-<meta name=description content="A special interest group of [CAA International](https://caa-international.org/) dedicated to scientific scripting languages in archaeology."><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><meta charset=UTF-8><link rel=stylesheet href=https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.5.1/css/all.min.css integrity="sha512-DTOQO9RWCH3ppGqcWaEA1BIZOC6xxalwEsw9c2QQeAIftl+Vegovlnee1c9QX4TctnWMn13TZye+giMm8e2LwA==" crossorigin=anonymous referrerpolicy=no-referrer><link rel=stylesheet href=https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/academicons/1.9.4/css/academicons.min.css integrity="sha512-IW0nhlW5MgNydsXJO40En2EoCkTTjZhI3yuODrZIc8cQ4h1XcF53PsqDHa09NqnkXuIe0Oiyyj171BqZFwISBw==" crossorigin=anonymous referrerpolicy=no-referrer><link rel=stylesheet href=https://sslarch.github.io/css/palettes/caa-ssla.css><link rel=stylesheet href=https://sslarch.github.io/css/risotto.css><link rel=stylesheet href=https://sslarch.github.io/css/custom.css></head><body><div class=page><header class=page__header><nav class="page__nav main-nav"><ul><li class=nomarker><h1 class=page__logo><a href=https://sslarch.github.io/ class=page__logo-inner>CAA/SSLA</a></h1></li><li class=main-nav__item><a class=nav-main-item href=https://sslarch.github.io/about title>About</a></li><li class=main-nav__item><a class=nav-main-item href=https://sslarch.github.io/documents/ title=Documents>Documents</a></li><li class=main-nav__item><a class=nav-main-item href=https://sslarch.github.io/members/ title=Members>Members</a></li><li class=main-nav__item><a class="nav-main-item active" href=https://sslarch.github.io/minutes/ title=Minutes>Minutes</a></li><li class=main-nav__item><a class=nav-main-item href=https://sslarch.github.io/sessions/ title=Sessions>Sessions</a></li></ul></nav></header><section class=page__body><header class=content__header><h1>47th regular meeting</h1></header><div class=content__body><p>6 people attending</p><h2 id=ester-project-by-martin>ESTER-project by Martin:</h2><ul><li><a href=https://ester-project.org/>https://ester-project.org/</a></li><li>will start in September in Kiel</li><li>aims to calculate popilation densities with Bayesian statistics</li><li>his job advert has been prolonged to end of May: <a href=https://ester-project.org/2025/05/01/were-hiring-join-the-ester-project-team/>https://ester-project.org/2025/05/01/were-hiring-join-the-ester-project-team/</a></li></ul><h2 id=caa>CAA:</h2><ul><li><p>meeting of SIG boards/representatives may not take place (SSLA seem to the most continouus active)</p></li><li><p>SIG SSLA meeting at CAA on Wednesday evening</p><ul><li>place: <a href=https://maps.app.goo.gl/shwMwuVhJWyVg6bE6>https://maps.app.goo.gl/shwMwuVhJWyVg6bE6</a></li><li>after conference AGM</li><li>time: 7:30 pm</li></ul></li><li><p>CAA 2026 probably in Vienna (online poll, was only option)</p></li><li><p>Lisa Steinmanns talk about APIs at DAI will be interesting, focused on showcasing what hopefully will happen with API-access</p></li></ul><h2 id=updates-regarding-next-meetings>Updates regarding next meetings:</h2><ul><li><p>Zack will take over the Summer Meetings June-August</p><ul><li><p>do we want to change date / time?</p><ul><li>Matteo would like to do another day than Friday in June</li><li>Shawn needs to reply, whether he has time on Friday</li><li>Martin forwards the email to Zack, who then can continue discussion</li></ul></li><li><p>do a poll for July</p></li></ul></li><li><p>meeting after summer:</p><ul><li>Emily Coco in September</li><li>Gabriele in October: MAPA project (AI related)</li></ul></li><li><p>idea: do another joint SIG meeting?</p><ul><li>maybe if there’s a SIG heads meeting, we can discuss this for a late summer meeting</li><li>(we had a meeting with Little Minions and a meeting with Rchaeology)</li></ul></li></ul><h2 id=discussion>Discussion:</h2><ul><li><p>paper about maintenance of open source code: <a href=https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18971>https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18971</a></p><ul><li>epidemiology / biology: baseline for coding known by many, but doesn’t mean it is maintained.</li><li>archaeology has maybe more of an attitude based on sharing code and data (because all is modelling anyway)</li><li>linked to expectation of being picked up by industry<ul><li>Zack: Canada happens rarely, but sometimes there is a spin off from research that works with the code developed from research</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p>archeo riddle: paper is out now: <a href=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000287>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000287</a></p><ul><li>sadly only 5 participants</li><li>the idea was great, we should have this more often</li></ul></li><li><p>Maybe we could have some kind of competition or interaction like this as well?</p><ul><li><p>examples
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