[Dune-devel] DUNE dev (and user?) Meeting 2026: Please provide impossible weeks.

[Simon Praetorius]

Hi Markus,

thanks for pushing the organization of the meeting. I would love to meet 
since there are a couple of questions/topics we cannot cover in gitlab 
issues/MRs or the mailinglist. But the topics are the second/third part 
of the process. Lets find a date first.

For me the Semester break would in general be the best time, but for the 
winter break in Feb. there are already several weeks blocked, e.g. the 
first Feb week (1.2.-8.2.) I am on conference. Then the examination 
period starts and it is a bit complicated to find a week were I am 
completely available. March is fine, except for the week (15.3.-20.3.). 
Then the semester (lectures) start at Apr. 13, and go until July 25. 
There would only be the Pfingstferien. The first 3 weeks of Aug. are 
again examination times (there I cannot tell now which weeks are blocked)

In summary, my available times:

Mar 1 - Mar 14
Mar 22 - Apr 12
Jul 25 - Oct 10 (maybe some exceptions with examinations and vacation)

This is just a very broad overview. I might be available for short time 
visits in not-so-far away locations as well.

Best,
Simon

Am 04.12.25 um 09:42 schrieb Markus Blatt:
> Hi,
>
> It has been a while since the last one and somehow the attempt to have 
> one last year was not successful.
>
> I would hope that we manage to organize one this year.
>
> I think we should not focus on a location, but first try to settle on 
> date/week that everybody is available
> and the settle on a conveniently reachable location. Here we should 
> not be constrained by locations where devs
> are working, but also consider renting a venue (my companies can pay 
> that).
>
> As a first step every developer should tell which weeks are definitely 
> not possible because of work, conferences
> or other constraints.
>
> After that we can set up a doodle to find dates for a combined 
> user/dev meeting.
>
> There are a few conferences this year where we could hold the meeting 
> before or after at a nearby location
> to save international attendees travel time:
> - deRSE26 march 3-5 Stuttgart <https://events.hifis.net/event/2945/>
> - siam pp26 march 3-6 Berlin 
> <https://www.siam.org/conferences-events/siam-conferences/pp26/>
> - PdeSoft July 13-15 Vienna <https://pdesoft2026.conf.tuwien.ac.at/>
> - WCCM-ECCOMAS July 19-24 Munich 
> <https://eccomas.org/2025/04/02/wccm-eccomas-2026/>
>
> I am looking forwar to your non-availability dates.
>
> Best,
>
> Markus

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