Andrew: Getting back to basic research.
Duco: Working on ShinyStan extensions with Jonah
Jonah: Working on ShinyStan backend, LOO has been submitted to CRAN for release. Working on Bayes Plot, StanCon submission issues.
Lauren: Working on papers/grants
Mitzi: Looking at some bugs in anticipation of 2.19, got accepted to presenting to conference in Scotland. Still working on collate feature.
Breck: StanCon moving along, registration to open any day now–waiting on one contract.
Bob: Expression code generator in OCaml. Basic code review in math lib.
Ben: Got stand alone generated quantities working in R. Bunch of interface work.
Sean: Release Monday 2.19 with or without benchmark tests. Working on code generation/GPU code.
Sebastian: Merged develop with PR. Implemented speedups on the reduce step. Need help with threading building blocks on windows.
Aki: Was teaching Copenhagen. Working on some metabolic genetics some researchers he met. Rhat eff sample sample online in few days.
Steve: Have a cmdStan PR in.
Matthijs: static analysis work in the compiler. GP analysis of chicken problem.
General Discussion:
Stan Con submissions. Just requiring abstracts.
Ben: Making RStan and RPackages easier to compile.