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tags: scverse, governance, meeting
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# 2022-08-09: Governance meeting

*Attendees:*

## Agenda

* Updates from everyone ("what I did over my summer break")
* Isaac
* Sparse (+ sparse on disk)
* [Scientific Python](https://scientific-python.org)
* Danila
* chame (ATAC)
* Shadow interfaces (out-of-memory AnnData / MuData)
* File viewer CLI
* New serialisation
* Plan the discussion on .X as a layer and idempotent scanpy
* Q: Quarto
* Epigenomics + open2c
* Numfocus status?!?
* scverse preprint
* scverse community team update
* Setting up meeting
* scog hackathon
* Who helps
* Plan?
* Whom to invite or open invites? Fixed number of places?
* Name for "cookietemple fork" for scverse templates?
* Lukas: Some stem cell name? A stem cell in space?
* Isaac: "zygote", but not sure it's worth naming. Current name is very descriptive.

## Notes

### Updates

* Gregor
* Template
* Just needs sync
* Isaac: MDAnalysis
* AnnData + awkward array
* Lukas
* Working on best practices mostly
* GSK: wants more scaling + dask
* Giovanni:
* Squidpy notebook from vizgen
* SpatialData
* Implementation and specs
* Proposals for OME-NGFF
* 22nd -> 10th on vacation
* Isaac
* HCA: 75% using Python, spatial dimension is getting momentum
* scipy: sparse data in Python – to be followed up; incl. on-disk sparse access (https://github.com/Graphegon/pygraphblas)
* scientific Python (https://scientific-python.org/)
* Danila
* Timeline for chromatin accesiblity collaboration
* Groups interested
* Julio Rodriguez
* Stein Aerts
* Danila will get back on this in september
* Out of core access
* `MuDataShadow`
* Own package for now
* Possibly can give use some HIWI hours
* `parquet` based anndata/ mudata
* Plus queries
* Numfocus
* Next deadline oct 15th – Isaac will follow up
* Preprint
* Authorship? Isaac will ask Fabian
* Should we delay for authorship?
* Hackathon
* Oktoberfest nearby look at hotel rates
* Hotels are expensive – look