[Users] meeting minutes for 2016-06-20

[Roland Haas]

Present: Eloisa, Roland, Frank, Matt, Yosef, 

Alternatives to Google hangout (should we require them):

* at the workshop TeamSpeak was mentioned since it is used by LIGO and
  can handle large numbers of participants with little effort (hundred
  and up to 1000 were used by LIGO)
* an open-source alternative using similar technology (same codec) is
  mumble
* both offer a free-as-in-beer server as long as the number of
  participants is mall (<32 for teamspeak)
* both (should) offer public calls and offer clients for all major OS
* Frank looked into them a bit and will try and see what would be
  involved in hosting a server (at LSU) or also to pay for commercial
  hosting

Report on ET workshop:

* 30 students from around the world
* mostly successful, however still points that need improvement
* Matt request to announce the streaming earlier and to take time zone
  differences into account. Currently it was 7:00am ET. Link to
  recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pGoJ_5gdo
* Bruno will put up the slides for the talks at
  http://events.unitn.it/en/et-eu2016 talks are already present
* major current issue on wishlist is scalability and true AMR when using
  Carpet: 
* a discussion about current and future funding of the ET took place
* future development in GRHydro and general cleanup was discussed

Selected talks:
* EOS framework and con2prim method by Wolfgang Kastaun
* Cosmology applications of the ET by Hayley MacPherson
* the full list is here:
http://events.unitn.it/sites/events.unitn.it/files/download/et-eu2016/ET_WORKSHOP_PROGRAM%20DETAIL.pdf

Brahe release:
* happened during release, please report any issues
* please propose new features for inclusion now so that they can be
  tested before the next release

Yours,
Roland

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