[Bigbang-dev] notes from 14 January (was Re: ongoing BigBang biweekly meetings 2022)

[Nick Doty]

Belatedly, we had a meeting last Friday, January 14th, and I've included
the notes below. After the giganet ig-methods workshop, it sounds like
there is more interest in collaborative events, including potentially in
May at Northwestern, or with an upcoming IETF hackathon.

Next meeting is planned for Friday, January 28th, to discuss at least the
following:
* triage and confirm for 0.4 release
* planning for what's necessary for 1.0.
* share any plans for next academic publications
* Prototype Fund update

You can subscribe to the calendar with your client here:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_22ph1arrl1928k92sk9mv7jjtk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Cheers,
Nick

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January 14
Present: Riccardo, Christoph, Nick, Seb

Agenda:
    - Prototype Fund
    - refactoring and codebase status
    - dashboards
    - next release
    - future academic collaboration/publication

Prototype Fund still requires a video presentation, demo and blog post.
Attempting to use Google Colab to make it easier to run demos. And Riccardo
can help with providing a user-friendly accessible perspective to the
tutorial presentation. Google Colab could also connect to a dataset on a
shared Google Drive; and so demo participants might be able to sign data
sharing agreement, or we could just have sample dummy dataset.

Logging replacing print statements -- should be completed now.

Dashboards? Sodestream has something for IETF, we could do something
similar for 3gpp, w3c, icann, etc. There may be a UVA masters student that
may be interested in helping.

ICANN ingress requires an SSL configuration step, but this isn't documented
yet; 3GPP requires setting up a user account and including credentials.

Open PR 536 from Seb: trying to finish by end of January.

Lots of contributions / activity in the repository recently. Yay! Maybe we
should triage and make a planned 0.4 release. Seb volunteering to manage
that release.

Milestone documentation is a little informal. Plan would be 1.0 release
along with JOSS publication. More polished code and documentation before
1.0. Commitment to details of a particular API. Streamline and make
examples consistent.

Giganet workshop on research methods: https://ig-methods.sciencesconf.org
Lots of mentions of Bigbang and potential collaboration. Similar
discussions as the IAB workshop. Format for continuing conversations?
Justus supportive and recommended May research roundtable at Northwestern.
May 4-6 Second Annual Empirical Research Workshop and Conference on
Standardization (postponed from May 2020)
could be a project for next IETF hackathon, to provide some regularity of
working together.

Breakage and stale code for mailman archives, many of which are using
different UI formats now.

Seb: more interested in the data analysis side at the moment. focus on
organization/affiliation questions.

meeting with law firm next week re: gdpr topics and data sharing agreements.

w3c code extensively refactored, Seb was available to review. w3c code in
parallel to 3gpp code. Nick to look through that to catch up.

Nick to document colorblind/standard styling #507

Seb cleaned up examples directory, and should have correct pointers to new
code now.

shared taxonomy/methodology on organizations and stakeholder groups
(started at IAB workshop) -- worth picking up again even if we couldn't
finish in the first hackathon week.

Seb eager to work on a publishable academic piece: affiliation,
institutions, organizations; definitely interested in paper collaboration.
Nick: CDT interested in diversity of participation in standard-setting
communities and civil society involvement. not clear on ultimate
deliverable, but might be interest in regular reporting out on who is
participating.
Christoph: with Niels and Riccardo, looking at topics of discussion in
3gpp, more nlp-style work. sustainability/climate change topic picked up at
IAB workshop -- still working on this.

Riccardo: my PhD thesis will be submitted in two weeks' time and I am
currently publishing my first article using Bigbang plus interviews (yay!)

For next meeting (28 January): triage and confirm for 0.4 release, and some
planning for what's necessary for 1.0. And share any plans for next
academic publications. And Prototype Fund update.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:13 PM Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> You should have received a calendar invite email to this list for our
> regular biweekly meeting discussing BigBang development, starting again on
> Friday, January 14th at 9am US Eastern / 14:00 UTC / 15:00 Central European.
>
> We can use this Jitsi room for video and audio:
> https://meet.jit.si/BigBangBiWeeklyCall
> And this pad for ongoing meeting notes:
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/BIGBANGnotes
> (Thanks Niels for setting those up!)
>
> I can make changes to that calendar invite (and send update emails) when
> we need to cancel or add an ad hoc meeting. You can also subscribe to the
> calendar with your preferred software via an ICS here:
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_22ph1arrl1928k92sk9mv7jjtk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
>
> Looking forward to talking with you all again soon, and getting caught up
> on the flurry of activity I've seen in github issues and PRs.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> (Invite sent just to bigbang-dev, which I think is a superset of the
> bigbang-user list. Could be marked as spoofed by your mail client, as it
> will come from npdoty at berkeley.edu but via the bigbang-dev mailing list.)
>
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