# Visual-tools meeting 1 -- summary & video
**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-1-summary-video/8617
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**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-1-summary-video/8617 "2022-02-07T23:29:16Z")
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-1-summary-video/8617/1 "2022-02-07T23:29:16Z")
# visual-tools meeting 1 – summary & video
Last Friday, 14 of us joined the first meeting of a new dev & user group: **the visual-tools group**.
The goal of the group is to create collaborations around learning and building Clojure tools for data visualization and literate programming.
The group and the first meeting emerged in a thinking process lead by @Lukas_Domagala & @prnc, following [a previous meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqb4XlFI-08) around similar topics we had on Dec. 5th.
## Agenda
- Six participants gave short updates and presentations about their projects: David Omre - Sidebar; @mauricioszabo - Chlorine, Clover; @djblue - Portal; Adrian Smith - Viscous; @Lukas_Domagala - omni-trace; @jsa-aerial - Saite.
- We had a discussion of the group’s goals and ways of collaboration.
## Recording
As often happens, the best part of the conversation took place after we stopped recording. Here is the recorded part:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtOjpokGpw)
## Notes & resources
We will organize our knowledge in some common documents. Comments and contributions are welcome.
- @prnc created [a resources folder](https://bit.ly/clj-visual-tools-resources)
- @prnc’s took [notes from the presentations](https://bit.ly/clj-visual-tools-meeting-1-notes).
- @prnc’s used [a spreadsheet](https://bit.ly/clj-visual-tools-landscape) to guide our brainstorming and start mapping the landscape. The spreadsheet lists ideas and also offers a matrix of (tools)x(aspects).
## Next meetings
We are planning to have sessions of the following kinds:
- all-hands gathering (monthly)
- ad-hoc meetings
- around subgroup topics, such as compatibility conventions – could become more regular as subgroups emerge
- around learning the internals of tools
- workshops/interviews/demos of tools for the user audience
The next time we meet will be on [Saturday, Feb. 19th, 16:00 UTC](https://time.is/1600_19_Feb_in_UTC/). We will focus on **compatibility across tools** , with @vlaaad, Adrian Smith, @Lukas_Domagala, @djblue, and more friends. Everybody is invited.
More details will be announced soon.
## Will you join us?
Please reach out if you are interested in this.
It is recommended to follow the [#visual-tools Zulip stream](https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/313390-visual-tools/) and the Slack channel of the same name.
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### Author:  [@system](https://clojureverse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-1-summary-video/8617/2 "2022-08-09T11:29:26Z")
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