Merge pull request #41 from BIDS-numpy/add-2019-08-07

add note from 2019-08-07

Author: mattip

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+# 2019-08-07 NumPy Development Meeting
+
+- Time: 11am Pacific Time
+- Join via Zoom at https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/762261535
+- [Trello workboard](https://trello.com/b/Azg4fYZH/numpy-at-bids)
+- [Previous meetings](https://github.com/BIDS-numpy/docs/tree/master/status_meetings)
+
+**Present:** Inessa, Tyler, Peter Entschev, ZJ Poh, Sebastian, Ralf, Chuck, Kriti, Matthew Brett
+
+
+## Follow-up from last meeting / discussions
+
+- Proposal for dropping older Python versions [NEP 29](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086/files)
+    - We need some data (Python 3.5 downloads).  Preliminary analysis at [this repo](https://github.com/matthew-brett/pypi-by-distro).  See results at end of [this notebook](https://github.com/matthew-brett/pypi-by-distro/blob/master/analyze_pypi_downloads.ipynb).
+    - Maybe probably target things like Ubuntu LTS?
+    - The people involved in the discussion are not those affected by it. (we may force users to Anaconda).
+    - NEP could have options: Projects could decide how fast they move.
+
+- Community building
+    - A survey is planned. 
+    - Season of Docs participants announced
+- Website redesign PEP merged.
+    - Added people to website Team on GitHub
+
+
+# Topics
+
+- Community Survey:
+    - Engages the community.
+    - What do we want to find out?
+    - Database of Members (PyData has 100k members?)
+    - Identifier Community: Background (Science, Teaching, Industry), potential contributor
+    - Survey should be short and easy to process
+    - Survey can be a two way communication, by introducing things
+    - Offer to send a survey report (hopefully)
+    - Inessa is going to put up a google doc to invite people to ask questions of what we want from the survey.
+
+- Proposal for dropping older Python versions [NEP 29]
+    - Get back to the NEP thread, suggest that some projects will choose to support 3 python versions (and numpy would be one of those)
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+- GSoD will host the project ["Making "The Basics" a Little More Basic: Improving the Introductory NumPy Sections"](https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-numpy)
+    - There will be a kick-off call, writing starts September.
+
+- Duckarray [NEP](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/nep-0030-duck-array-protocol.rst)
+    - Expand the Motivation (potential users) a bit.
+
+- Section in [HOWTO_RELEASE](https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/releasing.html#make-the-release) about sourceforge: is it relevant?
+    - Chuck will have a look at Matti's PR
+    - We are not using Sourceforge any more.  Last Numpy upload there was [3 years ago](https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/), for [Scipy, it was about 4 years ago](https://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/).
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+- Vendor towncrier?
+    - Yes
+    - Put things in to have working release.
+
+- Releases upcoming 1.16.5 (1.17.1 still waiting for feedback):
+    - Sebastian should help with it to get to know the release progress. (1.17.1)
+
+
+## Additional Details
+
+- Matti
+    - Work on activating numpy/doc -> numpy.org/doc as the documentation archive instead of scipy.org/doc
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+- Sebastian
+    - Draft starts: https://hackmd.io/kxuh15QGSjueEKft5SaMug, https://hackmd.io/y7ghitUtRQaMyaHFGe-ueQ
+    - Towncrier
+