2024-12-05 CF Governance Panel meeting

Attendees

Karl, Jonathan, Ethan, Bryan

Agenda/Notes

• Schedule our next meeting (early March?)
  • 13 March 2025 9am MT (backup 11 March)
• Update on AGU award, talk, etc.
• Update on Roadmap activities
  • Discussed three publications
    • Roadmap in ESSD (Roadmap group)
    • Proceedings in BAMS (Workshop organizing committee)
    • Retrospective in EOS (CF Governance Panel)
      • short history of CF - include projects that use CF
      • Also future directions
      • Audience, how broad: EOS, Nature, Science Data, AGU Advances?
      • Timeline: spring/summer next year?
      • Rough outline: History, CMIP, last few years of innovation, roadmap, some figures showing growth of standard names, changes in the data model, method of working. Aim for something with a DOI so maybe not EOS.
• Public comment period
  • Should 3-week rule for significant changes to CF Convention (enhancements?) include broader announcements than in the relevant GH Issue, perhaps as a Discussion?
  • Suggestion: If issue/PR comes from a Discussion, that is a good location to announce the 3-week period.
  • Suggestion: Explicitly mention that an issue has started from a Discussion, subscribe to that issue to follow (or express interest on that issue will also get you all notifications.
  • Similar to when a working group is spun off, mention that decision will be made by work group. Announce and give 3-weeks. (Can’t relitigate issues already decided.)
  • CF Standard Names has 7-day wait period. Too short? Committee will discuss.
• Begin planning for 2025 CF Workshop (virtual)
  • Two part meeting? In-person meetings only? Advantages to virtual in terms of attendance by people that can’t travel.
  • ACTION: Ethan will email 2024 org committee to start discussion
• Using CF with Zarr and how this relates to GeoZarr
  • Related CF issue: #259 (closed)
  • Bryan: NCAS(?) has pure Python implementation of netCDF reader

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