Training Planning Meeting

Europe/Zurich

Meeting 2020-02-10

Present:  Adam Parker, Dan Katz, Danika Marina Macdonell, David Lange, Kilian Lieret, Samuel Meehan, Sudhir Malik, Henry Schreiner, Peter Elmer

General Issues

  • GPU Training

    • Sudhir contacted Mike Sokoloff  and Mike suggested following people

      • LHCb - Dorothea vam Bruch, Roel Aaij, and Daniel Campora.,  Augusto Alves Junior, Diego Martinez (from Santiago has several people in his group doing GPU R&D) Henry Schreiner

      • Mike can help organise to some extent

    • Graeme contacted Maria Girone (openlab)

Ongoing Event Planning

  • Software Carpentries @CERN 24-27 March

    • Reply from Carpentries Awaiting the final confirmation. Can you also confirm the dates of teaching? The instructors are accustomed to 2 days and you have the 24-27th. So I'd like to be able to tell them the exact days... One of the confirmed instructors asked this question.

    • Cloned from past indico is here for this event : https://indico.cern.ch/event/882660/ 

    • Local organizing committee: Still undecided. Present at CERN: David, Graeme, Adam, (James can maybe travel) Sam + Kilian: Write to confirm local organizers

      • Day 1 - Shell basics (unix) and very basic python (optional day for real beginners)

      • - Plus we do a surgery for conda setup, drop in for anyone coming in days 2 and 3

      • Day 2 - Python + Git

      • Day 3 - Python (Tests) + Git Merges + CI (?)

      • Day 4 - Notebooks+PyROOT + Uproot?

 

Training blueprint doodle:

Message from Peter Elmer

  • proposals for sponsorship of events (within the IRIS-HEP scope) should be brought to the IRIS-HEP Executive Board for discussion and approval. some more formal documentation about it will be provided 

Lund agenda

  • Might want to have a plenary talk in addition to the parallel session to get everyone on board (how can the findings of the different WGs be converted to training modules to spread the knowledge from experts to students? etc.)

  • What should happen in parallel session?

  • Will discuss planning of future of training WG already during the blueprint meeting

  • Small training (2h) about docker + CI? -> Lukas Heinrich might be available

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