Meeting 2020-02-03

Present: Adam, Dan, David, Graeme, James, Kilian, Mason, Sudhir

General Issues

• GPU Training

  • Sudhir contacted Mike Sokoloff

  • Graeme contacted Maria Girone (openlab)

Ongoing Event Planning

• Software Carpentries @CERN 24-27 March

  • Still waiting for confirmation from carpentries that they can provide tutors

Sustainability/Best Practices

• Pete Elmer proposed a workshop in this area to Dan Katz

  • Shared challenges

  • Spoke with Neil CH (UK), initial discussions, but not much specifically planned

  • Didn’t yet find volunteers to help with this

  • But we would still like to do it… so if you are interested, please get in touch with Dan

• How the software we write continues to be maintained over time, be supported on multiple platforms, and new features get added/removed over time

• How can training be sustainable? Not the focus of this workshop, but an interesting question.

• Links

  • http://urssi.us/winterschool/

  • https://github.com/si2-urssi/winterschool 

  • Testing module in SWC: http://katyhuff.github.io/python-testing/