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title: 'PlasmaPy "Project" Meeting | Wednesday 2021 August 11 at 12:00 PT / 13:00 ET'
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# PlasmaPy "Project" Meeting | Wednesday 2021 August 11 at 12:00 PT / 13:00 ET

### Video Conference Information
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://element.im/app/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby)
* [GitHub Minutes Repository](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes)
    * ["Project" Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes/_project)
* [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. 10-15 minutes of [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. Release of `v0.7.0`
5. Recordings from Hack Week
6. CSSI annual report
8. Engage forum post on data environment
7. Debrief from [MagNetUS meeting](https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/magnetus2021/home/registration?authuser=0) 
    1. What are our next steps?
10. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
11. Pull requests in progress 
    1. ...
12. Pull requests **MERGED**
    1. ...

## Attendees

* Erik
* Nick
* Ben
* Steve

## Action Items

***Person***
* ...

## Minutes

* Holding off on `v0.7.0` release for a bit longer for proton radiography patch
    * Could hold off until next quarter
    * Maybe a release every 4 months would be most reasonable
    * Next release needs to include PR 1173
    * Maybe unfreeze the feature freeze on a case-by-case basis until 1173 is done
    * PR 1134 adding a feature to allow for better saving
    * PR 1123? 1124? would be nice to get in
* Hack Week vids
    * Erik has made NO progress :(
    * ...
* Annual Report
    * maybe organize a group meeting with out Grant officer to introduce ourselves
    * **Still schedule in earnest to start writing the report Sept. 1st**
        * Nick has started the documents already though
        * See the private google drive
    * How to query GitHub to get metrics?
        * GitHub has a REST API
            * https://docs.github.com/en/rest
        * PyGithub is a python package that leverages the REST API
            * https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub
            * https://pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
    * How to query metrics from PyPI and Conda?
        * https://pypistats.org/packages/plasmapy
        * https://pypistats.org/api/
    * Should create a metic form so we know what to grab each year
* [APS Engage forum data environment](https://engage.aps.org/dpp/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=769&MessageKey=952b8307-c829-4f96-a829-3c88ae29042c&CommunityKey=bc7f21e7-ad44-4834-a83a-6eed2f30a2cf&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2fdpp%2fbrowse%2fallrecentposts_)
    * Nick tried to get a discussion started on how to make data (FAIR) Findable and Accessible... Interoperable Reusable
    * Not a role for PlasmaPy put to be on our radar
    * Should ask around to figure out the history of NASA open data policies.  How did this get started?  How did CDF files come into existence as a standard?  How much resistance was there?
    * Need a huge amount of infrastructure to make this happen.  Would need dedicated funding.
* [MagNetUS meeting](https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/magnetus2021/home/registration?authuser=0) was last week.  Steve & David attended in person; Nick was hanging out on Slack talking about open metadata standards.
    * MagNetUS came from a specific recommendation of the DPP-CPP report and the FESAC Long Range Planning report
    * Some of the wording may have been more DOE specific
    * Would it be worth us planning a meeting with labs?  To help find out what would be useful in PlasmaPy for them.
 