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title: '1st Post-APS-DPP Meeting | November 17, 2020'
tags: [APS, ' minutes']

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# 1st Post-APS-DPP Meeting | November 17, 2020

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### Video Conference Information
* [Zoom video conference link](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91600794594?pwd=L09iTGtTRUN1RmpsVnNvU05LRnNwQT09)
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) 

## Minutes

* Introductions
* Erik: want to create affiliated packages site on plasmapy as a sort of central hub advertising all the awesome packages relevant to plasma community
    * [Link to form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz2djEihWkODbkr1ZC5splkX7ZKLAh_Kuy-aXOngTELIm3xQ/viewform)
    * Not license-restricted; Gkeyll for example has a "open access closed development" model, we can accomodate that
* What connections between the different softwares did you think of?
    * Jimmy: let's get Gkeyll to a point where you can call those solvers from PlasmaPy
    * Nick: common initial/boundary conditions for simulations
    * Andrew: translating between different data formats
    * Gyrokinetics vs MHD: significantly different formats
* types of standards
    * imas
    * openPMD
    * [too many competing ones](https://xkcd.com/927/)
* OMFIT: formulary, Langmuir probe functionality: could be ported over to PlasmaPy?
* Education for open source software
    * Software Carpentry
    * [Princeton has/had *various people :)* teaching software development practices for scientific computing](https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/events/apc-524-mae-506-ast-506-software-engineering-scientific-computing)
* Sterling suggested the possibility of a Hack week at DPP
    * similar to Astro Week (http://astrohackweek.org/2020/) that would take part of DPP
    * NRL interns would be interested in joining (Paul Adamson)
    * possibly more like a summer school
    * maybe do something with the PlasmaPy Workshop funding
* **create a community channel on PlasmaPy's element so we can keep the convo open**

# Chat notes

```
21:51:25	 From Nicholas A Murphy : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kbj-AOd3_NuiA44KAtDhJHRTcMPCVxkhXH8ooWzBSKo/edit?usp=sharing
21:52:25	 From Dominik Stańczak : https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/HkB02obqw/edit
22:09:19	 From Nicholas A Murphy : Posting the minutes doc again: https://hackmd.io/fPhwnAapS_2-dDh-tipK8A
22:15:10	 From David Schaffner : I recommend picking a Pokémon name
22:18:09	 From David Schaffner : Thank you all for joining. I hope there's great discussion!
22:22:28	 From ERIK EVERSON : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz2djEihWkODbkr1ZC5splkX7ZKLAh_Kuy-aXOngTELIm3xQ/viewform
22:23:56	 From Eve Stenson : (still here and listening closely . . . just temporarily turning off video while I chew --- having gotten home from my kid's school's parents' evening a few minutes before the meeting and having not had dinner yet)

22:26:11	 From ERIK EVERSON : https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy.github.io/pull/80
22:27:28	 From Andrew McCubbin : I'll be heading to the same colloquium as JImmy, so will likely participate and listen more on Thursday!
22:34:35	 From Eve Stenson : As with most things, standards make me think of xkcd.  ;)
https://xkcd.com/927/
22:37:15	 From ERIK EVERSON : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plasmapy
22:37:45	 From Jimmy Juno : Have to head to Iowa’s colloquium, but I’m planning on being at the Thursday office hours. It was nice to meet some of you officially!
22:49:21	 From Nicholas A Murphy : https://intersect-training.github.io/
22:51:03	 From Jacob Schwartz : https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/events/apc-524-mae-506-ast-506-software-engineering-scientific-computing
22:51:44	 From Jacob Schwartz : I took it under Robert H. Lupton & Clarence W. Rowley
22:56:15	 From Nicholas A Murphy : http://astrohackweek.org/2020/
23:03:27	 From Jacob Schwartz : https://github.com/WISDEM/WISDEM/blob/8861e200784d8e67b4b93b5b11f25a29be3e595b/wisdem/assemblies/reference_turbines/bar/IEAontology_schema.yaml
23:05:42	 From Paul Adamson : Thanks for organizing this. I’m looking forward to participating
```