minutes 2026-02-06

Author: SCSchmidt

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+title: "54th regular meeting"
+date: 2026-02-06
+---
+7 ppl attended
+
+## maintainathon recap
+- went well, people extended their code bases, wrote blog posts or did other useful things
+- posts were shared and some conversations took place
+- but: didn't engage ppl outside of our group
+
+- ideas to improve:
+    - maybe have a better outreach
+    - connect with other social media events
+    - maybe more advertisement beforehand
+    - maybe also talk about it outside of social media, maybe ppl didn't feel it was for them
+    - ppl need to see the credit for them: give out stickers? badges?
+    - ask departments and other institutions to join
+    - maybe not just DigiArchMaintainathon, but maintainathon in general?
+    - create SSLA swag, e.g. create stickers which we could send out and hand out at the conference
+    - maybe output is missing? we could link to what people maintained to have a list of outputs
+
+- agreement: primary focus on Mastodon and britching to bluesky is enough
+
+## invited talks
+
+- Martin invited all 6 ppl we gathered last time (see [here](https://sslarch.github.io/minutes/2026-01-09/) )
+- postiive answers:
+    - Dries Daems will give a presentation on NASSA in June (but can be flexible)
+    - Danlu Chen will give a talk in May
+
+- frequency of talks?
+    - every second time, but there will be summer break so up to 4
+    - we want the community feeling of talking with each other
+
+- talk ideas:
+    - someone with information on CRAN / PyPy / package development
+    - Matteo has another colleague who could give a talk on development of "little languages" for a specific task
+- topic of the talks we've invited are more on the side of digital infrastructure
+- ArcheOS (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=archeos) has some new development
+
+- Martin will ask those we had gathered before related to infrastructure anew
+
+
+## Plan for the year
+
+- next time (March): voting on board
+- Meeting in Vienna in person
+- May and June with talks
+- Summer break: July, August
+- September: Plenary Meeting to start preparation for next maintainathon
+- October and December: Presentation meetings
+- November: Plenary Meeting
+
+### CAA Vienna
+
+- we will have an in person meeting at Vienna in April instead of a regular meeting, Matteo will research an idea where to meet
+- we should not do the official SIG SSLA meeting during the conference dinner
+
+## next time: voting on the board
+
+- Martin would like to step down
+- Zack would be able to step up for secretary
+- Matteo thinks about it
+
+- Martin write an email over the email list inviting ppl to write a statement applying for a position at the board
+
+- there are no big rules on it: https://caa-international.org/special-interest-groups/
+
+## what are you working on?
+
+- short tour de table on what projects ppl are working on right now
+