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title: 2022-01-27 scverse governance meeting notes
tags: [' governance', ' meeting', scverse]

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# 2022-01-27 scverse governance meeting notes

## Agenda

* Roles + teams
* Our documents – Workflow
* Our documents – review
* Logo (Just Danila + Isaac for the first meeting?)
* Who should we be talking to?
    * Spatial formats?
    * R?
    * Probable  next members
* Communication channels (?)


* Roles + teams
    * Votes
        * Yes Core developers
        * Yes recognition for broader developer recognition
    * How does this recognition work?
        * Org members?
        * Require packages say their contributors?
        * How to display
    * Role names
        * Steering committee
        * Core developers
        * Project developers
* Workflow for governance docs
    * In progress directory, then finalized move out
        * Let's us do PRs on the docs
* Make governance repo public – Isaac
* Danila + Isaac (at least) talk to Daniela
* Who should we be talking to?
    * Gregor Sturm – Probably next core member + project
    * Spatial formats?
        * Giovanni and Isaac are already on this
    * Episcanpy
        * Scalability issues
        * Isaac will connect Danila, Max,  in a couple weeks
    * Isaac will ping Adam again, see what's up with scvi-tools
    * scvelo?
        * Volker & Philipp
    * cellrank?
        * Marius & Michal
    * Lower priority
        * `vitessse` – talk about data formats?
        * `sgkit`, `cooler`, maybe later
    * Mo's ML models?
        * scArches? Or are they part of scVI anyways?
    * Sfaira?
        * David & Leander
    * R?
    * Probable  next members


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    - Information: #welcome-and-rules, #announcements, #resources
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