Steering Council meeting minutes

[jGaboardi]

This thread will serve as the running documentation for the Steering Council meeting minutes, like the one for the monthly developer meetings. The previous minutes archive are here.

[jGaboardi]

2024-02-07

Attendance

• @knaaptime
• @jGaboardi
• @martinfleis

Agenda

• Future of the Code of Conduct Committee
  • see also pysal/code_of_conduct
  • @martinfleis mentioned NumFocus during the 2024-01 meeting
• Documentation (see consider new theme and GHA for versioned docs #1282)
• etc...

[knaaptime]

• versioning on docs
• standardization of user guide/notebooks project
• decide on common (modern) theme

[knaaptime]

• reconsider doc publishing recipe to point to last release rather than current main

[jGaboardi]

Code of Conduct notes:

• NumFocus summit in Amsterdam where potential for NF hosted CoC was discussed
• CoC infrastructure survey went out in 2023-12
• CoC planning team working on survey report in 2024-01
• Will this be available for affiliated projects or only sponsored projects?
• Martin will keep a look out.

[jGaboardi]

2025-02-06

Attendance

• @jGaboardi
• @sjsrey
• @knaaptime
• @gegen07

Agenda

• gsoc
  • ideas
    • momepy – street-based tessellation
      • @gegen07 has some code on that
    • spopt – TSP
      • See TSP suite?  spopt#464 & add initial commit for routing engine spopt#465
    • Multiple Dispatch
      • pointpats, spreg, etc...
  • @sjsrey will crunch over the weekend and ping on Sunday
• esda
  • do a last-minute release?
  • decision -- yes
• meta
  • changelog automation issues
  • potentially a composite workflow built of micro-actions
  • "PR" (public relations) highlights for individual contributions
    • create issues for each package in PySAL
    • tag package maintainer for highlights
    • potentially automate this
• spaghetti
  • stagnant since 2018
  • will break once geometries from libpysal.cg are removed
    • phase out libpysal geometries spaghetti#646
  • needs love or decision to archive
  • Decision
    • move core functionality into lib
    • can be directly consumed by segregation, momepy, etc.
    • sunset spaghetti like what we did with splot & spvcm

[jGaboardi]

2025-05-01

Attendance

• @gegen07
• @knaaptime
• @jGaboardi

Agenda

• Proposed CoC by NumFocus
  • https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct
  • Rec. passed unanimously by Steering Council
• GSoC update (@Germano)
  • 2 slots
  • spopt
    • routing
    • flow-refueling model

[jGaboardi]

2025-08-21

Attendance

• @gegen07
• @knaaptime
• @jGaboardi

Agenda

• GSoC update - Germano
  • both projects successful
• NSF grant update (Eli)
• NARSC session
• AAG co-organized session?