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title: 06/05/2021 Tudat Meeting

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# 06/05/2021 Tudat Meeting


## Agenda 📋

### API Consolidation

- The current system of how API docstrings are maintained.
- The proposed high level flow for the proposed API maintenance.
- The proposed data structure for the API declaration.
- The implications on the source code of `tudat` and `tudatpy`.
- The complete end to end overview of the proposed system.

### Open-source funding

- The imporance of open-source funding in our context.
    - Encourage a transparent, democratic, fiscally empowered community platform for expert research and education.
    - Aleviate tensions on faculty members for lobbying for funding for `tudat` related development, education or research.
    - Potentially fund entire PhD's based on the desires and needs of the `tudat-space` community.


- Key players in open-source funding to help realise funding.
    - GitHub sponsers
    - Open-collective
    - NumFocus

- What are common contribution tiers for open-source funding and how would we approach it?


### Our identity

- Tudat Team?
- Tudat Space?

## Minutes 🕙

- DD: it is hard to write documentation in one place while developing in another place.
- GG: 
- JE: why can't we extract docstrings from C++?
- GG: Because we want students to be able to modify docs and Python docs are more feature-rich.
- GG: 


## Action Items ✔️


## Parking Lot 🚗
