EVERSE WP1 Monthly Meeting, 2024-04-24

Attending: Graeme Stewart (CERN), Jonathan Tedds (ELIXIR), Nikos Pechlivanis (CERTH), Daniel Garijo (UPM), Sanje Fenkart (CERN), Eleonora Parisi (LifeWatch), Giacomo Peru (UEDIN), Carlos Martinez (NLeSC), Faruk Diblen (NLeSC), Tea Vojtěchová (CUNI), Michel Jouvin (CNRS/IJCLab), David Chamont (CNRS/IJCLab), Aspa Orfanou (CERTH), Tassos Stavropoulos (OpenAIRE), Stefan Roiser (CERN), Jacky Bossey (CERN), Fotis PSOMOPOULOS (CERTH), Monica Abrudan (ELIXIR), David Chamont (IJCLab)

Apologies: Marco Bartolini (SKAO), Rosie Bolton (SKAO), Thanasis Vergoulis (ATHENA RC), Jan Hajič (CUNI), Neil Chue Hong (UEDIN)

Introduction

WP1 Overview - see slides

New joiners Sanje Fenkart (CERN), Monica Abrudan (ELIXIR), Rosie Bolton (SKAO).

Michel Jouvin has been discussing AI, and the use of LLM/RAG for the needs of Everse. IJCLab is recruiting and plan to investigate those tools primarily for WP5 (training assistance), but this can further benefit to WP1 (documentation crawling) and WP3 (software quality assitance, a la Co-Pilot). In legal terms, it seems we can start to look at this, then report after 6 months.

Institute contacts

ACTION: Please fill in who to contact in your institute for WP1: Spreadsheet in Owncloud

Communications

Web version (access via Edugain login) or desktop client / phone app use the URL Mattermost: https://mattermost.hzdr.de/

• To use eduGAIN, click on Helmholtz ID and select your institute/organisation

Joining the Network

We view the development of the network and its governance as an iterative process.

We need to elaborate a value proposition (sorry!)

• e.g., by participating you can influence the direction and content of RSQkit
• Daniel, Giacomo: What is it that I would get from the inside than just using the outputs of the project? Maybe the governance associated with some of the products?
• Daniel: as a community, we consolitate best practices. Together we can standardise good practices. This would be a good reason to join the network: to influence best practices, to push standardization efforts, or to influence existing ones.
  • Critical mass and capacity to influence the community (credibility in EVERSE as a body)
  • Trust in our cases and rationale.
• Fotis: Aditional perspective: no task force for software in the European Open Science Cloud association (EOSC). We are now effectively the "expert group" regarding software
• Stefan: WP5 - recognition of contributions to RSQKit (should be mentioned as a motivating factor)

Governance framework

Examples: https://society-rse.org, https://apache.org/foundation, https://www.rd-alliance.org/become-a-member/

Satelite event of Funders Forum in September, Uppsala: https://adore.software/2024-international-research-software-funders-workshop/

Monica: could we have global partners in WP1? Perhaps as associated partners, but they will have expectations. In any case, associated partners roles should be defined in black and white. Also, since EVERSE aims to have global impact, we should consider input from global partners.

Fotis: consider a formal ToR / Governance document for the Network

ACTION: CERN/SKAO organise a Task 1.1 meeting to develop ideas on governance

AOB

ACTION: ELIXIR / OpenAIRE to connect re T1.2
ACTION: Giacomo will get in touch with Carlos and organize the T1.3 work

Next Meeting: 22 May @11h CEST https://indico.cern.ch/event/1410014/