[Dune-devel] Online developer/user meeting 2022

[Oliver Sander]

Hi Simon,

thanks for getting this started.  I am all for having another developer meeting,
and such a meeting can be online.  Another user meeting would also be nice,
but I think such a meeting should take place physically somewhere.  After all,
the focus of such a meeting is much more on networking and getting to know
new people, which at least in my experience doesn't work well online at all.

For the developer meeting, I like the general time-frame you proposed.
I could (find somebody to) help with the organization.

Best,
Oliver

On 19.12.21 12:05, Simon Praetorius wrote:
> 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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