<div dir="ltr"><div>Some Bigbang folks met earlier today. Full notes below, but we primarily discussed:</div><div>* Binder, and the ability to run tutorials/example notebooks via web</div><div>* 0.4 release (to be named "Молодец") and PRs to merge</div><div>* tools for ingesting github data and analyzing standards bodies that use github</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Next meeting is 25 February. You can subscribe to the calendar with your client here: <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_22ph1arrl1928k92sk9mv7jjtk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics" target="_blank">https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_22ph1arrl1928k92sk9mv7jjtk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Nick</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr">---</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">February 11<br>Present: Niels, Christoph, Seb, Nick, Riccardo, Priyanka<br>    <br>Agenda:<br>    - create new repo in the Datactive/ group which we can use for tutorials with Binder: <a href="https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/communication/binder/zero-to-binder.html">https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/communication/binder/zero-to-binder.html</a><br>    - v0.4.0 name: Молодец<br><br>Christoph: recommend creating Binder for tutorial notebooks, which would need its own repository in the datactive organization<br><br>    Seb: not sure how useful it will be to run the notebook, rather than looking at the rendered notebook.<br><br>    could we just use Colab?<br><br>    Christoph: potential interest from funders on having it easily web-runnable<br><br>    Niels: would be really great to have the web accessible interface, but should maybe find someone ahead of time who would want to work on that and know how to do it<br><br>    Niels: dashboard could be a long-term goal, starting from notebooks on the Web<br><br><br>potential direction: toolkit for information policy research, within scipy ecosystem<br><br>    a more ambitious project to dynamically ingest data from SDOs<br><br>    economics, but also NLP or other data science topics?<br><br><br>funding: could apply for Prototype round 12<br><br>Niels: lots of need for standardization research, given recent AI legislation out of European Commission<br><br>    Seb: would be very interested in work around that<br><br>    Niels: and useful to comment publicly that standards should be open, transparent and researchable, rather than opaque pay-to-play<br><br>    new European standards strategy<br><br><br>Seb: will make introduction/collaboration to Mridul Seth<br><br>github<br><br>    Priyanka: REST API very usable for github, have just used it directly<br><br>    Seb: but certainly some libraries exist that we could use<br><br>    <a href="https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub">https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub</a><br><br>    <a href="https://github.com/nelsonic/github-scraper">https://github.com/nelsonic/github-scraper</a><br><br>    github data very structured, but lots of datatypes and potential changes<br><br>    might be useful to start with a single particular research use case<br><br><br>    Nick: I would like to take some standards wg that is using github issues for conversation and just do a first pass and see what can be learned<br><br><br>start with a list of relevant repositories used for discussion/standards development<br><br>    does w3c or ietf have clear organization about which repositories are being used for standards?<br><br><br>0.4 release<br><br>    a few of us have pr's we need to integrate soon, but getting close<br><br>    <a href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4">https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4</a><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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