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title: '2022-09-14: Community Governance meeting'
tags: [' governance', ' meeting', scverse, ' community']

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# 2022-09-14: Community Governance meeting

## Agenda

* Review of possible activities
* Review of governance models

## Notes

* Possible activites
    * Ecosystem packages
        * Mikaela – Pro review
        * Karin – Open review of packages
        * How do we add things?
            * Probably good to ask
    * Package listing
        * What do packages get out of it Advertisement
    * Forums
    * Online Workshops
        * Mikaela – Hard to maintain without enough packages
        * Isaac – Time commitment
        * Interest in attending
    * Hackthons
        * online vs in person
        * Difficulty with online:
            * Organizing teams
            * NF-core: team leads for a few things which people can join
            * Mikaela: Organizing by skill set
        * Karin: who are these for
            * Lukas: a mix
        * How goal oreinted?
            * nf-core hackathon tagged issues
        * include tasks for community packages
    * Office hours
        * What is the scope?
            * Users vs developers.
    * In person meet ups
    * Workshops in person (nf-core model)
        * Connected to hackathon
* Ranking
    * Documentation for packages (Mikaela)
    * Ecosystem package listing (Karin, Lukas)
    * Hackathon (Lukas, Mikaela)
    * Workshops (Karin)

* Follow up
    * Ecosystem website: Karin, Lukas
    * Hackathon: Mikaela
    * Documentation stuff: Mikaela

# 2022-08-10: Community Governance meeting 

*Attendees:*

## Agenda

* Intros (10 min)
* Community governance role (30 min)
* SCOG associated hackathon (10 min)

## Notes

* Intros
    * Davide – comp bio
    * Romain – did phd work on scvi at genentech
    * Karin – PhD student in Fabian's lab
    * Valentine – biotech startup
* Brief intro of scverse
* User side
    * Davide
        * How to introduce people
            * How to introduce more users
        * How to interface with users
        * Can we collect materials from the community
    * Romain
        * How to make things easier
            * Interop with R
        * Running the code is not a barrier
    * R vs python for community
* Developer package
    * Template package
    * Listing of packages
        * Categorize (or tag)
        * Submission vs curation
    * If we hosted more packages
        * Review?
        * Can take over old packages
    * Gallery of examples
        * Like matplotlib or seaborn
        * Crowdsourced
* Moving forward/ follow ups
    * Governance models (Isaac will send out models)
        * How do we get more people involved
    * In person events
        * Sponsorship
    * Collect topics in a google doc (Isaac will start)
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