NEST Hackathon 14.09 18.09 2020

Where: Online

When: 14.09 - 18.09.2020

Participants

Automatic testing

Part of NEST is missing tests (structural plasticity, dopamine, ...) [CL will look at dopamine synapse test]
- Tuesday
look at MUSIC tests
Need discussions and who-does-what

ResetNetwork / dumping & loading

Related Issue #1755
If we have users participating: discuss and find out exactly what needs to be saved and if it is possible
Discuss new idea from Open VC 17. august
Should result at least in a document detailing our current understanding
-> Wednesday

Create sub-folders in nestkernel directory

The directory is very messy, it would be nice to clean it up by organizing the different files into different folders
Create separate folders for connecting, recording backend etc.
(related issue #1175) -> Thursday

Other discussions

general

get number of PRs down
- evaluate GitHub projects efficacy, evaluate project-based updates replacing PR-based updates in Open NEST Meeting
discuss how to handle modules in future (#1717, @clinssen, @jougs)
NEST 2.20.1
Video conference with Jari, Wolfram and Susanne on "Basic Instrumentation" #1471 on Tuesday at 14:00

if time

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