[Bigbang-dev] notes from 11 February

[Nick Doty]

Some Bigbang folks met earlier today. Full notes below, but we primarily
discussed:
* Binder, and the ability to run tutorials/example notebooks via web
* 0.4 release (to be named "Молодец") and PRs to merge
* tools for ingesting github data and analyzing standards bodies that use
github

Next meeting is 25 February. You can subscribe to the calendar with your
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Cheers,
Nick

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February 11
Present: Niels, Christoph, Seb, Nick, Riccardo, Priyanka

Agenda:
    - create new repo in the Datactive/ group which we can use for
tutorials with Binder:
https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/communication/binder/zero-to-binder.html
    - v0.4.0 name: Молодец

Christoph: recommend creating Binder for tutorial notebooks, which would
need its own repository in the datactive organization

    Seb: not sure how useful it will be to run the notebook, rather than
looking at the rendered notebook.

    could we just use Colab?

    Christoph: potential interest from funders on having it easily
web-runnable

    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

    Niels: dashboard could be a long-term goal, starting from notebooks on
the Web


potential direction: toolkit for information policy research, within scipy
ecosystem

    a more ambitious project to dynamically ingest data from SDOs

    economics, but also NLP or other data science topics?


funding: could apply for Prototype round 12

Niels: lots of need for standardization research, given recent AI
legislation out of European Commission

    Seb: would be very interested in work around that

    Niels: and useful to comment publicly that standards should be open,
transparent and researchable, rather than opaque pay-to-play

    new European standards strategy


Seb: will make introduction/collaboration to Mridul Seth

github

    Priyanka: REST API very usable for github, have just used it directly

    Seb: but certainly some libraries exist that we could use

    https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub

    https://github.com/nelsonic/github-scraper

    github data very structured, but lots of datatypes and potential changes

    might be useful to start with a single particular research use case


    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


start with a list of relevant repositories used for discussion/standards
development

    does w3c or ietf have clear organization about which repositories are
being used for standards?


0.4 release

    a few of us have pr's we need to integrate soon, but getting close


https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4
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