HSF Weekly Meeting #81, February 16, 2017

News, general matters

Liz - Licensing meeting next week is in indico now. Only holds 10 people, could do with a bigger one if possible. It has vidyo.
John - Witek sent a mail that there’ll be another LPCC simu workshop. The same week as the CWP workshop on Mon/Tue. Overlap is minimal if CWP starts Tue/Wed.

Peter rearranged web pages, sent a note out yesterday.
John - simu WG is organizing a meeting at the end of the month. Address different physics scenarios in simulation.
Ian - started to put together a computing model/facilities googledoc and google group. Doc has a list of high level areas where work needs to be done. The document is a whiteboard for people to put ideas and concerns in, please feel free.
Peter - be sure everything is linked from the summary page so people see everything in one place

Workshop planning googledoc
Indico page
Dates fixed last week, May 22-24.
Location possibilities: Italy (won’t fly), Amsterdam, Bristol (served by EasyJet from GVA and it’s an EasyJet hub, can also use Birmingham nearby), … and of course CERN.
re Amsterdam: looking at possible venues. Have NIKHEF logistics support. Just had a Big Data for Big Science meeting, this would fit the theme. Easy to get to from everywhere. Looking at central venues.
- Cost is an issue, what will the reg fee be? How much do hotels cost? Tickets expensive because of holidays?
- Flight is only 35 CHF each way right now.
have pre-reserved conference room at CERN just in case.
30 on the doodle so far.
have a serious closeout
- session block by session block, have rapporteur/note takers report out not just summary but conclusions and actions.

Dario: relation to HSF? Unknown. Clearly very different. Scientific computing forum is highly top-down, different set of people. It is a channel to funding agencies. HSF is bottom up.

Licensing News
- Reported last week: ATLAS has set the copyright of all their collaboration software to “CERN on behalf of the ATLAS collaboration”.
  - Actually it is “CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration”
Will plan a packaging meeting soon

We agreed to move the meeting a half hour later to 3:30 CERN time, and aim to keep it to a disciplined 30 minute length. Arrive on time :-) Effective next week.