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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #287, 24 April 2025" |
| 3 | +layout: plain_toc |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +## Attending |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +Present/Contributing: Ruslan Mashinistov, Tommaso Lari, Michel Jouvin, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Maarten Van Veghel, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Juan Miguel Carceller |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Apologies/Contributing: Christian Wessel (vacation), Eduardo Rodrigues, Michel Villanueva |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## News, general matters, announcements |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +### European Strategy Update (EPPSU) final stages |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +The paper, *The Critical Importance of Software for HEP*, was |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +- Submitted to the EPPSU process: <https://indico.cern.ch/event/1439855/contributions/6461466/> |
| 20 | +- Uploaded to Zenodo: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15097159> |
| 21 | +- Published on arXiv: <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.01050> (if you are an editor, ask Michel or Graeme for the arXiv claim code) |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +The paper was endorsed by ALICE, ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, DUNE, ePIC, LHCb, MCnet and WLCG! |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +Journal submission: EPJC is waiting our submission but not done yet due to lack of time... |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +### HSF/WLCG Workshop |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +Registration closed: 91 persons |
| 30 | +* Large majority of Europeans |
| 31 | +* Most presenters will be present |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +Agenda almost finalized |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +### HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +Planned seminars: |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +- April seminar canceled |
| 41 | +- 28th May (as announced last time): Seminar on AdePT and Celeritas update on detector simulation with GPUs. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +June has a clash with the EPPSU symposium - TBD if we have a seminar. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Venice workshop report tentatively scheduled for September |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +HSF seminar conveners are reachable at <mailto:[email protected]> |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +* Please send your suggestions for next seminars |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +### Steering Group |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +Last SG meeting took place on [April 14th](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/2025/04/14/steering.html). |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +The chair (Graeme) ends the mandate on June and leaving CERN; also there are a few members retiring. Some discussion has started on the level of support which can be expected from CERN and possible other contributions. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +Discussion ongoing with ACTS which is a candidate |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +DIRAC : answer expected in the coming week after their collaboration discussion |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +## Activities Updates |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +### Software Training |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +Future events: |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +- [HSF/WLCG Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1484669/) - May 5-9. We will have a dedicated training session with these talks: |
| 71 | + - The EVERSE training and recognition plan |
| 72 | + - GWOSC and gravitational-wave data analysis training |
| 73 | + - Training on sustainable computing at DESY |
| 74 | + - User learning for ePIC |
| 75 | + - HOWTO Train: The HSF Training experience |
| 76 | +- [HSF/IRIS-HEP Software Basics Training (Hybrid)](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1516608/) - Jun 18-20. Hybrid at CERN. Registration will be open soon |
| 77 | +- [Deep Learning Train-the-Trainer Workshop](https://indico.desy.de/event/47263/) - Sept 15-19. Organized by the HSF and ErUM-Data-Hub. In-person in Potsdam. Registration is open! Deadline: August 4 |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +### Software Tools and Packaging |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +Ruslan Mashinistov: |
| 82 | +- AI-Assisted Tools Seminar – Planning Update |
| 83 | +- Confirmed Speaker: |
| 84 | + - Shuwei Ye (BNL) |
| 85 | + - Reconfirmed availability |
| 86 | + - Will give an experiment-agnostic presentation |
| 87 | + - Topics to be covered: Aider, Ollama (local LLM models), Google NotebookLM. Includes a live demo |
| 88 | +- Next Step: Find more presenters |
| 89 | + - I think to try to contact with Mohammad Al-Turany (Co-author of "LLMs for Enhanced Code Review") |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +### PyHEP |
| 93 | +[PyHEP.dev 2025 Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1515852/) will be held at University of Washington from July 14 to 17. |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +### JuliaHEP |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +[JuliaHEP 2025 Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1488852/) will be held at Princeton from July 28 to 31. |
| 98 | +- Abstract submission deadline: April 30 |
| 99 | + - the number of submissions is approaching that of last year |
| 100 | +- Early registration deadline for local participation: April 25 |
| 101 | + - After April 25 an additional fee will apply |
| 102 | +- Final registration deadline: July 7 |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +### Next Meeting |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +The next slot overlaps with the HSF workshop so we won't have a coordination meeting; the next meeting would be 22 May (TBC) |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +### Chair This Meeting 👇 |
| 111 | + |
| 112 | +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)). |
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