[Users] meeting minutes for 2018-04-09

[Erik Schnetter]

Zach

You might want to update the ET web pages to point to this room.

-erik


On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Zach Etienne <zachetie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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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