Project Meeting 2019.12.06

Phase 5a Getting Started

Phase 5a executed, which is phase 5 tasks 1 (partial), 4, 5, 6, and 8
@Ben create milestones for task and issues for work items; team to watch and comment
Suggested plan for getting started:
- Jeff and Blake start working on task 8 (popsim migration) and the much needed task 4 (I/O improvements) items:
  - Allow users to specify separate input CSV tables or an HDF5 file in the initialize step (which basically means creating a new model step to replace this script)
  - Provide automatic generation of simpler and more typical activity-based model output files such as the final household, person, tour, and trip files. (which basically means adding a CSV or HDF5 option to the write_tables function)
  - Include table indexes as columns in the output CSV tables to make it easier to join the tables later (we may have already implemented this)
- Jeff draft plan for task 4 item - whenever a logit model is solved, add the ability to get the logsum in addition to the choice
- I'll work on task 6 (developer tutorial)
  - I'd like to discuss the format and I think we have two good options
  - The existing rst user documentation
  - An online runnable Google Colab Jupyter notebook like I recently created for open matrix
  - I'm thinking the tutorial is the Colab notebook and it is referenced in rst user documentation
  - @Ben share similar tutorial / examples
- For task 5 (TNCs), I'll setup a requirements/design meeting with the team and Mark and Joel

TRB meeting planning
@Joe share ITM tutorial
Any updates with regard to contracting
Discuss response for pull requests. The existing contribution review criteria and the upcoming strategic development and contribution plan task are relevant.