Steering Committee - Meeting Minutes and Decisions

[binste]

We'll use this discussion to document decisions taken in meetings of the Vega Steering Committee. Everyone is welcome to provide inputs by replying to the individual discussion comments. Top-level comments are ideally to be used for the minutes only.

See vega/altair#3164 for a history of the meeting minutes and decisions of the former Vega-Altair Steering Committee which got merged into the Vega Steering Committee.

[binste]

2024-03-15

Participants:

• @binste
• @joelostblom
• @domoritz
• @jonmmease
• @mattijn

Decisions and next actions

• The consensus was that we want to move all active repositories from https://github.com/altair-viz to https://github.com/vega. The main challenge we identified will be to ensure redirects from the current Altair docs page to the new one after the move.
  • As preparation, @binste will set up a test repo for the docs in altair-viz to redirect to another test repo in Vega. The redirects need to be on every single page of the docs.
  • The repo vega_datasets exists in both organizations. We'll rename the one from altair-viz to python_vega_datasets. Later on, these two could be merged into one.
• Altair docs now use plausible.io, sponsored by scientific-python.org, for privacy-friendly web analytics. See Docs: Add privacy-friendly web analytics with plausible altair#3346. This could also be interesting for the Vega and Vega-Lite docs.
  • @binste to contact folks at scientific-python.org if they'd be ok with adding the Vega and Vega-Lite docs to their plausible.io server for privacy-friendly web analytics. for the corresponding PR in the Altair docs
  • @binste to invite @domoritz to Altair Plausible space so Dominik can see what kind of data is available
• We've decided by consensus that we want to apply as a "Vega organization" for NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship, deadline 15.04.
  • @joelostblom to set up a Google Docs and start drafting the application. Logos available at https://github.com/vega/logos if needed. We might also need to update the https://github.com/vega/roadmap for the application or use the Altair roadmap for now.
• All participants (majority of steering committee) voted in favour of accepting VegaFusion to the Vega organization. Big thank you to hex-inc for donating the project and to @jonmmease for all the hard work that he put into it 🥳
  • @jonmmease to move the VegaFusion repo to the Vega org and add the project to the beginning of the https://github.com/vega/.github/blob/main/CHARTER.md document
• Not a "next action" but an idea we discussed was to document the various ways how students could get involved in the Vega projects such as “If you’re part of university X, ... or consider applying for Google Summer of Code”.