The 2022 Spring Virtual NIAC will be held on March 3rd and 4th, 2022. It aims to provide some decisions and feedback requested by the community. Since it is not the “ordinary” biennial NIAC meeting (which will be held in September), the constitution lays out stricter rules for making decisions:
“Voting outside of the biennial NIAC meetings can take two forms. Firstly, memberships can be approved by email ballot. All other issues require a teleconference for interactive discussion that is attended by at least 2/3 of the NIAC. Votes may be cast at the teleconference, as well as during the following week in order to allow NIAC members not attending the teleconference to add their vote to the tally. The opening of the voting period must be advertised through the NIAC mailing list. At the close of the 1-week voting period, NIAC members not responding are counted as abstained and the NIAC decision follows the voting category (usually “for” and “against”) with the highest number of valid votes.”
Each agenda item should be an issue in the NIAC repository (which should refer/link to issues in other repositories where appropriate) and organised via a github project.
The meeting will consist of 4 sessions over the 3rd and 4th of March, plus a 5th session at least a week later:
| Session | Date and Time | Comment | ||||||||||
| A March 3rd 14:00-16:00 UTC |
| Zoom link ID: 621 7018 8565 passcode: nexus | ||||||||||
| B March 3rd 22:00-24:00 UTC |
| Zoom link ID: 621 7018 8565 passcode: nexus | ||||||||||
| C March 4th 14:00-16:00 UTC |
| Zoom link ID: 646 5018 2627 passcode: nexus | ||||||||||
| D March 4th 22:00-24:00 UTC |
| Zoom link ID: 646 5018 2627 passcode: nexus | ||||||||||
| Final March 15th 14:00-16:00 UTC |
| Zoom link ID: 612 3266 6591 passcode: nexus |
Minutes have been taken here. A chorum was achieved in session C and below is a summary of proposals that were voted on. As per the constitution, voting shall remain open for a week (in practice, until the final session). NIAC members can cast their vote by following the link in the “proposal” column and then adding an emoji reaction (thumbs-up to approve, thumbs-down to reject, or any other amoji to abstain).
| Proposal (link to voting) | Discussion | Implementation | Decision (for/against/abstain) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PURL for NeXus Ontology | PURL for NeXus Ontology | http://purl.org/nexusformat/definitions/ |
Accepted (13/0/0) |
Clarify gain_setting in NXdetector |
Clarify gain_setting in NXdetector | Pull#896 | Accepted (10/0/0) |
Reserve field prefix DECTRIS_ |
Previously reserved, Request | Accepted (14/0/0) |
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Allow strings as dimension labels in NXdata |
Allow NXdata dimension variables to contain a list of strings | Accepted (14/0/0) |
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Add virtual_pixel_correction_applied to NXdetector |
Pull#942 | Pull#942 | Accepted (14/0/0) |
adding depends_on to various base classes |
Pull#999 | Pull#999 | Accepted (13/0/1) |
| Protect main branch of repositories | protected branches docs | Accepted (13/0/0) |
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Add image_key to NXdetector |
Pull#994 | Pull#994 | Accepted (13/0/0) |
Add recommended strings for gain_setting |
Pull#896 | Pull#896 | Accepted (15/0/0) |