[Dune-devel] Online developer/user meeting 2022

[Simon Praetorius]

Hi everyone,

I want to bring up a suggestion of Christoph and others to have a 
regular online developer meeting to advance the Dune development, to 
recap what was happening in the last year, to look into the future where 
we want to go and also to get together with the community. A bit more 
than one year ago we started to plan the 2021 meeting. So, let's think 
about the 2022 meeting now, e.g. for the first quarter of the upcoming 
year.

- who want's to organize the meeting? Maybe 2-3 people need to organize 
the technical and organizational aspects, collect the topics, create a 
program, send the invitation and update the website... I would be 
willing to be part of the organizing team.
- when to have the meeting? Maybe like last year at the end of January 
or (at least in Dresden) after the end of the lecture time around mid of 
February. Once a general period is decided, we can create a dudle to 
choose a date.
- do we want to have a pure developer meeting, or is it time to have 
also a user meeting (the last official one was 2018)
- what are topics to discuss? Some suggestions:

     * Python bindings are now enabled by default. There are some open 
issues that need to be discussed
     * New developers for the core developer team? Some others might 
want to be put in the alumni section?
     * Overhaul the linear-algebra part of dune-common (maybe involving 
dune-istl) - there are several issues and proposals regarding this topic.
     * CMake improvements (goes slowly, mainly because I don't dare to 
click on the merge button and some developments need to be tested in a 
larger setup)
     * Future directions and old topics (dunecontrol, duneproject, 
config.h, re-licensing, code-of-conduct, new Dune logo, c++ modules, c++ 
concepts...)
     * Lot's of issues and MRs that could be closed/worked on during the 
meeting
     * Next Dune release 2.9?

Best wishes and have a nice fourth advent.

Simon

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Dr. Simon Praetorius
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Scientific Computing
phone: +49 351 463-34432
mail: simon.praetorius at tu-dresden.de
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