Project Meeting 2018.01.09

SANDAG multiple zone system prototype

• Project completed and final test results posted
• Made some additional speed-ups due to sampling improvements, as described in #167

Documentation and release

• Finished outstanding documentation updates, merged develop into master, updated issues and milestones
• Posted a new release to pypi
• Updated the Progress Report
• Drafted initial Contribution Review Questions for review

TRB meeting agenda

• Discuss work program for 1st half of 2018
• Discuss improvements to the administrative management of the consortium:
  • We're getting significant interest from additional potential partners
  • The related PopulationSim, benefits calculator, and buffering tool (@stefancoe) packages are all close to done
  • So, to continue to formalize the ActivitySim effort, I think we should:
    • Adopt github.com/activitysim as our official home, similar to tlumip, visioneval, astropy, etc. and make the PMC members the organization owners
    • Transfer UDST/activitysim to activitysim/activitysim (the old site will redirect)
    • Redirect ActivitySim.org to github.com/activitysim. I bought ActivitySim.org last weekend for $10 for the PMC.
    • Create a very lightweight website for the project that links to the repos, the wiki, issues, etc. and is hosted on GitHub. See VisionEval's site and source repo for example.
    • Add a page describing affiliated packages, much like astropy does, with links to popsim, bca, etc.
    • Update the Governance document as needed
    • This should only take a couple days of effort and we can share costs among projects
• Discuss our response to agencies interested in joining the effort, especially:
  • what should be included in a scope for an activitysim ABM model development RFP
  • schedule / timing
  • etc.