====== ABINIT Developer skype meeting 23 June 2020 ======

===== Program =====
14:00 to 18:30

**A. Global discussions**
(extracted from the proposal of topics below - estim. duration 1h45 to 2h50 ?)

  (1) ABINITv9 installation : status/difficulties/planned adaptation for ABINITv9.2; the ABINIT fallback project (tentatively 40-60 minutes)
  (2) Removing the files.file : status/planned adaptation/ possible beautification of selected tests (?tutorials) (tentative 20-30 minutes)
  (3) Beautification : tutorials, usage of XML for most test pseudopotentials, and/or other topics for beautification ? (tentatively 20-30 minutes)
  (4) Status of the test farm (info / questions / suggestions) (tentatively 15-25 minutes)
  (5) Next events (tentatively 15-25 minutes)

**Break** (15 minutes - coffee/tea/soft drink - well make your choice ... from your coffee machine or your fridge ...)

**B. Specific personal projects** (less than one hour ; see the list below, follow the alphabetic order, suggestion of one slide/three minutes per person willing to speak - well, more slides/time if you feel it is worth)

**C. Other issues** (if time left ...)

===== Contributions =====

Please, if you intend to participate to the event, indicate in the table below your name + possible topics or comments (e.g. suggestion of topics, or if restricted availability between 14:00-18:30 Europe or 8:00-12:30 East coast).

In case I do not have your SkypeID, I will contact you a few days before the meeting. Xavier.

^ Last name ^ SkypeID ^ Topics/Comments ^
| Amadon | with MT | Update on cRPA and new projects. (I have to leave at 17h40)|
| Baguet | with MT | ?? |                    
| Beuken | OK | abinit-fallbacks project & test farm | 
| Bieder | Testing | |    
| Bousquet | Testing | Reshape of berryphase_new (+ applied E-, D-field) and higher parall level |
| Bruneval | OK | GW density matrix implementation | 
| Côté | OK | To discuss: Can we remove the file.file file? Installation of ABINIT with Easybuild.|                                                                                      ^
| Gonze  | OK  | Build system of ABINIT : difficulty of installation (e.g. modifying ABINIT v9.0 for solving practical issues encountered on diverse machines) ; beautification end of August ?    | 
| Giantomassi | OK | Density/Potential in NetCDF by default ([[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/90|#90]]), refactoring of ddb_t to support dynamical quadrupoles [[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/93|#93]], tutorials, runtests.py and $ABI_PSPDIR [[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/91|#91]], New syntax for sharing the documentation of vars common to different executables [[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/74|#74]], Fix tests with FAILS_IFMPI tag [[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/92|#92]], Using MPI_INPLACE version as default [[https://gitlab.abinit.org/trunk/abinit/-/issues/89|#89]]|    
| Guster  | OK | ?? |
| He     | OK | brief update on development of TB2J and SCDM-k method for lattice and electron Wannier function.|
| Jollet | with MT | PAW tutorials update  5 '|    
| Pouillon | OK | Build system |
| Rignanese | OK | ?? |
| Romero | OK | PyProcar status. Cleaning Berry phase modules (with E. Bousquet) |
| Torrent | OK | BS v9 experience on various architectures + Abinit dev workshop in May/June 2021 |
| Van Bever | OK | ?? |
| Verstraete | OK | EPC update with Matteo, GPU enabling + followup on abstraction layer from CEA|
| Zwanziger | OK | Brief update on progress on orbital magnetization |