PlasmaPy: current status, future directions, and ways to contribute*

The mission of the PlasmaPy project [1] is to foster the creation of a fully open source software ecosystem for plasma research and education.  The PlasmaPy package is being developed to include the common core functionality needed by plasma physicists across disciplines.  PlasmaPy prioritizes code readability, consistency, and maintainability while using best practices for scientific computing such as open development, version control, continuous integration testing, and code review.  We will describe new capabilities of PlasmaPy including for plasma diagnostics such as synthetic charged particle radiography.  We will present code development plans over the next year, in particular including expanded functionality for plasma diagnostics and simulations, as well as more integration with other community projects such as Gkeyll.  Finally, we will discuss how to contribute to open source projects such as PlasmaPy.

[1] https://www.plasmapy.org