Hello all,

present were: Erik, Frank, Christian, Tanja, Ian, Yosef, Eloisa, Bruno Giacomazzo, Josh, Bruno, Steve

ET seminars: * only single proposal, by Ian Hawke * will ask Ian for presentation, likely not during usual timeslot due to conflicts, will have doodle poll for suitable time (will be in January)

new thorns: * Erik has written infrastructure to have MPI as a thorn in ExternalLibraries * this requires that thorns that explicitly use MPI add a REQUIRE MPI into their configuration.ccl * add NoMPI into this framework * Erik has already submitted the patch for review (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/686 and https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/685 which are prerequisites, a thorn OpenMPI is written but not yet in incoming)

Alpaca: * Steve suggests to present Alpaca at Whist12 (with Oleg managing details): http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~tgamblin/whist-2012/index.html

Simfactory: * Ian, Erik and maybe Barry will (virtually) meet for a bug squashing/ticket closing session. Times to be agreed upon.

Yours, Roland