Meeting 1

Information

• Date: Monday, September 26th 11AM - 12PM Pacific time (click for your timezone)
• Zoom Link (sign in required): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96628687450?pwd=Q29oeDc5NnJEYlFHVU1yVUFITzNQUT09

Participants

• Hameer Abbasi
• Nezar Abdennur
• Ross Barnowski
• CJ Carey
• Jérémie du Boisberranger
• Julien Jerphanion
• Jim Kitchen
• Jarrod Millman
• Dan Schult
• Stéfan van der Walt
• Isaac Virshup
• Erik Welch
• Meekail Zain

Agenda

The summit is scheduled for 1 hour and will consist of a series of high-level birds-of-a-feather (BoF)-style talks, followed by more focused discussion.

1. (5 min) Welcome & Introductions (Jarrod Millman)

2. (20 min) BoF Presentations (4 min each)

   • Dan Schult: Proposal for array semantics in scipy.sparse (download)
   • Hameer Abbasi: PyData/Sparse – Future Plans (download)
   • Jim Kitchen: needs/roles of sparse in GraphBLAS
   • Isaac Virshup: needs/roles of sparse in scverse
   • Julien Jerphanion: Usage and needs for sparse data in scikit-learn (download)

3. (30 min) Discussion

4. (5 min) Wrap up and next steps