-recipes to generate ARCO datasets - help folks to author and/or propose pangeo-forge recipes/feedstocks for datasets of interest. nothing here is set in stone. So, please if they are topics you would like to see covered during this breakout session, please feel free to share your ideas. **Duration**: Morning and afternoon sessions, people are welcome to join for either or both **Pre-requisites**: Experience using xarray. No developer experience required.