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tags: project management, minutes
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# PlasmaPy "Project" Meeting | Wednesday 2021 March 24 at 12:00 PT / 13:00 ET

[](https://hackmd.io/m60OS4pFT6-BM-l4s0E4NA)

### 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
* drafting [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
* [Nick] Can I [Erik] get you to expand on the `Simulation`
* [Status ??]
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. [Status, David] BMC student
5. [Status, Nick & David] clean code & how to contribute videos
6. [Status] Hackathon
* hack.plasmapy.org
* website brainstorming...<https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/HklV-BWNu>
* new logo
7. [Status] public zoom link for meeting
* Do we need a PlasmaPy Zoom account?
8. Self-evaluation based on [ten simple rules paper](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1007296)
9. ...
10. Issues
1. ...
2. ...
11. Pull requests in progress
1. ...

## Attendees

* Erik
* Nick
* David
* Ben

## Action Items

***Erik***
> ***Continuation***
>
> * re-purpose `Plasma-Education` to deploy on RTD
> * add the "Project Issue" framework to the repo
> * add `OMFIT` to affiliated pkgs
> * Sterling has submitted a request
>
* Roadmap
* refine
* start make page for website
* Get `plasmapy-education` up to speed

***Nick***
> ***Continuation***
> * for website make a v0.5.0 news post
> * Create issue on screen reader compatibility for math in PlasmaPy docs
> * look at register.com to see about getting @plasmapy.org email addresses
> * Name for the Zenodo community for DPP mini-conf
> * How to do Zenodo for DPP mini-conf
> * see "Zenodo magic" bullet point below
> * look at register.com to see about getting @plasmapy.org email addresses
* Open an issue on clarifying the "Citation" page on plasmapy.org
* Rough schedule should be complete by mid-March **Hack Week**
* email to Hackathon group for meeting reminder

***David***
> ***Continuation***
> * contact mini-conf contributors about uploading to Zenodo
> * email w/ instructions on how to upload their talks to Zenodo
> * Create new zoom link for "Project" meeting
> * add us as alt. admins (if possible)
> * add waiting room
> * post the newsletter to engage.aps.org & social media
> * see Zenodo bullet under Nick's action items
> * Create a "PlasmaPy Project" public Zoom meeting
> * add us as alt. admins (if possible)
> * add waiting room
> * Will look at zoom account features to see if they meet our needs
> * aiming to make a decision on this in 1 - 2 months
* Upload Nick's DPP contributing video to YouTube.

## Minutes

* Hack Week
* possible logos
* 
* Logo font
* Yanone Kaffeesatz
* https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/383#issuecomment-383213542
* also source for https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-logo/blob/8c3e49c0d803210b41b9d5df05cad68864a2506b/source/logo.svg
* [landing page draft](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasma-hack-week/pull/2/files)
* Topics
* a 2hr discussion on how community interacts with current projects
* framed around topics presented in https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1007296#sec012
* What barriers do new contributions find most frustrating?
* What current projects address these barriers well, or not so much?
* open discussion w/ community members on what hey are liking or not liking
* ...
* research engineering with Python
* ...
* [Hack week toolkit](https://uwescience.github.io/HackWeek-Toolkit/): "information on methods for hosting and facilitating participant-driven data science workshops" with the hack week model