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title: 'PlasmaPy Diagnostic Meeting | Monday 2021 May 10 at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET'
tags: [' proton radiography', diagnostics, ' particle tracker', ' minutes']

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# PlasmaPy Diagnostic Meeting | Monday 2021 May 10 at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

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### 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)
    * [Proton Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes/proton_radiography)
* [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)
* GitHub Project: [Line Integrated Diagnostics/Proton Radiography](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/projects/21)

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

1. Introductions
2. GitHub Project: [Line Integrated Diagnostics/Proton Radiography](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/projects/21)
3. ...
4. ...
5. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
6. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 974](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/974) TS fitting
    2. [PR 1098](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1105) "fast" formulary
    3. [PR 1105](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1105) `automodapi` for PlasmaPy
    4. [PR 1123](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1123) Line Integrated Diagnostics initial PR
    5. [PR 1134](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1134) Saving in PRad Module

## Attendees

* Erik
* Peter
* Steve

## Action Items

***Erik***
* choosing a metadata scheme...can we adopt [prdformat](https://github.com/phyzicist/pradformat/tree/main/Python) or is it too young

## Minutes

* **PR 1123**: Path integrated diagnostics
    * path vs. line integrated...path is the ABS class and 
        * path is the ABC class...setup for diagnostic and is agnostic of path
        * line integrated = special cause a linear path
        * proton is now a subclass of "path integrated" and the path is generated with the particle pusher
    * at 95% completion
* **PR 1134** saving radiographs
    * saving results before generating figures
    * no long pickling...this was causing issues when ever the parent class is changed and then used to un-pickle old data
    * dropping `xarray` (because of pickling) and saving data in `npz` files instead
    * could also save using HDF5...benefit of this is that the data stays on disk until directly called
    * Community format [PRadformat](https://scott.cikeys.com/prad/overview/), github repository: [GitHub](https://github.com/phyzicist/pradformat/tree/main/Python). Peter suggests we could implement this format without directly importing the module.
* Thomson scattering
    * PR 1105 is in review now
    * lite-function scheme hashed out...needs writing of documentation and review
