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title: 'PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 May 18 at 18:00 UT'
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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 May 18 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)
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. refactoring of `automodapi`
5. lite-function
6. ...
7. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
8. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 1000](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1000): Paschen Curve
9. Pull requests **MERGED**
    1. [PR 1105](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1105): `automodapi` for PlasmaPy
    2. [PR 1136](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1136): integer_charge → charge_number
    
## Attendees

* Dominik
* Erik
* Nick
* Tiger

## Action Items

***Nick***
* Schedule meeting with Christoph

***Erik**
* Open PR on refactoring `plasmapy_sphinx`

## Minutes

* Erik's refactoring automodapi (need found through lite functions)
* lite functions will go into 2 parts:
    * decorator/usage first
    * docs later
* integrate CSS/templates into the automodapi package?
* neoclassics: found bugs in formulas; pretty devastated atm
* hypothesis has nasty intermittent bug; Dominik has fix planned
* Paschen
    * user excitement!
    * Nick will meet with Christoph to collaborate
    * how to store data?
        * https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1000#issuecomment-788412701
        * similar example, aurora: https://aurora-fusion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#ionization-equilibrium
        * if gas/electrode pair in our database, pull it from it; otherwise, just take quantities
    * 3 parameters; would be nice to have a 3-way (from 2 inputs, calculate 3rd output) function of sorts
        * that's definitely a follow-up, though
    * Should double check the units of the Paschen constants (probably dimensionless)
    * Add a table of constants that we have in the docs, and have it include sources of the data!
* Hack week:
    * paragraph for website in the works
    * gitpod might be better than binder; need to see how resilient it is to losing connection
    * testing session 45-60; Dominik needs to figure out an estimate