From dfdfe930cde34d4797667cf7b1ac8581aa48ca53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clemens Schmid Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:48:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] minutes for this month's meeting --- content/minutes/2023-12-06.md | 2 +- content/minutes/2024-02-07.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/minutes/2024-02-07.md diff --git a/content/minutes/2023-12-06.md b/content/minutes/2023-12-06.md index bd51cd1..0f2910f 100644 --- a/content/minutes/2023-12-06.md +++ b/content/minutes/2023-12-06.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: "Minutes of the SIG SSLA meeting 2023-12-04" +title: "35th regular meeting" date: 2023-12-04 --- diff --git a/content/minutes/2024-02-07.md b/content/minutes/2024-02-07.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..684cad5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/minutes/2024-02-07.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: "36th regular meeting" +date: 2024-02-07 +--- + +13 ppl attended + +## 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