# Fortran Monthly Call: September 2020

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298 "2020-09-14T13:48:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/1 "2020-09-14T13:48:07Z")

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Dear all,  
It’s again time to organize our next monthly call which will be in the week of September 21-25; please see the following doodle poll to mark your availability:

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The final time slot will be selected and announced on the morning (European time) of **Monday September 21, please complete the poll before then.**

If there are specific topics or issues you would like to raise, even if you are unable to attend the call, please post them in the thread here.  
As usual, we will record this call and make it available online.

All the best,

Ivan

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/2 "2020-09-14T14:01:26Z")

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Thank you Ivan for organizing it! Much appreciated.

I would like to discuss LFortran updates:

- The parser itself can now parse most of Fortran 2018
- Fast direct x86 machine code generation backend
- More Fortran features supported

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**Author:** ![billlong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@billlong](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/billlong)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/3 "2020-09-15T21:11:28Z")

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Just a note that the “2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference” runs September 21-25 .

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**Author:** ![jeremie.vandenplas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jeremie.vandenplas](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jeremie.vandenplas)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/4 "2020-09-16T12:55:32Z")

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Thank you for the organization.  
For stdlib:

- Discussion/testing/feedback on the [PR about loggers](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/228)

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**Author:** ![Arjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Arjen](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Arjen)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/5 "2020-09-21T12:52:02Z")

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When is the meeting? I only saw the announcement just now ;).

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**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/6 "2020-09-21T13:10:58Z")

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I will post the final time and date later today. It won’t be today, as I think this would be on too short notice.

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**Author:** ![Arjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Arjen](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Arjen)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/7 "2020-09-21T13:19:01Z")

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Good :). I would like to discuss/present the current state of the OS module in stdlib

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**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/8 "2020-09-21T16:40:43Z")

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Dear all,

Our next monthly call will be Friday, September 25 at 7pm BST (London).

11:00 - 12:00 PDT (California)  
14:00 - 15:00 EDT (New York)  
19:00 - 20:00 BST (London)  
20:00 - 21:00 CEST (Central Europe)

As previously I will post a reminder one hour before the meeting starts and the meeting will be recorded for those who cannot attend.  
Please continue to use this thread for topics you would like discussed at the meeting.

All the best,

Ivan

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**Author:** ![milancurcic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/milancurcic/32/2_2.png) [@milancurcic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/milancurcic)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/9 "2020-09-21T17:15:04Z")

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I also invited Valentin Clement (ORNL, [@clementval](https://github.com/clementval)) who will share some updates of his compiler work.

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/10 "2020-09-22T02:48:09Z")

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I also propose we discuss the proposals brewing in: [https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals).

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**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-september-2020/298/11 "2020-09-25T17:01:39Z")

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A quick reminder that our September Monthly Call will be starting in an hour.

The agenda is roughly as follows:

```
1. Welcome
2. Compilers
	- LFortran updates (Ondrej)
	- flang/LLVM updates (Valentin Clement)
3. stdlib
	- OS module (Arjen)
	- Logging (Jeremie, Milan, William B. Clodius)
4. fpm
	- Next steps
5. J3 Fortran Proposals
6. AOB
```
