[Users] Meeting minutes for 2025-02-06

[Lucas Timotheo Sanches]

Present: Lucas (Minutes), Steven R. Brandt, Peter Diener, Roland Hass (chair),
Maxwell Rizzo, Zachariah Etienne.

# Pre agenda topics

- Steve inquired about the dates for the various Einstein Toolkit meetings.
  Roland has information on the following:
    1. The European Einstein Toolkit meeting should to take place on July 7-11
       at Southampton, in England
    2. The North America Einstein Toolkit meeting should take place at
       UT - Austin, in early June.
    3. The Annual Einstein Toolkit / CarpetX hackathon and working workshop
       will take place in the summer. The precise date will be discussed during
       the next PI meeting for the Einstein Toolkit grant, which should take
       place in Feb.

# Upcoming release possible inclusions

- Z4C: No progress was reported.
- BHaHAHA horizon finder: Zach says he will report results obtained with the
  code and with the Einstein Toolkit in the next APS meeting, in March.
- CCE code to hook up to Spectre: No progress to report, but the developers
  began having weekly meetings for discussing the code.
- FLRWSolver modules: No new information to report. Roland will ask Hayley if
  she has a reviewer in mind.
- Gallery example for Canuda (Axi-dilaton): Deborah pushed the last few
  required changes. With this, Lucas reports the example to be done and
  good to go.
- Gallery examples for Canuda (Cheng-Hsin), Fishbone-Moncrief, IGM, GRHayL and
  others (Roland Hass), will probably be postponed.
- Roland reports that he will work to give Maxwell Rizzo access to the various
  repositories needed for the release.

# Mailing list questions

- A student, Valdir Márcio Sena Vitalino reports having difficulties
  installing on Windows 11. The student seems unable to communicate in English
  and speaks Portuguese. Despite Roland's efforts to provide him with a
  translated Jupyter notebook. Lucas has agreed to talk to him and guide him
  through the installation process.

# Tickets ready for review

- 2851: Roland provided a working fix, and asked for people familiar with Cray
  pointers to take a look. Peter says it may not be bad, so Roland will push it.

# Tickets up for review

- These were the same tickets as in the previous section. Since there were no
  new updates on them, nothing was discussed.

# Extra stuff

- Next week we will be querying when exactly the various meetings will take
  place.