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# 2023-09-11 NumPy Documentation Team meeting

- Time: 12 pm UTC
- Join via Zoom: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/85016474448?pwd=TWEvaWJ1SklyVEpwNXUrcHV1YmFJQT09 (To dial in, find your local number: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/u/kbRSNdYfoZ)
- [NumPy community events calendar](https://scientific-python.org/calendars/)
- [Documentation issues](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/labels/04%20-%20Documentation)
- [Documentation brainstorming document](https://hackmd.io/RdtnQZpLRZqgNRe4gaJ0SA) - anything that is not yet ready for an issue or PR or needs a discussion
- [Documentation team meetings notes archive](https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/main/docs_team_meetings)
- [Community meetings notes archive](https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/main/community_meetings)
- [Triage meetings notes archive](https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/master/triage_meetings)
- Next meeting: 2023-09-25 @ TBD

### Useful links

- Getting started with building documentation: https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/howto_build_docs.html
- How to contribute to the NumPy documentation: https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/howto-docs.html

### Code of Conduct

We want to take a moment to remind you that this meeting is meant to be welcoming and inclusive. It's important for us to have a healthy community. Like all NumPy spaces, and everyone participating in them, this meeting will follow our [Code of Conduct](https://numpy.org/code-of-conduct/). If you haven't read it yet, please take some time to do so later on as it already applies to you. For now, in short, please be kind and generous towards one another.

If you see violations, take a screenshot, intervene in a respectful manner, and report it to the CoC Committee via email. For more information, refer to the Reporting Guidelines section on https://numpy.org/code-of-conduct/.

**Present:**

**Notes taken by:**

## Standing topics

- [name=inessa] Presentation topics for NumPy Newcomers’ Hour
To suggest a topic for future presentations, leave a comment in this tracking issue: https://github.com/numpy/archive/issues/58.
- Short form content?

- [name=Inessa & Melissa] [Documentation user stories](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/22089)
*Feel free to add yours!*

- Inessa: issues related to the NumPy educational content:
https://github.com/numpy/archive/issues/55
If you’d like to work on any of them, leave a comment on GitHub (below the relevant issue).

- Tracking inactive PRs: https://github.com/orgs/numpy/projects/6
(help with triaging is welcome!)

## Follow-up from last meeting / discussions

## New topics

- **Review #2** for GSOD-NumPy 2023 Cmopleted
- [Link to Script](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjLTDqSkcKMxo8oSTRThllBFpjo5rXS9/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true)
- Script focuses on a group of students learning how to contribute to NumPy by creating an issue for a usability problem
- Hosted a review session at the **previous NumPy Community Meeting on August 16**
- [Github thread](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/24382) and Google Docs opened for two weeks and **closed on August 23**
- Adjust steps or timeline
- Previously brought up possibilty of completing at end of Sept, now may keep to original completion date of middle of Oct
- May need to remove steps such as blog posts4
- Pause in last 2 weeks, original plan to have Community Review #3 on Sept 13

- **Previous steps**:
- Review #2 (August)
- Review #1 (July)
- Outlining stage for GSOD-NumPy 2023 (May 15-26):
- Gathering community input stage and 3 brainstorming sesions
- At Newcomer(May 4) NumPy Docs (May 8), Commmunity (May 10)
- [Link to Google Jamboard](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1j_rEIslOh59N9cLGU1VGc7rTc88SuLTi7l4YqTqAULc/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Summary from Brainstorming Sessions](https://github.com/MarsBarLee/gsod-numpy-2023/blob/main/outlining/summary-from-brainstorming-sessions.md)
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