Meeting minutes:

Present were: Frank, Roland, Tanja, Bruno, Christian, Peter, Erik, Josh

- planned work over the break: * MHD, EOS (testing, debugging) * beginning of next year: remove EOS_General from GRHydro

- HDF5 (Fortran interface): * currently only used by EOS_Omni * rewrite read-routines in EOS Omni in C to avoid need for Fortran interface if the Fortran interface is a pain to use for people (do we still want to do this?) * make sure building HDF5 works on all machines (see next item)

- env-variables vs. options files vs. command line options * add option ignore-environment to make command to prefer options files options over env variables

- publication list: * use same format as for requested publications (SPIRES key, bibtex)

- create webpage/file to keep track of major changes in between releases (a changelog)

- ET paper: * describe both infrastructure and physics thorns (and a physics example?) * make it a comprehensive paper to serve as a reference in the future * propose to publish in "Computantional Science and Discovery" (by IOP) * physics modules: MacLachlan, GRHydro, TwoPunctures, AHFinderDirect, Isolated Horizon thonrs (QLM?), ... * infrastructure thorns: Carpet, ... * glue modules: ADMBase, HydroBase, ... * need to come up with a list of key components, contact authors of modules to ask them to write a section * decide on author list arrangements: non-alphabetic main-authors first (writing paper, major contributors), then everyone else * will have PI call for this (in part. authors)

- next phone call: Jan 10th unless there is need for an earlier one which would be on Jan 3rd

Yours, Roland