[NeXus-committee] Final NIAC 2026 details (Sept 25th-27th)

[Aaron Brewster]

Hi folks, the NOBUGS Indico website has gone protected since the larger
conference has started uploading slides.  Here's the access code:

nobugs2026

-Aaron

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM Aaron Brewster <asbrewster at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Hi folks, getting close!  I've updated our webpage with the time zones,
> the Zoom link for remote attendees, and the program schedule for the public
> sessions on the 25th:
>
> https://www.nexusformat.org/NIAC2026.html
>
> Take a look and let me know if you have questions or changes.  *Don't
> forget to invite your NeXus communities to the public session!*  Also,
> registration is closed for onsite attendance, but if you haven't registered
> for onsite attendence, send an email to the organizers.  I expect it can be
> arranged.
>
> In the meantime, we had our code camp this week and our two sub-committees
> on contributed definitions and pull requests have been hard at work.  This
> is the list of pull requests to review before the meeting that we know
> for sure we want to get to a vote during our full-day sessions on the 26th
> and 27th:
>
>    - Add NXmirror and NXslit below NXmonochromator- #1331
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1331>
>    - Application Definitions and base classes for SPM family- #1632
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1632>
>    - NXcxi_ptycho: promote to applications- #1646
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1646>
>    - Add NXenvironment to NXinstrument- #1327
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1327>
>    - Add a description field to the NXsensor group- #1330
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1330>
>    - Move NXregion to base classes- #1653
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1653>
>    - Update NX component description field- #1654
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1654>
>
> The NIAC 2026 project management page is here:
> https://github.com/orgs/nexusformat/projects/6/views/1
>
> You may wish to look there send me any of your topics/PRs beyond these,
> which will set the agenda.  For example, these I know I'd like to see
> discussed during the meeting:
>
>    - Add target attribute to NXobject using new field super-type- #1558
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1558> (follow up to
>    #1410 <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1410>).
>    - Bit depth image- #1284
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1284>
>    - Math support in NeXus- #711
>    <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/711>
>
> The contributed definitions list is here: Campaign 2026: Promote
> contributed definitions to applications/base_classes #1639
> <https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/1639>.  There is a
> great deal of history and information that has been collected there for
> review, along with some action items we'll address during the meeting.
> Take a look!
>
> Thanks all!
> -Aaron and Sandor
>
>
>
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