Coordination Meeting #297 Minutes for 6/11/2025 (#1774)

Author: eduardo-rodrigues

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+title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #297, 6 November 2025"
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+## 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 <mailto:hsf-seminar-conveners@googlegroups.com>.
+
+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, <https://indico.cern.ch/event/1477091/>, 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)).