Present/Contributing: Graeme, Liz, Claire, Torre, Michel, Eduardo, Mark, Nicole
Apologies: Paul, Stefan
There is an action on Paul and Graeme to follow up w.r.t. advertising the HSF within the collaborations/communities
Graeme has had some discussions with CERN about ongoing support for the HSF. CERN may be prepared to share the cost of a Scientific Associateship position, if other labs and institutes were also prepared to help. To progress on this we’d need to understand who would be prepared to help.
We noted that most support for the HSF is in-kind. e.g., at Fermilab. And team accounts are for quite specific things in many cases. US ATLAS do have a team account for software people that might help. However, both US ATLAS and US CMS both got cuts recently. Maybe CERN could provide support outside of CERN? To be investigated.
No further progress on an HSF collaboration agreement or MoU at the moment.
An update to the HSF’s goals was put onto the website: https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/goals.html. It is linked from the front page banner under “goals and objectives”. This is much less tied to the original CWP process, so looks a lot less out of date!
Some progress:
Graeme’s mandate ends June 30 this year. We will need to have a new chair or co-chairs after that.
We have a few people leaving the SG: David, Daniel and Peter - thanks to them for their work over many years. We also have quite a number of people retiring in the next ~year: Pere, Torre and Michel, who all made excellent contributions (N.B. they are not per-se forced off the SG!).
It would be very good to think about new SG members, if you know of someone who is active in community work and shares the HSF’s goals.
The paper, The Critical Importance of Software for HEP, was finalised on time 👏.
The paper was endorsed by ALICE, ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, DUNE, ePIC, LHCb, MCnet and WLCG! This is a great result.
We have been approached by Christian Carron at Springer, asking if we would consider publishing this in CSBS or in EPJC (Particles and Fields), in the new “Computing, Software and Data Science” section.
Michel and Graeme are in favour of the EPJC option (which will “replace” CSBS). The meeting was supportive of this course of action.
As of April 14, ~105 registered people.
Local organization: everything under control, NTR
Parallel sessions are mostly fixed, except for a chase-up in the training sessions; the “placeholder” session should be renamed to BoF. Some plenary speakers have had travel approval issues, but these are all being followed-up. Remote presentations are possible.
SG people who will be there: Michel, Eduardo, Graeme, Liz, Pere, Paul.
Last seminar on technical debt in scientific SW was very good and well attended (~40 local+remote).
Several topics for the upcoming ones but none worked for April:
As ever… Chairing sign up document.
Thanks to Michel, IJClab are going to look into taking over the hepsoftwarefoundation.org domain.
Sometime in June. We should anticipate the next SG Chair election at that meeting.