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title: 2022-01-18 Scanpy meeting notes
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# 2022-01-18 Scanpy meeting notes

## Agenda

* `scverse` update An overview of what's going on
* What’s in the AnnData release candidate
* How do these meetings work?
    * We’re growing and it’s hard to have a meeting that’s useful for everyone
    * We’ve been doing a lot of ad-hoc meetings, but these aren’t super accessible
    * Perhaps we do more topic driven meetings?
* AwkwardArray *Giovanni*

## Notes

* IO Module
    * Should there be a package
* squidpy release meeting
    * ML/ spatial meeting tomorrow 3:30
* HIWI Hiring
    * Should be updates on this next week when David is back
    * We should have a meeting with David about this hiring
* Cross repository tutorials meeting
    * Isaac will ping Maren when we plan cross package tutorials
* Hackathon idea
    * Unsure when this will be
    * Sprints on packages in the ecosystem
    * Goal is commnity building
* Which packages fit in scverse?
    * scvelo? It is core for rna velocity
    * cellrank?
* `SparseDataset` – Sergei
    * Would be nice to export
* Interchange: https://github.com/single-cell-data/matrix-api

### Meetings

* Purpose of meetings
    * Probably to many, but also topic suggestions?
* More specific meeting times
    * Technical meeting times – Isaac will reach out to Danila
        * Every two weeks
    * Governance meetings for community stuff
