Coordination Meeting #296 Minutes for 23/10/2025

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+title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #296, 23 October 2025"
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+## Attending
+
+Present/Contributing: Claire Antel, Graeme Stewart, Michel Jouvin, Eduardo Rodrigues, Ruslan Mashinistov, Joe Osborn, Pere Mato, Saptaparna Batthacharya, Luke Kreczko, Ianna Osborne
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+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:
+<https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2025/10/10052_2025_Article_14571/10052_2025_Article_14571.html>.
+
+
+### 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 <mailto:[email protected]>.
+
+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.
+
+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, <https://indico.cern.ch/event/1477090/>, 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)).
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