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title: 2023/10/12 SpatialData community meeting

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# 2023/10/12 SpatialData community meeting 

[Zoom link](https://embl-org.zoom.us/j/97353680729?pwd=di8zbmF1akVxU0ZqTUxMQ0pVSVp5QT09)
11AM to 12PM CET

If you are an external guest and you plan to attend, please write your name among the attendees and add time for a short introduction or topic to the agenda.

Should you wish to attend from a different time zone, please inform us here of your time-zone and topic so we can plan a more convenient slot.
    
*Attendees:* Benjamin Rombaut, Luca Marconato, Tim Treis

## Agenda and notes

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- (Name) Topic (00min)
    - (Notes)
- (Luca) Updates on paper, development and hackathons (10min)
    - New coninuous integration system with Airflow
        - Airflow setup to autorun scripts and tests in spatialdata-sandbox and spatialdata-notebooks
        - runs everyday at noon, new data every week
        - conversion of data to zarr at midnight
        - more powerful than GitHub Actions
    - Working on more SpatialData GitHub Issues
    - Refactor of io
    - What's next:
        - more bugfixing, stability and documentation and notebooks in the next month
        - after that: refactor of transformations and multiple tables
        - only after transformation refactor think about ITK transformations
        - work on non-linear transformations
        - towards seperate low level transformation library that SpatialData and others can use (ome-zarr...). Also helps in maintenance and stability
- (Benjamin) Vitessce configs for SpatialData datasets now there is more support?
    - currently a CORS header bug in https://spatialdata.scverse.org/en/latest/tutorials/notebooks/datasets/README.html
    - Luca is communicating with IT to fix this
- SpatialData to Xenium explorer converter
    - Good lazy vector data representation (e.g. large Stereo-seq dataset)
    - But is on desktop and requires conversion, not remote like Vitessce
- Conversion of older SpatialData datasets to newer format
    - Needs manual conversion, needs tutorial if a user wants to update an older dataset
- List people in different time zones (5min)
    - East coast
        - Mark Keller (Vitessce team)
        - Matt McCormick
    - South Korea
        - Jeongbin Park

## Actionable items 

- (Luca) Contact IT for s3.embl.de CORS header fix
- (Luca) Conversion document for older to newer format