7 ppl attended

maintainathon recap

• went well, people extended their code bases, wrote blog posts or did other useful things

• posts were shared and some conversations took place

• but: didn’t engage ppl outside of our group

• ideas to improve:

  • maybe have a better outreach
  • connect with other social media events
  • maybe more advertisement beforehand
  • maybe also talk about it outside of social media, maybe ppl didn’t feel it was for them
  • ppl need to see the credit for them: give out stickers? badges?
  • ask departments and other institutions to join
  • maybe not just DigiArchMaintainathon, but maintainathon in general?
  • create SSLA swag, e.g. create stickers which we could send out and hand out at the conference
  • maybe output is missing? we could link to what people maintained to have a list of outputs

• agreement: primary focus on Mastodon and britching to bluesky is enough

invited talks

• Martin invited all 6 ppl we gathered last time (see here )

• postiive answers:

  • Dries Daems will give a presentation on NASSA in June (but can be flexible)
  • Danlu Chen will give a talk in May

• frequency of talks?

  • every second time, but there will be summer break so up to 4
  • we want the community feeling of talking with each other

• talk ideas:

  • someone with information on CRAN / PyPy / package development
  • Matteo has another colleague who could give a talk on development of “little languages” for a specific task

• topic of the talks we’ve invited are more on the side of digital infrastructure

• ArcheOS (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=archeos) has some new development

• Martin will ask those we had gathered before related to infrastructure anew

Plan for the year

• next time (March): voting on board
• Meeting in Vienna in person
• May and June with talks
• Summer break: July, August
• September: Plenary Meeting to start preparation for next maintainathon
• October and December: Presentation meetings
• November: Plenary Meeting

CAA Vienna

• we will have an in person meeting at Vienna in April instead of a regular meeting, Matteo will research an idea where to meet
• we should not do the official SIG SSLA meeting during the conference dinner

next time: voting on the board

• Martin would like to step down

• Zack would be able to step up for secretary

• Matteo thinks about it

• Martin write an email over the email list inviting ppl to write a statement applying for a position at the board

• there are no big rules on it: https://caa-international.org/special-interest-groups/

what are you working on?

• short tour de table on what projects ppl are working on right now