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title: 'PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 November 17 at 18:00 UT'

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# PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 November 17 at 18:00 UT

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### Video Conference Information
* [Jitsi video conference link](https://meet.jit.si/plasmapy) with [call-in information](https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=plasmapy) 
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby)
* [PlasmaPy google directory](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPMEIxTlZLZjdjYms?usp=sharing) ([minutes/agendas](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPV1FQUEkzMTgtRTg?usp=sharing), [documents](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPYzk2TEhTa1N6R0U?usp=sharing))
* [PlasmaPy on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy) ([pull requests](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/pulls), [issues](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/issues))
* [PlasmaPy Enhancement Proposals on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-PLEPs)  
* [PlasmaPy Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=bzVsb3ZkcW0zaWxsam00ZTlrMDd2cmw5bWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)

## Agenda (please feel free to edit or add items)

1. Introductions
2. Post-APS-DPP cool-off, post-mortem
3. Three + 3/4 Minutes Rage at Bravura
4. Subsequent videos (might save for CSSI mtg)
    1. How to contribute 
5. ...
6. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
7. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR #932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932): Dispersion
    2. [PR #909](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909): Grids & Fields
    

## Minutes

* How to contribute
    * should do a webinar and recorded it
    * then the recording can be placed on YouTube
    * Contributing Docs on RTD need to be updated as well
* selecting PR to prioritize for the next week
    1. Dispersion [PR #932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932)
    1. **[Dominik]** will look at Peter's Grid & Fields [PR #909](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909)
* Roadmapping for 2021
    * [Erik] will create a brainstorming doc on hackmd
    * outline features & prioritize for 2021
    * Spend 10-15 mins in both the community meeting and CSSI meeting
        * Community would focus on code
        * CSSI would focus on outreach, YouTube videos, educational resources, etc.
    * 2021 should focus on devivery functionality
    * ideas:
        * create a webinar on contributing, record it, and post to YouTube
        * forming working groups
        * outline functionality for each sub-package
        * numba-fying functionality
        * a week long Hackathon (this came up in the DPP 1st followup meeting)...maybe more for 2022
        * defining metadata standards (Jimmy and Andrew from [gkeyll](https://gkeyll.readthedocs.io/en/latest/))
        * setup `*@plasmapy.org` email addresses...maybe include different email groups (e.g. `afiliated_pkgs@plasmapy.org`) so we can send out info to specific groups

