Attending
Present/Contributing: Claire Antel, Joe Osborn, Maarten van Veghel, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Alexander Moreno, Michel Hernandez Villanueva, Ruslan Mashinistov, Torre Wenaus, Stephen Mrenna
Apologies/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Graeme Stewart
News, general matters, announcements
LHCC Meeting News
- A few recommendations:
- Associate with more software projects - mostly passive when projects come to us. HSF should be more proactive in approaching projects directly.
2026 conveners
It’s that time of the year again to run the process to identify the 2026 activity area conveners.
- The call for nominations for 2026 conveners is open. Please nominate those you know and share around.
HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum
Planned HSF seminars:
- EPPSU & Venice Symposium Seminar on 26th Nov: Announcement sent.
- TBC: Seminar on HS3, 3rd Dec - haven’t heard back from speakers.
- Open Data seminar (Trig & Reco group): 28th Jan 2026.
Others in the works (no updates):
- 2nd in series on AI-assisted SW tools organised by software tools & packaging
- Seminar from creator of mp-units (supports units and constants in C++, see AOB) - still to be arranged.
(Thanks to the activity groups for coming to us with seminar ideas and speakers!)
HSF seminar conveners are reachable at hsf-seminar-conveners@googlegroups.com.
Compute & Accelerator forums:
Please send your suggestions for next seminars.
HSF Affiliated Projects and Software
- Pepper project review ongoing
Activities Updates
Software Training
Future Events:
- Blueprint Meeting on AI - TBD
- Survey to collect comments in the scope of training. We will send the survey specifically to conveners of AI (for instance https://iml.web.cern.ch/forum)
- Organize a dedicated session with different collaborations to define a roadmap on training
- We are organizing training events for next year. If you have any suggestions, comments or ideas, please let us know asap
Other activities:
- Finalizing the paper “Training on Data Analysis Reproducibility via Containerization with Apptainer” for The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE). We will circulate a message with the draft to collect authorship information soon
- Maintenance of repositories
Event generators
- Review for SHERPA pepper ongoing, similar to review for NNPDF
- Plan on submitting 2 GSoCs for negatively weighted events
Reconstruction and Software Triggers
- Suggestion from IML to make the open data set seminar in January a joint HSF/IML seminar to broaden attendance. No objections from our side
JuliaHEP
JuliaHEP 2026 will be in Munich. We are planning for the end of September or the beginning of October.
JuliaCon 2026 - We are working on the JuliaHEP Mini-symposium proposal.
We are organizing JuliaHEP Users Meetings - every other month next year.
AOB
Physical Constants / HEPdata Library
Standing reminder: we proposed a C++ header-only library that defines physical constants and some salient HEPdata in a lightweight, easy-to-use manner. Also taking into account versioning.
Please get in touch with Graeme Stewart if you would like to discuss involvement in this.
Next Meeting
The next coordination meeting will be December 4th, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1477091/, Ruslan will chair. Last of the year (?)
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