Newsletter on the October 2020 J3 meeting

[milancurcic]

There is a thread with a summary from the meeting here.

Like we did with the February meeting newsletter, it would be useful to make and distribute a post about the progress made in the October meeting.

It looks like the GitHub issue thread could be largely adapted into a post. However, it would be helpful and nice to also have a brief discussion on the progress and future outlook, i.e. how did this meeting steer the course toward F202X.

The motivation for this is to leverage the fortran-lang reach and audience and promote the Committee's work.

What do you think? @certik @zjibben @sblionel @longb @rouson @gklimowicz @everythingfunctional @FortranFan @tclune @mleair

[certik]

I obviously agree, that is what I have been pushing all along and why Zach and I took our time to write things up. However, I would appreciate more help from the WG5 and J3 leadership. In my opinion it should be the leadership driving this effort (especially the part about future outlook and how the meeting steers towards F202X), and I can of course help, but it shouldn't be me driving this, as I am not in the committee leadership.

[sblionel]

I'll be glad to do a writeup - probably for my blog as that's where I've written about standards progress before. Let me review the summary thread for ideas.

[milancurcic]

Thank you @sblionel. Would you agree to co-author your write-up with @certik and @zjibben who already wrote a useful summary, and cross-post the article on both fortran-lang.org and your website?

I understand if you prefer to write your own thing for your website. In that case, we (others) should still publish one on fortran-lang.org. I think what @certik and @zjibben wrote is a great start. I could help summarize the discussion that followed in that thread.

[FortranFan]

@milancurcic wrote Nov. 6, 2020, 10:35 AM EST:

There is a thread with a summary from the meeting here.

Like we did with the February meeting newsletter, it would be useful to make and distribute a post about the progress made in the October meeting.

It looks like the GitHub issue thread could be largely adapted into a post. However, it would be helpful and nice to also have a brief discussion on the progress and future outlook, i.e. how did this meeting steer the course toward F202X.

The motivation for this is to leverage the fortran-lang reach and audience and promote the Committee's work.

What do you think? @certik @zjibben @sblionel @longb @rouson @gklimowicz @everythingfunctional @FortranFan @tclune @mleair

As you all will know, J3 also puts out the meeting minutes which may be useful to reference in the newsletter: https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/minutes222.txt

Great job on the newsletter.

[sblionel]

@milancurcic , I think the idea of separate posts would work better. I can write mine from the WG5 perspective, and others can write one from the user perspective. We should cross-link the posts.

[awvwgk]

This seems to be resolved.