Minutes from our first meeting

Codename: IWC
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ACTION: Logo
ACTION: write a mission statement out of this document
* Brad and Jen

Best practices
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* encourage good things, prevent bad things
* recommendations
* organizing workflows
* cleaning up published workflows
* what makes a good workflow usable
* annotation of workflows
* ACTION: EVERYONE - define a list of metadata
* linter for workflow metadata, does it fulfill our recommendations
* generic workflows, workflow templates, modules
* example datasets for workflows

Discoverability
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* finding and discover workflows
* central repository
* EDAM
* ACTION: *everyone* please think about it and come up with ideas (e.g. github, myexperiments)
* start with a example repo -> jmchilton/workflow-testing
* spin up a central-repo which is only to link to other repos

User
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* collecting use-cases (ACTION: everyone)
* workflows are not used!!! Figure out why, and fix this, care about the best-practices later
* user evaluation, usability
* workflow language is not our thing - political nonsense
* we should concentrate on the user perspective
* workshops
* testing
* ACTION: documentation testing and running workflows from a command-line
* Brad, with hints John

Diverse
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* recommendation of tools
* tours for workflows
* different more educational view of workflows
* histories are workflows, we should consider this and define guideline when a history is useful and when a workflow is useful
* responsible for the infrastructure, come up with ideas and push this to the core team if we can not implement this on our own
* versioning, provenance of workflows

* ACTION item: `monthly update` could be written. --> Brad and Jen.