# Stan General Meeting, October 10, 2019 11 am EDT

**URL:** <https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333>\
**Category:** Meetings\
**Created:** [October 10, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333 "2019-10-10T13:56:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![breckbaldwin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/breckbaldwin/32/9052_2.png) [@breckbaldwin](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/breckbaldwin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333/1 "2019-10-10T13:56:24Z")

</div>

Hangouts Link: [https://meet.google.com/gzm-wmum-pfm](https://meet.google.com/gzm-wmum-pfm)

Instructions: Ask to attend in the hangouts interface and someone should let you in in the first 10 minutes of the meeting. Email [breck@mc-stan.org](mailto:breck@mc-stan.org) if you have problems or want to attend the physical meeting in New York City.

Please add your agenda items in replies.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![wds15](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/wds15/32/908_2.png) [@wds15](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/wds15)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333/2 "2019-10-10T14:11:14Z")

</div>

- threaded warmup plans - asking for people who are interested to help

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![breckbaldwin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/breckbaldwin/32/9052_2.png) [@breckbaldwin](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/breckbaldwin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333/3 "2019-10-10T16:09:52Z")

</div>

Steve: Documentation and fixing Stan Math documentation.

Aki: Gave two talks on Bayesian Workflow, arrive next week on the 15th to NYC

Jonah: Working on CmdStanR, working on papers.

Sebastian: Threading building blocks(TBB) into Stan, with some windows problems.

Andrew: Finished regression and other stories. Talking about A/B testing.

Charles: Exposing newton solver w/new compiler. Working on monster model.

Lauren: Working on papers.

Sean: New compiler ready for release. Ryan has PR up that integrates optimization. Rok has PR up. Working on SBG

Breck: Working with YouTube manager, install video maybe. Discourse manager starting to define role, big thread on code of conduct.

Bob:Unit test for Stan math, removed bunch 10k lines of code.

Ben B: Workin on PR for Aki.

------------------General Meeting----------

Stan Install issues

Break down by platform, checklist steps for install for windows.

Lets hire an install manager

$10k job for installation to be proposed to SGB by Breck

* * *

Case Studies in R and Python. Either do separate case studies or single control if it is a single document that switches between R and Python.

* * *

Sebastian wants to work on threaded warmup.

* * *

Bob warmup idea.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rok\_cesnovar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rok\_cesnovar](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/rok_cesnovar)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-general-meeting-october-10-2019-11-am-edt/11333/4 "2019-10-10T16:49:59Z")

</div>

You left before the ends so here is quick report of what happened after that. The final line on this topic was to make a prototype and then tag @betanalpha first.

I also posted the links to the speedup you got with TBB and no one was aware of those so please post those on Discourse.