2023 06 19 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • Integrating connectivity concepts into NEST documentation

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.

1. Models / NESTML
   • need reviewers for some PRs that made process recently
   • request for Tzodyks synapse in NESTML, worked straight forward.
   • starting to look into vectorization (CPU)
2. NEST GPU
   • new preprint available, paper submitted, presented at the NEST Conference 2023: Golosio, Villamar, Tiddia et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09855
3. PyNEST
   • no report
4. NEST Desktop
   • working on the infrastructure setup: load balancing and fixing timeout issues
5. Kernel
   • nothing to report
6. Installation
   • looking at removing the "debian" deployment data from the NEST repository #2776
7. Infrastructure
   • discussing question on migration to newer C++ standards
     • DECISION: allow C++20 from now on.
     • organize separate VC for direct discussion on next steps for NEST code ( -> Friday afternoon session)
8. Documentation
   • much work on documentation during the pre-conference Hackathon, many things still ongoing
9. EBRAINS
   • prepare NEST 3.5 for next EBRAINS code freeze at the end of the month

In-depth discussion

Integrating connectivity concepts into NEST documentation

Mathematical descriptions for all connection rules in paper Connectivity concepts in neuronal network modeling, PLoS CB 2022

• discuss how to combine with nest documentation pages?
  • include directly in the documentation, reading the well-defined terms will put users in a much better position.
  • ontology can be decoupled later on, when need arises
  • how to combine the definition of the graphical notation?
    • put into NEST Desktop documentation and cross-reference between both documentations (intersphinx)
• discuss how to enable contributions in same or other repository?
  • handle in nest and nest-desktop repos with the usual process