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title: 'PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 September 29 at 18:00 UT'

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# PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 September 29 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. "Office" hours on Oct 7 & 8 (plus going forward)
3. Atomic/nuclear data (follow up from conversation on Matrix?)
4. 
5. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
6. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 796](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/896) - ionization state updates    

## Minutes

* [PR 896](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/896) Quiver velocity
    * near ready for review...just need to expand docstrings and tests
    * the parameters is really a "quiver momentum" so values `>= 1` makes sense
    * reference DOI https://doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2016-001.51
* Ideas about meetins
    * Weekly/Bi-weekly "Office Hours" (Nick is alreay planning this...will start Oct. 7).
    * Monthly PlasmaPy developemnt meeting to keep on and plan roadmap
    * Monthly/Bi-Monthly meetings with field speicialist to discuss needs for field specificy functionality.
* [PR 796](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/896) -- READY FOR REVIEW
* Particle Tracker
    * What is easier to package `cython` vs `Julia`?
        * Nick and I will review in tandem
    * Which is faster.
    * How difficult is it to put Julia in a pip-installed package?
    * Topic came up because crew at BaPSF are looking into developing a Particle Tracker
