diff --git a/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-20-coordination.md b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-20-coordination.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..608f4f98c --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-11-20-coordination.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #298, 20 November 2025" +layout: plain_toc +--- + +## 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](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1481829/): Announcement sent. +- TBC: Seminar on HS3, 3rd Dec - haven't heard back from speakers. +- Open Data seminar (Trig & Reco group): [28th Jan 2026](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1604475/). + +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 . + +Compute & Accelerator forums: +- 12 Nov: [A Formal but Pragmatic Foundation for General-Purpose Operating Systems](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1472688/). + - Seminar was excellent, recommend watching the recording. + +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, , Ruslan will chair. Last of the year (?) + +### 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)).