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

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Zachariah Etienne
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
West Virginia University

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Roland Haas <rhaas@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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