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title: 'PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 July 06 at 18:00 UT'
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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 July 06 at 18:00 UT

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### Video Conference Information
* [Jitsi video conference link](https://meet.jit.si/plasmapy) with [call-in information](https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=plasmapy) 
* 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?cid=bzVsb3ZkcW0zaWxsam00ZTlrMDd2cmw5bWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)

## 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. ...
5. ...
6. ...
7. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
8. Pull requests in progress 
    1. ...
9. Pull requests **MERGED**
    1. ...
    
## Attendees

* Shane
* Dominik
* Erik
* Ramiz
* Elliot

## Action Items

***Person***
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## Minutes

* Hack week
    * Dominik volunteering to cut videos
    * needs zoom cloud access?
* Dispersion stuff
    * Last meeting was Jan. 21, 2021... <https://hackmd.io/-sOYoV4lQkim2rKfrAsQUQ>
    * Questions on getting started?
    * ATM: a few equations from Bellan; approximate dispersion relation equations
    * Last time: we had exact solution
    * (numerical) 'solvers' (analytical) and 'solutions'
    * One 'DispersionSolver' class
    * Game plan: get analytical Bellan solutions as a practice run
    * Erik setting up a when2meet for a bi-weekly dispersion meeting
    * Post hack week tutorial to youtube in the coming weeks as a reference?
    * Discussion on IDEs, linters and why not to stress out about them too too much!
    * Early PRs are helpful - the earlier you get a necessary rewrite pointed out to you, the better!
    * [Refined GitHub plugin for Chrome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github)
* Release v0.7.0
    * shoot for the week of 7/12 or 7/19...still to be decided though