diff --git a/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-23-coordination.md b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-23-coordination.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b04d4248 --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-23-coordination.md @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #296, 23 October 2025" +layout: plain_toc +--- + +## Attending + +Present/Contributing: Claire Antel, Graeme Stewart, Michel Jouvin, Eduardo Rodrigues, Ruslan Mashinistov, Joe Osborn, Pere Mato, Saptaparna Batthacharya, Luke Kreczko, Ianna Osborne + +Apologies/Contributing: Alexander Moreno, Michel Villanueva, Inês Ochoa + +## News, general matters, announcements + +### European Strategy Update (EPPSU) + +Michel announced that the document written by the community for the EPPSU about "The critical importance of software in HEP" is now published in EPJ-C: +. + + +### HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum + +Planned HSF seminars: +- EPPSU & Venice Symposium Seminar postponed to [26th Nov](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1481829/). +- No seminar in October. +- TBC: Seminar on HS3, 3rd Dec. + +Others in the works: +- Seminar on OpenData organised by Trig & Reco SW AA +- 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 + +- **2026 conveners**: It is that time of the year again to start initiating the process for identifying the 2026 activity area conveners. + - Activity Conveners to notify Eduardo at earliest convenience whether they would like to continue or step down. + - Volunteers to join search committee? Let Eduardo know by 28th Oct. +- We are still looking for another colleague to run the lightweight evaluation of the NoPayloadDB (a.k.a. HSF CDB) and client. Please get in touch with the SG/Eduardo if you can help out! + +### 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; it is appreciated. + +Sapta will make a poster that can be put on office doors and advertise to her undergraduates - get them while they're young! + +### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software + +- As said above (SG news), looking for an extra reviewer for the evaluation of the NoPayloadDB (a.k.a HSF CDB) and client. +- "Review" of DIRAC ongoing in the background. + +## Activities Updates + +### Software Training + +##### Future Events: +- [13th HEP C++ Course and hands-on training - Advanced C++](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1549051/overview), 27-31 Oct. +- Blueprint Meeting on AI - TBD. + - Survey to collect comments, and then organize a dedicated session with different collaborations to define a roadmap. + +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. + +### Reconstruction and Software Triggers + +Open datasets seminar "roundtable" looking at January time slot. We have talks confirmed for LHC open data, FM4NPP, and (successor to) TrackML. + +### PyHEP + +[PyHEP 2025 Users workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1566263/) next week! 243 registered, 30 presenting. + - "Awkward Array Internals: A Hands-On Hacking Session" on Thursday, 30th. + - [GitHub poll](https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/discussions/3683) - 59 votes - 33% want to learn about Awkward Array. + - Nvidia "Pythonic GPU Parallelism for HEP with cuda-cccl". + - "Reproducible reuse by default: Use of Pixi for software in (Py)HEP". + - "Up your ML game: an overview of Python ML tools relevant to HEP". + - And more! + +### JuliaHEP + +First organising for JuliaHEP 2026 next week. It will probably be in Germany (99.999999%). As JuliaCON is in August we disfavour having JuliaHEP the week before/after - likely we'll wait until September or October. + +### GSoC program 2025 + +A full report will come in November. + +## AOB + +### Next Meeting + +The next coordination meeting will be November 6th, , Caterina 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)). +