[Users] meeting minutes for 2018-04-09

[Zach Etienne]

Hello all.

With the lack of users on the ETK IRC channel, I propose that we move to
gitter. Unlike IRC, gitter does not require that users be logged in
constantly, and it has been used to great success within the SymPy
community: https://gitter.im/sympy/sympy . By default, you receive email
notifications if someone poses a question directed at you, and notification
settings can be adjusted to be noisier or less noisy as desired. Here's the
gitter Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitter.

I just set up an Einstein Toolkit gitter chat page:

*https://gitter.im/Einstein-Toolkit/Einstein-Toolkit
<https://gitter.im/Einstein-Toolkit/Einstein-Toolkit>*

as well as a Performance Optimization Working Group chat page:

https://gitter.im/Einstein-Toolkit/WG-Performance-Optimization

Additional channels for working groups within the Toolkit can be set up
under the Einstein-Toolkit/ subdirectory. Also, channel administration
privileges can be added/modified as needed.

You can log in to gitter using github or twitter. *Though gitter uses
github credentials, it can also interface with bitbucket repos.* Gitter can
also be accessed via desktop and mobile apps.

Messages in gitter rooms are public, searchable, and stored to the cloud
indefinitely. Also, private one-on-one chats are possible within gitter.

-Zach

*     *     *
Zachariah Etienne
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
West Virginia University
http://math.wvu.edu/~zetienne/

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Present: Roland, Peter, Bhavesh, Zach, Qian,
>
> US ET meeting in ATL:
> * website: http://et-workshop18.physics.gatech.edu/
> * June 18 – June 20, 2018
> * registration page: http://et-workshop18.physics.gatech.edu/register/
> (not yet functional)
> * will send announcements to hyperspace, facebook, Helvi Vitek, Einstein
> Toolkit website (give access to website page to Bhavesh)
>
> wiki site:
> * postpone until next week
>
> new user registration link:
> * we think Frank set this up, so will have to contact him about what
>   could be going wrong. TODO: Peter to contact Frank
>
> missing material on ET website:
> * http://einsteintoolkit.org/mp.html is missing ID files and most links
>   are broken
> * ID files no longer present on server at Caltech
> * Patrick Cheong tried to reproduce the run with current RNSID in ET
>   but failed. Possibly bug in parfile or bug in GRHydro or difference
>   between Whisky_RNSID and RNSID in ET right now. TODO: Roland to ping
>   authors of paper, try to reproduce files with Whisky_RNSID
> * material is hard to find. Suggest to add them to the gallery.
>
> Gallery:
> * suggest to ask authors of ET using papers for submissions to the
>   gallery
>
> ET chat:
> * there is a ET slack which we tried but which seems to have not gotten
>   anywhere
> * similar story for IRC:
> https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=cactus&uio=OT10cnVlde
> * Zach suggests giving https://gitter.im a try which is eg used by
>   sympy: https://gitter.im/sympy/sympy
>
> ET meeting next week: Only if there is interest since it overlaps with
> the APS meeting.
>
> Yours,
> Roland
>
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