FortranCon 2021 stdlib abstract

[nshaffer]

Hello all! This is a first draft of an abstract for a talk on the past year's developments in stdlib, to be submitted 7/31/2021. The tentative author list includes all GitHub users who made at least one contribution since last July:

@ghbrown @certik @wclodius2 @rscohn2 @milancurcic @LKedward @awvwgk @gareth-nx @aman-godara @Jim-215-Fisher @ChetanKarwa @arjenmarkus @14NGiestas @wyphan @ivan-pi @sakamoti @hsnyder @jvdp1 @ejovo13 @brocolis

What you can do for me:

1. Confirm here that you would like to be an author. I am treating authorship as opt-in, meaning that if I do not hear from you before the abstract submission deadline (7/31/2021), your name will not be included. However, I plan to have an acknowledgements slide that will list all stdlib contributors to date.
2. Check your affiliation, or provide one if it is not listed. If you prefer not to have an affiliation listed, just comment below or email me at [email protected]
3. If you think I have omitted any contributors from the past year, please comment below!

The abstract I have written is very generic and short. My intention is to leave space for you all to suggest additions. For instance, if there is a particular new module (or modules) that you think should be highlighted in the abstract, please bring that up! Likewise, I have not talked about the build system improvements in any detail. This is because I am not very familiar with those changes. If someone who was involved with that can comment on that, that would be a big help as well.

[milancurcic]

Looks good, thanks for starting it! I added a few comments. Yes, I'm opting in as co-author.

[jvdp1]

Thank you. Here are some suggestions.

[wclodius2]

I believe I have made significant enough contribution that I deserve to be a co-author. I am retired so I should have no affiliation.

[ivan-pi]

I would also like to opt-in.

[ivan-pi]

Suggested change

	Stdlib provides new functionality for working with bit sets, logging, quadrature, sorting, strings, and more.
	Stdlib provides new functionality for working with bitsets, logging, quadrature, sorting, strings, and more.

[awvwgk]

Thanks for starting this. I'm happy to help with the talk as author.

[certik]

Thank you for adding me as an author. Let me know how I can help.

[certik]

Suggested change

	Furthermore, the Github 's Continuous Integration pipeline is used to test all procedures derived types and modules at all pull requests, to ensure cross-platform support.
	Furthermore, the Github's Continuous Integration pipeline is used to test all procedures derived types and modules at all pull requests, to ensure cross-platform support.

[ejovo13]

This is kinda random but in the talk you should definitely mention how the (subjective?) popularity of Fortran has grown at an incredible rate since 2020, at least according to the TIOBE index. I've been watching it over the last six months or so as it first entered the top 20 around May, and now It's climbed all the way up to 14! To put that into perspective, one year ago it was ranked 50th...

The rise in rank is clearly a reflection of the effort that the community has put in to reanimate this quirky language.

[awvwgk]

Another interesting set of statistics can be found at codecov's State of Open Source Code Coverage where a significant growth in Fortran based projects is visible.

I was planning to get some statistics for the fpm presentation together on the adoption of fpm in Fortran projects (projects with fpm.toml, developers with fpm enabled projects, ...).

[nshaffer]

Thanks all for the feedback! I have just pushed a second draft. I intend to submit this Friday evening, Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00). If you have any final revisions or additions you'd like to suggest, speak now or forever hold your peace!

There are still a handful of contributors I am hoping to hear from.
@Jim-215-Fisher
@ChetanKarwa
@arjenmarkus

I will also try getting in touch via the Discourse.

[Jim-215-Fisher]

Thank you for including my name in the list. My suggestion is that we might give some focus on math in stdlib. When people think of Fortran, people think numerical calculation. If we have more readily available procedures in stdlib, we can attract more people to Fortran.

[nshaffer]

Thanks for that suggestion, @Jim-215-Fisher. I will definitely mention mathematical functions in the talk when I speak about the scope of stdlib and its goals. There's been some progress in the past year, but (as you've experienced) non-trivial mathematical procedures are difficult to review and adopt into stdlib. I plan to mention this in the talk as well.

What name/affiliation would you like me to use for you? If you prefer to keep your real name private, I can list an alias.

[LKedward]

Thanks @nshaffer, this looks good. And yes I'm opting in as a co-author.

[scivision]

I was omitted: @scivision

[hsnyder]

I'd like to opt-in as well - thanks for listing me as an author. My affiliation is "Structura Biotechology Inc". I'm happy to help more if directed.

[nshaffer]

Thanks all for your feedback! I've merged this into master. I'm hitting some strange error with the abstract submission system. I've contacted the FortranCon organizers and will hopefully have it resolved in time to submit tomorrow.

Edit: Not sure what I did differently this time, but I got it in!