minutes for this month's meeting

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-title: "Minutes of the SIG SSLA meeting 2023-12-04"
+title: "35th regular meeting"
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+title: "36th regular meeting"
+date: 2024-02-07
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+13 ppl attended
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+## Open exchange
+
+- A number of new people attended the meeting: Mathias Bellat, Lisa Steinmann, Julian Laabs, Andrea Titolo
+- Various colleagues from France are in the process of creating a national CAA chapter
+- Oliver Nakoinz announced that there will be a Mosaic summer school in Kiel 2024. Topic: Handling chronological data
+- Zack Batist and Joe Roe shared a preprint about "Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers": http://zackbatist.info/openarchaeo-collaboration
+- Zack Batist applied some major changes to OpenArchaeo and documented them in a blog post: https://blog.zackbatist.info/2024/02/02/pruning-open-archaeo
+- Mathias Bellat asked the SSLA community for feedback on a data analysis script: https://github.com/Mathias75018/ML_article
+- James Allison reminded us of the SSLA-co-organized EAA session "Applying Archaeological Research Software Engineering as Little Minions: Statistical & Computational Approaches to Daily Archaeological Tasks": https://sslarch.github.io/sessions/eaa2024_session
+- Sophie Schmidt made us aware of "tesselle", a collection of R packages for research and teaching in archaeology: https://www.tesselle.org
+- Thomas Huet announced a new machine learning project in Python on satellite image data. He invited interested community members to contact him.
+
+## Organisation
+
+- The SIG slack channel will be deleted next week on Monday, 12th of February. The new chat is at https://chat.archaeo.social with an invite-only room for the SIG-SSLA
+- Brainstorming for external speakers we want to invite this year:
+	- John Graham, LLM
+	- Jörg Baten, Archaeological data in Economic history (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01700-y)
+	- Daniel Kondor, Population booms and busts (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35920-z)
+	- Nikolas Frerebeau, tesselle R packages (https://www.tesselle.org)
+	- Andrea Manica, pastclim R package (https://github.com/EvolEcolGroup/pastclim)
+- Brainstorming for new group projects:
+	- Guidelines for newcomers? / FAQ / Mini blog posts
+		- Inspiration: https://jon-e.net/monsterdon
+		- Webpage that collates mastodon posts with a certain hashtag?
+	- Intro to computational archaeology textbook (e.g. https://o-date.github.io/draft/book/)
+	- A Playful coding introduction website for archaeologists (maybe using webR)
+	- Recover old archaeological software that is not maintained any more (e.g. https://github.com/sslarch/tfqar or https://github.com/kacebe/AtlantGIS)
+	- Organize a winter school together
+
+## Next SIG Meeting: Wednesday, March 6, 2024