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@max-sixty @shoyer @dcherian @jhamman Thanks very much for your time.

Capturing the high level takeaways for posterity

• Sharing concrete examples were beneficial for xarray team
• Conference call was useful for xarray team, primarily because they get to see each other
• Long form self contained github issues are useful for xarray project
• Adding issues to where docs are challenging, or being able to convert ArviZ use case examples into general purpose cookbook docs will be useful
• Doing this every so often sounds like a good idea

More generally from our side it was very helpful to hear the background of why things are they way they are, and get a sense of where they are going. @shoyer I thought your live api building was informative as well.

Notes are in agenda doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1inOj9SriMq1CHKCpX4j9hNkvZk_tQv9xsYnqCREdkdo/edit#

Really looking forward to all the changes coming up and certainly, and with much bias, hope the funding comes through.

As far as I can tell this issue "closed" Thanks again

Hi all, Meet details are in the Google sheet. Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1inOj9SriMq1CHKCpX4j9hNkvZk_tQv9xsYnqCREdkdo/edit#heading=h.cst6w4xawnaf

An agenda is available here as well. Feel free to edit, comment , whatever you like https://docs.google.com/document/d/1inOj9SriMq1CHKCpX4j9hNkvZk_tQv9xsYnqCREdkdo/edit#heading=h.cst6w4xawnaf

It looks like Friday the 27th is the most popular day by a margin of 1. Any dissenters if we schedule the meeting for that day?

Given no response in 24 hours I'll post a google hangouts link

@max-sixty I can see about adding other times, if someone wants to propose them, but we might have to just re-poll.

We have always had our meetings early in the morning wrt PT because of people in Europe, I believe.

@rpgoldman Doodle poll would be great if you can create one

Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/x6quxzmyu5qxqd98

27th works for me, 25th does not. Thanks for setting this up.

I have a paid Doodle account, if you would like me to set up a poll instead of doing this here.

Hey all, Apologies on the delay things have been hectic to say the least.

Does the 25th or the 27th work for you all at 7am PST? The early time for the Americans is to accommodate the devs in Europe. If it does let me know and I can schedule a meeting on Google Hangouts.

Hi all, Quick follow up on this. We had our ArviZ dev meeting last week and we reproduced the consensus that we'd like to chat!

In regards to @dcherian's suggestion for a meeting. I'm thinking mid March (15th to 21st) is far enough out that people's schedules would be free. Can I use this github issue to work with you all to find a good time, (and virtual conference channel?)

@shoyer Thanks for the offer, I live in Socal and come to the Bay Area often so I will definitely take you up on that offer. Let me know if there's some good way to contact you, I'm assuming Github issues might be inappropriate :)

@dcherian I'll circle back with all the folks in ArviZ and we'll get a proposed agenda. Will post again here within a week

And lastly it sounds like scipy is the front running candidate for a conference. Which now means I really need to submit a talk or tutorial today.......

Just add another note our questions span more than just code examples for the current API. We really do value xarray tremendously on the ArviZ side and we're looking to expand ArviZ functionality using things that may, or may not, end up in xarray. Since these questions more vague and messy roadmap type questions that don't fit neatly into a git repo with reproducible code, that's where the conference hallway tracks fit in! Hope this makes sense!

Thank you @max-sixty. I'm a huge proponent of in person meetings so will see if things fit there first, but if not falling back to remote will be easy!

In order of number of ArviZ devs closeby or present * Boston for Probprog (Colin, Oriol, Alex, Ravin, Eric) * PyDataNYC (Colin, probably, Robert Goldman, Ravin if were meeting) * Scipy (Colin probably, Ravin maybe) * PyDataLA (Ravin) * Pycon (Colin) * NumFocus Summit (?)

Are any of y'all from the xarray side planning to have a critical mass at any of these conferences?