Community Hangout - 27 August 2020

[sglavoie]

Our next 1h community hangout to chat about recent developments in Frictionless and data generally and next steps. Invite community members to it ...

Organizer: @sglavoie (Datopian) and @lwinfree (OKF)

Date: 27^th August 5pm BST

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions: Icebreaker! [10m]
• Link to meeting doc
• Social Media @Frictionlessd8a and Discord Channel
• Any items for the agenda?
• Updates
  • frictionless-py — frictionlessdata/frictionless-py: Frictionless for Python is a framework to describe, extract, validate, and transform tabular data.
  • We have a nice video presentation sent by none other than the technical lead working on the project, Evgeny!
  • @chrispomeroyhale has been working on 2 frictionless Swift libraries! You can check them out here: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-swift and here: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/tableschema-swift They are also on the Swift Package Directory (https://www.swiftpackage.directory/) and Swift Package Index (https://swiftpackageindex.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-swift) too
• Updates from Lilly: Reproducible Research Fellows Programme & Tool Fund
• Community announcements/sharing
  • Opportunities to contribute - see the forum and "good first issue"
• Discussion
  • Google Analytics vs GoatCounter vs Matomo vs … @loleg's expertise welcome! :slightly_smiling_face:
  • Suggestion: replace Google Analytics by GoatCounter #532 (GitHub).
• AOB
  • Next meeting for September https://forms.gle/5HeMrt2MDCYSYWxT8
• Frictionless-py questions/comments/feedback

Acceptance

• [x] Blog post for the hangout (where we can also post updates afterwards) — DONE: https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2020/08/27/august-virtual-hangout/
• [x] Announce on social media
• [x] x-post on blog.okfn.org and datopian.com and datahub.io (?) – DONE: https://blog.okfn.org/2020/08/24/frictionless-data-monthly-virtual-hangout-27-august/
• [ ] An awesome 🎉 1h community hangout with at least 15 participants – Awesome: Yes :sunglasses:. 1h: roughly. 15 participants: 8 officially joined. We'll share more on YouTube, blog about it and let people know what we were up to on Twitter and Discord to reach the rest of the community. :muscle:
• [x] Material prepped re how people can contribute – DONE: We have a list of separated issues and Rufus Pollock showed a great overview during the meeting of the tools we are working on, letting people know that their contributions are welcome any time.

Tasks

• [x] Update RSVP form with the correct hangout date. — DONE: https://forms.gle/3wEGBy2q4Q6pdNfK8
• [x] Zoom call link
  • [x] Email guests ~2-3h before the event with the meeting details.
  • [x] Send meeting link ~10 minutes before the event on Discord.
• [x] Add previous guests to the Google Calendar invite
• [x] Create a new entry in the public meeting doc with agenda for this hangout.
• [x] Announce on Twitter
  • [x] Tue 25 August
  • [x] Early Thu 27 August
• [x] Send reminders on Discord
  • [x] Mon 24 August
  • Wed 26 August (barely any messages were added to the channel, this will be more spammy than anything else)
• [x] Schedule September Zoom meeting – DONE:
• [x] Recording on YouTube.
  • [x] Update blog post with link to YouTube video.

[loleg]

I've been using, integrating, involved in discussions with https://usefathom.com/ happy to add my 2 cents to the Analytics discussion. In fact I've had thoughts about promoting more open analytics data for a while.

[sglavoie]

Thank you @loleg! Your point of view as a veteran on this topic will definitely be welcome! I am sure we will all benefit from your presence if you can make it (and it looks like a yes from the calendar :wink:).

[sglavoie]

FIXED: Closing as all tasks were completed, nothing else needs to be done for this issue.