[Users] meeting minutes for 2018-12-03

[Bill Gabella]

Present: Steve, Peter, Zach, Samuel, Antoni Ramos, Bill (taking minutes)

LORENE2:
* no Roland, no report (see below)

WVUThorns:
* Zach reported.  He has a small-ish but not well understood LORENE2 
initial data from his collaborator, has permissions to use it.
* Working with Josh Faber (RIT) who is using LORENE2 for binary NS 
mergers, will have another small initial data set from him.
* Discussion of a possible problem in LORENE2, a bug, that may make it 
incorrect.  In the translation from French to English a subroutine was 
not translated.  Also the LORENE1 initial data may not be 
useful/readable in LORENE2.
* Because of this Zach and Steve recommend proceeding with caution.  
Last week the conclusion had been to replace LORENE1 with LORENE2...now 
not recommended until this is understood/explored further.

BNS gallery example:
* no progress

TRAC update:
* Migration to BitBucket
* no report

ET Infrastructure Presentations:
* Will be next week, 10 December 2018 during the phone meeting.
* As listed in the minutes for 2018-11-26, the nominal agenda/topics and 
presenters are:
* website: Steve
* wiki: Steve
* trac: Steve
* svn: Steve / Peter
* Jenkins: Roland
* mailing lists: Steve
* tutorial server: Roland
* repos on bitbucket: Roland
* repos on github: Roland
* release process: Steve / Roland

next release:
* Need name of famous scientists, male and female, and should be 
deceased.  Would like to compile a list, so send in your and your 
colleagues suggestions.  Nominally the next name should be a male...not 
set in stone.
* Annie Jump Cannon was listed, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon.

fyi, bill e.g.

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William Gabella
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN  USA

b.gabella at vanderbilt.edu
(o) 615-343-2713