# Progress report for Simula
Martin Alnæs, Min RK, Vidar Tonaas Fauske
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## Financial and administrative setup
- Everything on rails: money arrived, first expenses done
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## Hiring
- Vidar Tonaas Fauske, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Start: May 1st
- Duration: 2 years
- Working on all Simula-lead deliverables, current focus: D4.6 (nbdime)
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## Achievements
- Progress on [D4.6: Tools for collaborating on notebooks via version-control](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/95)
- nbdime accepted to Jupyter project as [JPEP#8](https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/pull/8)
- working integration with git for CLI diffs
- working prototype for GUI diffs with git difftool
- Preliminary explorations for D4.12: 3D visualization in Jupyter
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## Main upcoming tasks and deliverables
- Due month 12:
- D4.5 (Sage/Jupyter notebook convergence)
- Workshop sprinting on exporting sage to ipynb (combining https://github.com/vbraun/ExportSageNB and https://github.com/nthiery/rst-to-ipynb)
- D4.6 (nbdime) well on its way
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## Additional Notes
- Martin Alnæs is on leave from mid April to end of July.