diff --git a/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-06-coordination.md b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-06-coordination.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..002d14f6c --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-06-coordination.md @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #297, 6 November 2025" +layout: plain_toc +--- + +## Attending + +Present/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Claire Antel, Ianna Osborne, Alexander Moreno, Torre Wenaus, Stefan Roiser, Pere Mato, Inês Ochoa, Michel Hernandez Villanueva + +Apologies/Contributing: Ruslan Mashinistov + +## News, general matters, announcements + +### LHCC Meeting + +The LHCC referees meeting will take place on the 18th November. Stefan Roiser will attend as liaison and will present on the following (requested by the LHCC): +- Update from Community Software/HSF on the status of the affiliated projects revision and the activities of the Advisory Group and Steering Committee. +- HSF's relationship with other AI-focused software coordination activities, such as EuCAIF, IML, or ML4EP. +- HSF vision on how AI-related software fits into HSF's strategy and organization. + +Kindly get in touch with Stefan if you would like to provide any input. + +### 2026 conveners + +It’s that time of the year again to run the process to identify the 2026 activity area conveners. +- Last call, reminder: Activity Conveners to notify Eduardo asap whether they would like to continue or step down. +- The call for nominations for 2026 conveners will happen next week. + +### HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum + +Planned HSF seminars: +- EPPSU & Venice Symposium Seminar postponed to [26th Nov](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1481829/). +- TBC: Seminar on HS3, 3rd Dec - still confirming with speakers. +- Open Data seminar (Trig & Reco group): [28th Jan 2026](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1604475/). + +Others in the works: +- 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 . + +Compute & Accelerator forums: +- 12 Nov: [A Formal but Pragmatic Foundation for General-Purpose Operating Systems](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1472688/). + +Please send your suggestions for next seminars. + +### Steering Group + +- Eduardo is organising a meeting with the IML group, on behalf of the SG, to discuss possible routes for closer collaboration and engagement related to AI/ML. All AA conveners are warmly invited to participate - any ideas are most welcome! + +- The HSF via Eduardo got invited to talk about the HSF at the Spanish national meeting session on computing challenges (COMCHA network) in Valencia mid November. + - Great opportunity to expose better the HSF, promote a closer collaboration via activities and tools, etc. + +### Advisory Group + +We have asked the advisory group to (re)advertise the HSF. The text is [here](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/6Wfvexa2QimHSIO-_Rmz3w) if you can do the same for a community not on the AG. + +Sapta will make a poster that can be put on office doors and advertise to her undergraduates - get them while they're young! + +(The AG members list has also been updated.) + +### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software + +- "Review" of DIRAC ongoing in the background. +- We identified 2 reviewers and the "review" of the nopayload DB and client will be starting soon. +- Pepper project colleagues interested and will talk to us for affiliation :). + +## Activities Updates + +### Software Training + +##### Recent Events: +- [13th HEP C++ Course and hands-on training - Advanced C++](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1549051/overview), 27-31 Oct. Registrations: + - 21 in person, 60 remote + +##### Future Events: + +- Blueprint Meeting on AI - TBD + - Survey to collect comments in the scope of training: What AI tools are being used right now? What topics/tools would be useful for collaborators to be trained? + - Then organize a dedicated session with different collaborations to define a roadmap on training. +- We are starting to organize training events for next year. We would like to focus on intermediate and advanced level trainings. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. + +##### Other activities: + +- Finalizing the paper "Training on Apptainer for HEP" for the The Journal of Open Source Education ([JOSE](https://jose.theoj.org/)). + - Once ready, we will circulate a message with the draft to collect authorship information. + +### Reconstruction and Software Triggers + +Open Data seminar (Jan 28): speakers confirmed for talks on LHC open data, Collider ML, FM4NPP and COLLIDE-2V datasets. + +### PyHEP + +[PyHEP 2025 Users workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1566263/) took place last week! + - Feedback is very positive: Ianna will summarize it in a couple of weeks. + - First Awkward Array hackathon took place during the workshop. + - Video recordings are being prepared and uploaded. + - Proceedings - on a to do list. + +A follow-up meeting with the NVIDIA Python CCCL group was held yesterday. We agreed to establish regular bi-weekly meetings going forward. + +During the workshop, there was also a request from the Python community to assist with one of the non-HEP projects presented at the workshop. We need to discuss how and who will contribute to this effort. + +### JuliaHEP + +JuliaHEP 2026 will be in Munich. As JuliaCON is in August 10-15 (Mainz) we disfavour having JuliaHEP the week before/after - likely we'll wait until September or October. + +JuliaCON 2026 - JuliaHEP Mini-symposium. + +Organizing JuliaHEP Users Meetings - every other month. + +### GSoC program 2025 + +A full report will come soon. + +## 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 November 20th, , Joe will chair. + +### Chair This Meeting 👇 + +Please [sign up](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z1Z4payCpieOLiVFcC6y9j-KCj71u6xX232LHUgIHfI/edit) for chairing a future coordination meeting. (There is even a [HOWTO guide](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/running-meetings.html)).