Training Planning Meeting

Monday 13 Jan 2020, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

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Meeting 2020-01-13

Happy New Year!

Present: Graeme, Kilian, Adam, David, James

Apologies: Sudhir (ill)

Upcoming Training Events: https://indico.cern.ch/category/11386/ 

Announcements

Kilian and Sam have joined Sudhir as HSF training coordinators. Welcome!

Need to get all of their names onto the HSF Training page (https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/workinggroups/training.html).

• Graeme will email instructions.

Upcoming Training Events

CSU Summer Student Computing/Analysis Training 2020 (21-20 January)

• Any HSF input required?

  • Probably not...

• CSU = California state university

Analysis Preservation Bootcamp (17-19 February)

• We assume that this is all in hand

Software Carpentries @CERN v2.0 (24-27 March)

• Room booked (need to shift one clash?) -> James

• Software Carpentry tutors -> Sudhir needs to do this, David will contact him

  • First day for real basics, unix shell; Python bootstrapping...

  • Second day Python

  • Third day git, including PRs and conflict resolution

  • Fourth day, HEP specific topics

• Posters

  • Graeme can do this...

• Announcements (via experiments)

  • Need to wait for SC confirmation

  • ATLAS visibility was an issue

    • Adam to discuss with ATLAS CC

  • Reach out to smaller groups (posters worked?)

  • Make sure this is targeted at the right people (beginners)

• Registration

  • Allow people on the previous waiting list to get priority (or do they now know this stuff?)

• Coffee breaks

  • Graeme will ask Pere if SFT can fund the coffee (or charge 10CHF for registration)

  • Borrow LHCb’s coffee machines?

• Lacked tutors to help - need to get more people

Alpaka Parallel Programming - Taster Session and Basic Tutorial

• Co-organised with openlab

• Most planning needed for first ”general” day

• Later sessions for expert groups, we have 3 groups confirmed: SFT team for simulation, CMS with Patatrack, ATLAS with Acts tracking

  • 2 slots offered to LHCb, ALICE - not sure if they will use them

General Issues and Planning

• Contact Sudhir’s student to get new events into HSF lists (and remind people how to do it -> perhaps put instructions on the web)

  • Graeme to look at this

• Graeme was asked to join the scientific organising team for ESCAPE summer school at LAAP in Annecy, June 2020

  • Generic topics can be shared with Dark Matter and Astroparticle communities

  • Not sure if they will cover C++ again

• IRIS-HEP Blueprint Meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1crLsW1YVBiuxrD34W5CZegJUtg6aDZ7TjG684J3xeTY/edit contact Sudhir

15:30 → 16:00 Discussion