Oct 24th, Core team meeting minutes

[Crosita]

Agenda

• assign meeting minute owner
• welcome new joiners
• Phuse US March 2025: submit new abstract only if one of us can commute to Florida
• architecture update (issue 98)

[wiligl]

MINUTES:

1. New member: Damian Rodziewicz, Co-founder Appsilon Data Science

2. Phuse US March 2025, Volunteers wanted to present working group (Doug? Damian or Appsilon Team?)

3. Presentation of current state of work by Doug based on work by Magnus (see last week)
   -Workflow to create images (based on Rocky Linux) and check packages based on GitHub Actions [1]
   -Discussion on how to store results of validation runs and updated package information (eg, PACKAGES files, YAML file per package) and how store code of validated packages (eg database of source code tar balls)
   -QUESTION: What do we need from a container image?

4. Next steps:
   -Conferences:
   2024-11-01, Lightning talk (10min) + Workshop (2h), R Pharma Virtual Conference (Learnings on riskmetric approaches)
   2024-11-11, Presentation at The Effective Statistician Conference

-Communication: Recommendation to use SLACK platform (Link???), SLACK maybe migrated to Linux Foundation/R Consortium platform

-Create package validation report for upcoming conferences (Luis, Xinye, ...)

-Continue work on Container image using GitHub Action (Magnus, Yann, Wilmar, ...)

Mentioned links and Github issues:
[1] https://github.com/mmengelbier/wg-testimage
[2] #99
[3] #98
[4] #93
[5] https://rinpharma.com/post/2024-10-13-workshops/