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+title: "42nd regular meeting"
+date: 2024-11-06
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+5 ppl attended
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+## General exchange
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+- CAA 2025 conference
+  - Please consider to submit an abstract to our main session on computational interfaces (APIs/DSLs) and advertise it among your colleagues: https://2025.caaconference.org/call-for-papers/session-list/#S52
+  - Nobody has so far taken the initative for the proposed TFQA workshop/hackathon (see the minutes from our previous meeting: https://sslarch.github.io/minutes/2024-10-02), but multiple SIG members have offered to join as participants if it was to happen. Please consider organizing it - the SIG would not leave you hanging
+  - Lisa Steinmann advertised a CAA2025 session on "Comparing the Incomparable: Managing and Analyzing Data from Heterogeneous Sources in Archaeological Research" (https://2025.caaconference.org/call-for-papers/session-list/#S17)
+- Diamond Archaeology
+  - Zack Batist introduced a new website project listing Diamond Open Access journals in Archaeology: https://diamond.open-archaeo.info
+  - Feel free to join the project and the ongoing discussion on how to further develop this resource
+  - The SIG SSLA decided to advertise it on their Mastodon account
+  - Zack also created a new GitHub organization for this and other projects (https://github.com/open-archaeo) to where he eventually also wants to move the repo behind the original open-archeo website (https://open-archaeo.info)
+- Funding sources list
+  - A discussion in a previous meeting (https://sslarch.github.io/minutes/2024-09-04) let to the creation of a list of funding resources for scientific open source software development: https://github.com/orgs/sslarch/discussions/52
+  - As these opportunities are prone to change we decided not to present or organize them beyond the GitHub discussion thread where they currently are
+- Computational Archaeology Discord Community
+  - Reminder that this network exists as well - it is closely related to the goals of the SIG SSLA: https://book.archnetworks.net/#Discord
+- James Allison's LDen
+  - James started the translation work of specific TFQA functions: https://github.com/jallison7/LDen
+  - He asked for feedback on performance issues and multiple SIG members offered to look into the code
+- Dwindling numbers
+  - Attendance at the SIG SSLA meetings is low right now. Ideas to improve that:
+    - Advertise on the Computational Archaeology Discord
+    - Invite back former regulars
+    - Invite more female speakers to our presentation format
+
+## Next SIG Meeting: Wednesday, Dezember 4, 2024
+
+We invited an external speaker, but at the time of writing these minutes we already know that they are not available for this meeting. More information will follow.