Meeting Notes 17 May 2021

tags: Meeting

Notes

1. softare review sync

• devicely
  • ask on twitter about reviewers
  • OW: could act as reviewer, worked on related tool
• pymedphys
  • LW: pymedphys – actually a set of tools - similar to astropy
• some issues we should close - close all of the old presumbissions

2. editorial board

• Lets start with Ivan, David and Leah
• We might consider domain "buckets"
• ROpenSci + JOSS like model
• who do we want, how long do they serve
• we have onboarded them

Action Items

• LW: close older issues w/invitation to submit
• LW: will get back to simon about PyMedPhys
• DN: add suggestion to editor guide to update initial comment w/reviewers etc. so it's right at top of issue
• DN: post on twitter asking for reviewrs for devicely
• DN: figure out if there's overlap for phylup
• DN: follow up w/LW + IO about mentored sprints at SciPy

SciPy Mentored Sprints (David) - Tania Allard

• they are doing these springs at pycon
  • https://mentored-sprints.netlify.app/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUHyP8ki_Q
• could we use pyopensci maintainers to participate in the mentored sprints?
  • Have them bring friends who can contribute to the sprints?
  • maintainers would need to identify things to fix
  • Then they would come to the sprint
  • Do they have to register for scipy?
  • sprints are run in discord
  • git help desk
  • maintainers volunteer time to
    • find issues ahead of time
    • work with people who want to submit PRs
    • ask them to do things that aren't code contributions like run through a tutorial and raise issues, etc.
  • Open science labs - they do hae training materials already in (spanish?)

Challenges with mentored sprints

• getting envt setup
• knowing what issue to work on

Outcomes

we will go to scipy and SPY

ducky app for video chat?!