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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