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# Attract external users for SLIM
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## Improve usability
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- stripped-down version of the dg code with a limited feature set, focused on SLIM (relatively easy thanks to modules)
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- unique input and output data format + tools (python script) to convert anything from/to those formats (see valentin's work)
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- python-free version ? format of the input file ? gui ? no input files (compilation of a main required) ? It should be good enough that we want to use it ourselves.
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- documented examples for the complete process : pre-process data, run the simulation, visualize and analize outputs
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- the post-processing is a problem, currently : gmsh + paraview + matplotlib + qgis + ... ? is one of them satisfactory ?
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## simplify installation
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- compilation easier and faster since with dropped gmsh but we can go further, e.g. drop petsc requirement
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- downloadable binaries for windows + python distribution (anaconda)
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- ubuntu ppa (+ debian package ? + archlinux aur package ?)
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- OS X distribution ? homebrew/macport/??? package
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- web page with compilation instruction
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## improve computational efficiency
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- it has to be done but probably not priority 1
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## improve visibility
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- modern website
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- updated website
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- write a reference paper
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# remarks
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- Clarify why do we want external users and which external users ?
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- Wolanski is coming in august and Philippe and Jonathan are going to Townsville in September : test opportunity is probably to soon
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- Chicken or the egg problem : Having external users would probably help to get funding, this to-do list requires workforce, we are currently short of researchers ... |
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