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title: 'PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 05 at 18:00 UT'
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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 05 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. ~~Take meeting cancellation off of www.plasmapy.org~~ done in the meantime ;)
    * 
3. drafting [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
4. 10-15 to roadmap
5. solicit "Project Issue" ideas
6. restructuring of [`plasmapy-project`](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project) repo
7. ...
8. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
9. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 963](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/963): grids #2
    2. [PR 953](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953): `ParticleTracker`
        * needs review...Nick are you claiming this review?
    3. [PR 972](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/972): diamagnetic drive
    4. [PR 971](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/971): ExB notebook
    5. [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/962): Coulomb logarithm naming
    6. [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932): Dispersion
    
## Attendees

* Dominik
* Erik
* Nick
* Archis

## Action Items

***Last Meeting 20201222***
> ***Dominik***
> - [x] link back to discourse from github discussion pages
>     - do we want to do that?
> - [x] do the big migration of meeting notes repo etc etc, with separate meeting directories
>     * this has been done and this is a little test change to see how badly I broke the links
> - [x] update Discourse links to GitHub Discussions (website, RTD, and repo links, README!)
> 
> ***Erik***
> - [ ] need to start summarizing the roadmap from past meetings, this will facilitate future discussions
> - [x] form core Review team of Erik, Nick, and Dominik
> - [ ] Review [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932) Dispersion
> 
> ***Nick***
> - [x] After Erik creates Reviewer Team, assign team to PR 942 as a test run for the process
> - [ ] Create an issue on adding a Jupyter notebook on Coulomb logarithm super magical fun stuff
> - [ ] Review [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/962) give 👍 or 👎 on naming scheme
> - [ ] ~~Think about creating an issue for which default Coulomb logarithm to use~~

***Erik***
* Review grids #2 [PR 963](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/963)
* Review dispersion [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932)
* refine roadmap for next weeks discussion

***Nick***
* Review `ParticleTracker` [PR 953](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953)
* Review [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953)

## Minutes

* [VlaPy](https://github.com/joglekara/VlaPy)
    * looking to incorporate functionality from `plasmapy`
    * collision frequencies...most interested in
    * Archis should open a GitHub discussion so we can converse about interoperabilities
    * [JOSS review of VlaPy](https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2133) (back from May)
    * Dashboard at https://alpha-continuum.ergodic.io/ to run simulations from ("simulation-as-a-service")
* immediate "action items":
    * start doing research with vlapy ;)
    * funding - CSSI tends to prefer universities over small companies;
* `VlaPy` has an [electrostaic dispersion solver](https://github.com/joglekara/VlaPy/blob/master/vlapy/diagnostics/z_function.py) 
