pyOpenSci Meeting Notes - 14 November 2019

Attendees

• Leah Wasser, Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
• Jenny Palomino, Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
• Luiz Irber, DIB Lab - UC Davis
• Ivan Ogasawara
• Max Joseph, Earth Lab/CU Boulder
• Chris Holdgraf, UC Berkeley
• Martin
• Nicholas Sofroniew
• Sasha Kielbowicz
• David Nicholson

Agenda

0. calendar – https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cmU2a2d1NGw2cDhzcTNhMXQxa3NlcHFtbTRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
   1. https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776 <- discourse plugin for creating a calendar
1. Package review updates & Successes
   • EarthPy / first JOSS review was successful!! Thank you Luiz for being the editor and pushing that through!!!
     • https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1886#issuecomment-553533010
   • Moving Pandas – should we review? And we need an editor! https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-review/issues/14
     • Issue about adding a question about upstreaming: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/dev_guide/issues/40
   • Rmdawn update - max? Still waiting for submission. Pre-submission approved.
     • Martin: Yes, I will prepare the submission. Thanks!
2. Add your name to the website as a contributor please:
   • Do this now if you are game??!! https://github.com/pyOpenSci/pyopensci.github.io/blob/master/_data/contributors.yml
   • It will be posted here once merged: https://www.pyopensci.org/contributors/
   • please update this file with your info: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/pyopensci.githu
3. Our first blog post: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/pyopensci.github.io/pull/28 anyone want to give this a quick review? then it can go live!!
   • Chris can have a look
   • Ivan will have a look
   • What is the criteria for a blog post (current guidelines are drafted here: https://hackmd.io/RX2nz6WFSm-RjHyOIsmTnA)
   • TODO: provide instructions for contributing blogposts in the github repo! (example from rOpenSci: https://github.com/ropensci/roweb2#contributing-a-blog-post) <- we could add this info to the readme of our website repo
4. Agu town hall (Thank you ESIP!!) - wed @12:30 -
   • coordinating with leo and lindsey on their open source efforts
   • https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Session/82135 <this doesn't work just yet - they are updating it to represent pyopensci

• agenda
• breakout for 30ish minutes
• 10 minute wrap up

Define the kind of person we hope to attend.

• Pycon?? is anyone thinking about submitting: dec 20 – it's in pitt, PA – dave is willing to help? luiz –
  • https://us.pycon.org/2020/speaking/talks/

7. Software metadata (ongoing discussion)
8. Had a conversation about best practices at the MSDSE summit
   • Notes here: http://bit.ly/msdseb4
   • Maybe interesting for pyOpenSci docs?
   • Maybe a blog post?
   • Jupyter Community Workshops: https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-community-workshops-call-for-proposals-for-jan-aug-2020-710f687e30f4
   • Jupyter for education book: https://jupyter4edu.github.io/jupyter-edu-book/
     Other Topics??
     • PyOpenSci dev guide:
       • https://www.pyopensci.org/dev_guide/intro
       • https://www.pyopensci.org/dev_guide/peer_review/author_guide.html

Education resource potential

• mentorship for review

• we are currently getting submission for people who have technical knowledge and who have some expeirence with CI, testing etc

• we'd like to reach out and embrace those with less experience building packages, using CI and testing

• Is there a way to add some of these conversations to Discourse?? Maybe add a discourse thread each time topics come up.

• Ivan's mention of pyopensci: https://youtu.be/8bO8oge4ic4?t=1001