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# PlasmaPy Newsletter February 2022

## Newsletter Categories

### Opening Letter
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### News and Annoucements
* Streaming Code Development Session via YouTube Live
* Preparation for next Plasma Hack Week ~June 2022
* `0.7.0` release
    * Consider updating Python 3.10, as this will have improved error messages
* Plans for `0.8.0`
    * Thomson Fitting
    * Lite-Functions
    * Updated deposition stack for Radiography
    * Hollweg dispersion solver
    * ?? Maybe Stix dispersion solver ??
    * New notebooks
* Next Hack Week Organization

### Code Development Highlights
* Updates to contributor guide (testing, docs, changelogs)
* [Nick] Cold plasma S D P solver thing
* Past topics
    * Unit Wrangling (i.e. unit validations) and Hz converstion
    * Particle class
* Possible topics
    * Dispersion (two_fluid or Hollweg)
    * Formulary aliases
    * Cold plasma SDP solver
    * Lite-functions (when more developed)
    * Thomson Fitting (when PR 974 is merged and released)
    * Radiograph Stacks (when PR 1274 is merged & released)
    * New Swept Langmuir (not sure when appropriate)
    * Finding issues to contribute to

### Community Events and Engagement
* Computational Workshop for Students (https://compmethods0.wixsite.com/computationalmethods)
* Working groups 
    * Highlight results from working groups
    * Possible creation of Transport working group
* Introduction to Plasma Physics for Undergraduate students (https://smallcollegeplasma.org/virtual-introduction-to-plasma-physics/)
* Mention of Small College Plasma Consortium

### Advertise Community Packages
* Start wth `bapsflib`
* Request developers to submit their own pkgs
    * register to https://www.plasmapy.org/affiliates/
    * Ask to be included in the next newsletter

### Feedback and Surveys
* Updated 2022 survey!!
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### Acknowledgements
* https://docs.plasmapy.org/en/latest/whatsnew/0.7.0.html#
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### Links and Social Media
