2021 06 21 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

Agenda

Welcome
- Releases
  - NEST 3.0 is out!
    
    Hahne, Jan et al. (2021). NEST 3.0. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4739103. The full citation is available in different formats on Zenodo.
  - NESTML 4.0 is out!
    
    Pooja Nagendra Babu, Charl Linssen, Jochen Martin Eppler, Tobias Schulte to Brinke, Abolfazl Ziaeemehr, Tanguy Fardet, Younes Bouhadjar, Renato Duarte, Bernhard Rumpe and Abigail Morrison (2021). NESTML 4.0. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4740083.
  - ODE-toolbox 2.3 is also out!
    
    Charl Linssen, Shraddha Jain, Abigail Morrison and Jochen M. Eppler (2020) ODE-toolbox: Automatic selection and generation of integration schemes for systems of ordinary differential equations. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4245012.
  - NEST Desktop very soon
- NEST Conference 2021 next week!
  - today last day to register!!!
Review of NEST User Mailing List
Project team round
In-depth discussion
- t.b.a.

Mailing list

https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

Models / NESTML
- NESTML released!
- Working on PyNN integration
- Focussing on conference preparations and plasticity
PyNEST
- nothing to report
Kernel
- nothing to report
Installation
- Installation in virtual environments #1959
  - some files not placed in correct folders in certain circumstances
  - Issues were already fixed and merged (#2080)
Infrastructure
- Travis is turned off (read-only mode)
- static checks now also run on Github-actions
- changed files
Documentation
- nothing to report
EBRAINS
- nothing to report
(Feature) Automated Testing
- no report
(Feature) Extension Module System
- no report