Tech Team Meeting: 2024-07

Agenda

• New Members (5 min)
• GitHub Discussions (15 min)
• New Ideas (15 min)
• Next Steps (15 min)

• This will be the rough agenda for every meeting
• This month we’ll likely focus almost entirely on the GitHub discussion.

New Members

Jon Harmon

• Joined Gilead (via Atorus Research) w/ open-source focus
• Runs the Data Science Learning Community / TidyTuesday
• Created dozens of packages

• I have a lot of experience with:
  • Software dev
    • Formerly ran a product team at an educational startup
    • Lots of experience with Agile & OSS
    • R packages = my happy place
  • Community building
  • Educational materials
• I’ll need help with:
  • Deciding what to build
  • User feedback
  • Prioritization

Anyone else?

• Can everyone else do a quick intro for me?
  • Focus on ideas and review, or writing code?
    • Package-creation experiences?
    • OSS experience?
    • GitHub?

GitHub Discussions

CSM Brainstorm

We need to pick the first CSM module for the team to work on. Please drop ideas/screenshots/links in this chat and we will review at our next team meeting and select our first project!

• GitHub
• Any other ideas?
• What problem should we solve first?
• Roles?

• Get everyone to join the org.
• Jeremy, do you want to talk through your responses?
• Any other ideas?
• Should we start with this?
• What problem can we solve first?
  • Is there a particular function that would be helpful?
• What role does everyone plan to take?
  • I’ll set up repository and get basic package skeleton (including GHA) set up.
  • Ideally I’d love for everyone to submit & reply to issues.
  • I can create the whole thing if people want, but I’ll need reviews!

New Ideas

Anything else?

Next Steps

• Tasks?
• Next meeting: 2024-08-28, 11am EDT
  • Any issues with date/time?