Date: Nov, 16 Topics: how do we manage OpenPIV better and how do we coordinate future developments Participants Peter, Theo, Roi, Hadar, Alex Discussion Peter: Java is maybe too complex we can learn from it. Python is maybe more welcoming to the new users. GUI in Tk

We need to talk to the developers and decide where we are moving, what are our goals, wishes and ideas. OpenPIV - Python, where is the Matlab one? Personally I (@alexlib) do not believe we can support for a long time both Matlab and Python versions. I suggest to focus on the Python one. For MATLAB users, there are already a plenty of PIV solutions (MatPIV, PIVmat, PIVlab, ...) A MATLAB toolbox can only be truly open-source, if it is 100 % compatible to OCTAVE. This is hard to archieve and alomost impossible to maintain, because code incompatible with OCTAVE will permanently sneak in by contributors, that only use MATLAB and don't test their code with OCTAVE. Python is more versatile, e.g. running not only as a script or in an interactive terminal, but also in environments like Jupyter or Streamlit. Deployment is simple (conda, pip). No dependency on commercial packages.