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HSF Weekly Meeting #78, January 19, 2017

Present: Andrea Valassi, Pere Mato, Ben Morgan, Michel Jouvin, Dario Menasce, Benedikt Hegner, Guilherme Amadio, David Smith, Daniel Elvira, Peter Elmer, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Riccardo Bianchi, Mark Neubauer, Ilija Vukotic

News, general matters

• Google Summer of Code

  • Google has accepted the transition from the CERN organization to a new umbrella organization under a new name - the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). We will still kept a reference to CERN to facilitate students candidates to find old projects.

  • Stating to create the ‘ideas’ page (in the HSF web) to propose projects.

  • The coordinators this year are: Sergei Gleyzer and Enric Tejedor

• CERN EP-SFT position. In the hands of HR. A meeting is scheduled to finalize it the first week of February.

  • Can also be mentioned during the opening session in San Diego

Current Topics

San Diego workshop

• http://indico.cern.ch/event/570249/ : some adjustments made on the timetable.

  • Michel received feedback from several European FAs, still waiting an answer from Spain, expected by the end of the week.

  • Reception planned on Monday: will be added to the agenda

  • SDSC computing center visit proposed: probably on 2 days (Tuesday and Wednesday)

• Agenda googledoc

  • Plenary talk by Aaron Sauers confirmed on issues with code developed by governmental organizations and licensing issues (title to be finalized)

  • Computing models: probably mainly a discussion slot. Ian Fisk and Rob Gardner agreed to convene this session.

  • Panels with industry: review proposed questions in Google Doc, add your suggestions

  • Parallel sessions: several rooms available of different size, need to match room capacity with expected attendance for each session

  • Most sessions have conveners except Workflow and Resource Management (somebody from CMS proposed) and Role of ROOT (Liz ready to do it)

  • CAP (Analysis Preservation) interested to contribute in some way (Lucas, Mike)

  • Last day: just having a report of each WG could be a bit tedious and not very productive. Pete suggests that we could have a summary slot at the end of the day where some of the parallels already completed can be discussed and may provide input for later WGs with overlap. Would be a pity if we end up with independent, non overlapping discussions. Could be also an “informal” report during lunch or another slot. Pete will try to propose an implementation.

• White paper solicitation

• Pete suggesting to have short presentation of every participant as in http://s2i2-hep.org/downloads/s2i2-hep-cs-participants.pdf

Future HSF events, 2017 plans

• HEP analysis ecosystem workshop proposal

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aAGCj_y9in_I-c9yYJ-XX3Qurf0PXH4tFoYmvuCY5tk/edit?usp=sharing

  • To be discussed at the workshop in San Diego

• Date/location for CWP workshop circa summer 2017

  • Convergence?To be discuss at the workshop in San Diego

Activity updates

Licensing

• Meeting date finalized from doodle. It is Tuesday 21st February at 4pm CET.

Reconstruction

• Slot for REco forum in HSF at the connecting the dots workshop

AOB

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