Minutes 2025-05-02

minutes for 47th meeting

Author: SCSchmidt

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+title: "47th regular meeting"
+date: 2025-05-02
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+6 people attending
+
+## ESTER-project by Martin:
+- <https://ester-project.org/>
+- will start in September in Kiel
+- aims to calculate popilation densities with Bayesian statistics
+- his job advert has been prolonged to end of May: <https://ester-project.org/2025/05/01/were-hiring-join-the-ester-project-team/>
+
+## CAA:
+- meeting of SIG boards/representatives may not take place (SSLA seem to the most continouus active)
+
+- SIG SSLA meeting at CAA on Wednesday evening
+  - place: <https://maps.app.goo.gl/shwMwuVhJWyVg6bE6>
+  - after conference AGM
+  - time: 7:30 pm
+
+- CAA 2026 probably in Vienna (online poll, was only option)
+
+- Lisa Steinmanns talk about APIs at DAI will be interesting, focused on showcasing what hopefully will happen with API-access
+
+## Updates regarding next meetings:
+
+- Zack will take over the Summer Meetings June-August
+    - do we want to change date / time?
+        - Matteo would like to do another day than Friday in June
+        - Shawn needs to reply, whether he has time on Friday
+        - Martin forwards the email to Zack, who then can continue discussion
+
+    - do a poll for July
+
+- meeting after summer:
+    - Emily Coco in September
+    - Gabriele in October: MAPA project (AI related)
+
+- idea: do another joint SIG meeting?
+    - maybe if there's a SIG heads meeting, we can discuss this for a late summer meeting
+    - (we had a meeting with Little Minions and a meeting with Rchaeology)
+
+## Discussion:
+- paper about maintenance of open source code: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18971>
+
+    - epidemiology / biology: baseline for coding known by many, but doesn't mean it is maintained.
+    - archaeology has maybe more of an attitude based on sharing code and data (because all is modelling anyway)
+    - linked to expectation of being picked up by industry
+        - Zack: Canada happens rarely, but sometimes there is a spin off from research that works with the code developed from research
+
+- archeo riddle: paper is out now: <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000287>
+    - sadly only 5 participants
+    - the idea was great, we should have this more often
+
+- Maybe we could have some kind of competition or interaction like this as well?
+
+  - examples
+        - Shawn Graham: epoisien - competition and DH awards: <https://carleton.ca/history/2016/open-context-carleton-prize-archaeological-visualization/>
+        - 2019 Krakau CAA: tried to do a Hackathon, turned into a basic R lesson
+
+  - Matteo would like to do a Hackaton, but lacks ideas
+  - Zack: maybe a semester-long re-use project, or "open science fair" ?
+  - Matteo: idea to create a wrapper for a tool, so others can use it in their preferred language
+  - Zack: Hackaton for one week is commitment heavy and stressfull
+  - Matteo: tag-along for people who know one scripting language (R or python) and transfer one package into another, together (cross-pollination of R and python)
+
+  - advent of code: gives challenges for each day of the advent
+        - Matteo has done it one year, it would be fun to do it in a group
+        - <https://adventofcode.com/2024/about>
+        - probably hasn't been done in archaeology yet
+        - could also be a challenge to try the challenge in a language you are not familiar with
+
+   - Code Wars: <https://www.codewars.com/>
+        - tiny and playful tasks
+        - could be a cool resource to transfer ideas from
+
+- maybe discuss these ideas over summer?
+
+## next meeting
+- organised by Zack
+- talk by Shawn in June
+- date to be announced