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## Monday, October 13

### 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Breakout Session 1


Group A: Advancing specs for data types, codecs, extenions - Leader: @d-v-b
Group B: Improving sharding ease-of-use and performance - Leader: @markkitti

### 1 PM - 3 PM - Breakout Session 2 (Facilitating Implementations)

Group A: Conformance tests and performance benchmarks - Leader: @maxrjones (Boost B)
Group B: Virtual Zarr - Leader: @TomNicholas (Boost A)
Group C: Open work time: Loop Bar or hallway

### 3:30 PM - 5 PM - Breakout Session 3 (Building "extensions")

## Ideas
Rectilinear chunk grids (Davis, Lachy, Sean, Joe, Tina) (Loop bar)
[Fill Value](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/to-zarr-compute-false-gives-zeros-not-nans/5388/4) (Mark, Ryan, Even, Tom W., Wietze) (Loop bar)
Zarr implementations (conformance) mind-meld (Josh, Eric, Hugo, Mark, Alistair) (Boost B)
How do you spec-ify virtualizarr (John, Tom, Max, Mark, Nishadh, Mattia, Seba) (Boost A)


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