[NOTES] add Dev meeting notes form 2021

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-04-01.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 01.04.2021 - PolINSAR Prep
+
+**Present**: Francesco B., Stefanie L., Klaus S., Emanuele G., Alberto A., Mauro M., Michele C., Bjoern R.
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+* website
+* tutorial
+    * first draft ready next week
+* technical
+    * new input output APP for configuration files
+* FTP Server migration
+    * Not suitable for going public for Aresys
+    * migration to MAAP
+    * Data Licensing
+    * Data can change, ideally a flexible space that allows for data updates
+
+
+# Discussion
+* When to go public:
+    * Going Public 19th of April
+    * Discussion of remaining issues on the 22nd of April
+* doc-string and testing
+    * sprint Friday 23rd
+
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+* [ ] Issue: which functions to test (Francesco issue set-up, all devs add functions)
+* [ ] First Tutorial (Francesco, Emanuele)
+* [ ] Docker update (Paolo)
+* [ ] Testing Sprint initialization (Stefanie)
+* [ ] Adding content to Website (Klaus & all)
+
+# Next Meeting: 15.04.2021
+
+
+**[Link to all meeting notes](https://github.com/BioPAL/community)**

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-06-03.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 03.06.2021
+
+**Present**: Francesco, Stefanie, Clement, Emanuele
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+* Welcome Romain
+* 4 new users requesting access to data
+* creation of issues for minor and major fixes
+* testing and continuous integration
+* tutorials for other modules
+    * more feedback for FD tutorial
+
+# Discussion
+* BioPAL Activity
+    * refactoring
+    * PolINSAR Preparation (website, tutorial)
+    * Starting to integrate tests
+    * new users
+* BTK/ BPS/ BioPAL discussion needed
+
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+- [ ] discussion on meeting shedule
+
+# Next Meeting: 17.06.2021
+
+
+**[Link to all meeting notes](https://github.com/BioPAL/community)**

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-06-17.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 17th june 2021
+
+**Present**: Francesco, Emanuele, Stefanie, Michele, Alberto, Mauro, Paolo
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+- Documentation and Sphinx (Mauro)
+    - How to cross link chapters?
+    - Rules on Flow diagrams
+- Definition on Forest Disturbance
+    - Definition/ Design of Algorithm and Testing
+    - Definition of Dataset
+    - PR on Tutorial only introduction part needs to be updated
+- 
+
+# Discussion
+- Documentation and Sphinx (Mauro)
+    - How to cross link chapters?
+    - Rules on Flow diagrams
+- the way forward
+    - Packaging and Distribution 
+        - pip release and developer installation by end of July
+    - Documentation and streamlining source code
+        - ongoing
+    - Data io API:
+        - more dicussion needed, see dedicated GitHub issue
+    - Continuous integration and testing:
+        - Decision to only merge PR's with core functionality documented and tested
+
+
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+* [ ] meeting for packaging and installation (Francesco, Emanuele, Stefanie)
+* [ ] FH Tutorial date (Romain)
+* [ ] Change Analysis Tutorial (Alberto): 01.08.2020
+* [ ] GitHub issue collecting ideas for read_data wrapper (Aresys)
+* [ ] meeting discussing data wrapper functionality
+
+# Next Meeting: 01.07.2021
+
+
+**[Link to all meeting notes](https://github.com/BioPAL/community)**

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-07-01.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 01.07.2021 
+
+**Present**: Klaus, Mauro, Alberto, Paolo, Francesco, Roman, Michele, Emanuele
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+* Welcome Romain
+    * Forest Height estimation implementing tomographic profiles
+* recap CCN & BioPAL
+    * One objective is to design an interface to ingest tomographic profile information, to help model inversion in inteferometric phase
+    * comparison and revision for the tomographic phase of the mission
+    * Documentation in Markdown attached to online documentation & BioPAL repository
+    * documentation, testing and modularity
+* pip install
+    * min required Python version now 3.7
+    * `pip install` now possible
+* focus on lower level apps development
+
+# Discussion
+* FNF classification with simpler interface due to algorithm redefinition (further discussion in CNN july 15th)
+* FD tutorial by 01.08.2021
+* Documentation (Mauro):
+    * compiling documentation with Sphinx
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+- [ ] dedicated chat on data io refactoring
+- [ ] set up and test BioPAL on data (Romain)
+- [ ] review of pip installation PR (Stefanie)
+- [ ] September
+
+# Next Meeting: 15.07.2021
+
+
+**[Link to all meeting notes](https://github.com/BioPAL/community)**

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-09-23.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 23.09.2021
+
+**Present**: Klaus, Michele, Emanuele, Francesco, Mauro, Roman, Stefanie
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+* FOSS4G presentation next week
+* pip installation possible soon
+* new wrapper for handling the input data
+
+
+# Discussion
+* Release:
+    * BTK & BPS releases still in design phase currently not influencing BioPAL release shedules, not before November
+    * Releases every year pre-launch, every 6 months once Biomass data becomes available and bug driven fixes
+    * formal release v0.1 for CDR beginning of February timed with BioPAL release
+* Notch update:
+    * Documentation and ICB document
+    * Algorithm development on geocoding related to volumetric products (Space Varying Notch), will soon be implemented. First results suggest new functionality includes bias and may not be an improvement
+* Much work on Documentation has been done during summer, will be updated 
+* encouraging contributions:
+    * opening issues 2-3 points per team with tagged person to help
+    * pointer on website to issues
+    * long term contributions on website
+    * stackoverflow integration
+
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+* [x] wrapper for data handling finished next meeting
+* [x] Pip rc release
+* [ ] each team make issues with points for contributions by outsiders
+* [ ] integration of larger topics on website
+
+# Next Meeting: 21 October 2021
+
+
+**[Link to all meeting notes](https://github.com/BioPAL/community)**

00_dev_meetings/dev-2021-10-21.md

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+# # BioPAL Agenda - 21.10.2021
+
+**Present**: Klaus, Emanuele, Michele, Stefanie, Francesco, Clement, Paolo, 
+
+## Agenda
+1. Updates
+2. Discussion
+4. Other
+
+
+# Updates
+- [x] pip release
+    - current 0.2.0rc 
+    - roadmap template to get to 1.0.0
+    - includes biopal-quickstart
+- [x] wrapper functionality
+    - includes build in plotting functions
+    - simplifyied reading of Input data
+- [x] issues on github
+- Documentation update with numpydoc style
+
+
+# Discussion
+- BioPAL & MAAP interface
+    - conversation with Capgemini on build from Docker
+- Data interface to 'MAAP provided data'
+    - migration towards new format for next BPS round
+    - currenlty migration to intermediate format
+- CI & CD
+
+### Proposed action Items:
+- [ ] Documentation upload on readthedocs
+- [ ] Documentation integration on website
+- [ ] Documentation on minimum requirements
+- [ ] larger contribution ideas on website
+- [ ] CI & CD check by end of January 2022 with github actions or similar
+- [ ] BioPAL integration on MAAP
+
+
+# Next Meeting: 18.11.2021
+