9 ppl attended
Organisational issues
- Twitter (some of these suggestions could become part of our Twitter guidelines)
- The account can be set up and should have the name CAA-SSLA
- Content collection can happen on our group chat
- The account should focus on archaeology and not so much on general developments in the scripting languages world
- Solid, hearty, high quality tweets should dominate
- Scheduling posts before posting and weekly/monthly collection posts may be powerful tools to increase impact
- We should post with one or multiple dedicated hashtags to allow for searching and filtering
- Regular tweets are better than random bursts of activity with weeks of silence in between
- Logo
- There are different preferences in the group
- We will organise a ranked poll to decide
- The winner of this survey will be announced at the next meeting
- Group chat software
- Each system has clear advantages and disadvantages
- For now we will set up a Slack channel
- Later we want to change to something more FOSS
Upcoming conferences, meetings and sessions
- CAA2021
- The SIG session “Tools for the Revolution: developing packages for scientific programming in archaeology” by Joe Roe, Martin Hinz and Clemens Schmid was submitted
- We did not discuss the planned, accompanying workshop
Open exchange about activities and software updates
- Zack Batist: OpenArchaeo Update - https://open-archaeo.info/
- Ideas: Github integration, improved segmentation
- The work on this list could become a collaborative project for the SIG SSLA
- Joseph Lewis: Work on a new package to prepare high resolution topographic data for Italy
- Clemens: Exciting new version of magrittr
- https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/11/magrittr-2-0-is-here/
- |> to be included as a “base” piping operator in an upcoming version of R
- Joe Roe: Mapping of TFQAR to R solutions - https://github.com/sslarch/tfqar
- Completing this list and bridging gaps between the tools could as well be a project for the SIG SSLA
- Zack Batist: Invitation to participate in the colloquium of the Archaeological Information Interest Group of Toronto University
