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title: 'PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 11 at 19:00 UT'
tags: [community, ' minutes']

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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 11 at 19:00 UT

### Video Conference Information
* [Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/91633383503?pwd=QWNkdHpWeFhrYW1vQy91ODNTVG5Ndz09)
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://app.element.io/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby)
* [GitHub Minutes Repository](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes)
    * ["Community" Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes/_community)
* [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/embed?src=c_sqqq390s24jjfjp3q86pv41pi8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York)

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

1. Introductions
2. 10-15 minutes for [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. Schedule another sprint?
5. Comments from Diagnostic Meeting
6. ...
7. Issues
    1. ...
9. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 1145](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1145): Lite functions Ep. 1
    2. [PR 1308](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1308): Lite functions Ep. 2

## Attendees

* Nick
* Erik
* Tien
* Landry

## Action Items

***Erik***
* Review PR 1362

## Minutes

* Another sprint later this month?
* Have a livestream of our sprints?
    * Maybe do a few sprints first and then try doing this?
    * Could do it on a private/unlisted channel, and then share it if we think it's worth sharing
* Lite functions
    * Regular formulary functions use `astropy.units` and have validations that slow it down
    * Lite functions assume SI inputs and skip validations. 
    * Thomson functionality was really slow because the formulary was slow
* To work on lite functions, it'd be helpful to look through the formulary and find functions that are self-contained, that don't call other functions. 

