Minutes for HSF Coordination Meeting #304 (#1885)

* Minutes for HSF Coordination Meeting #304

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Co-authored-by: Eduardo Rodrigues <eduardo.rodrigues@cern.ch>

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Co-authored-by: Eduardo Rodrigues <eduardo.rodrigues@cern.ch>

Author: michmx

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+title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #304, 12 March 2026"
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+## Attending
+
+Present/Contributing: Michel Villanueva, Claire Antel, Eduardo Rodrigues, Ruslan Mashinistov, Graeme Stewart, Stephen Mrenna, Steven Gardiner, Juraj Smiesko, Christian Wessel, Alexander Moreno, Stefan Roiser
+
+Apologies/Contributing: Maarten van Veghel, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Peter Fackeldey
+
+## News, general matters, announcements
+
+### HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum
+
+Planned HSF seminars:
+- Seminar on HS3: [25th March](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1622602/)
+- Seminar by Kati Lassila-Perini (chair) on ICFA Data Lifecycle panel [best practice recommendations](https://icfa-data-best-practices.app.cern.ch/): [29th April]
+- 2nd in series on AI-assisted SW tools organised by software tools & packaging - possibly separate seminar organised with sustainability group.
+
+Seminars beyond April?
+- Probably no seminar in May: Clashes with CHEP.
+- Should consider topic ideas inspired by CHEP 2026 (speakers would have material ready).
+
+HSF seminar conveners are reachable at <mailto:hsf-seminar-conveners@googlegroups.com>.
+Please send your suggestions for next seminars.
+
+### Steering Group & Advisory Group
+
+Confirmed date for the **next WLCG/HSF Workshop is 2-6 November 2026, Bologna**.
+
+- Let us know if you would like to suggest topics/themes for the workshop.
+
+### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software
+
+List of current reviews underway:
+
+- DIRAC / DIRAC X - done, sent an email to DIRAC reps, being cross-checked
+- NoPayloadDB Conditions Database - ongoing
+- Pepper - ongoing (mostly done)
+- MadGraph5_aMC@NLO - done, will be sent to SG for review
+- Pythia - ongoing (mostly done)
+
+Do not hesitate to discuss around you to identify relevant projects/libraries that could engage with the affiliation programme.
+
+Thank you very much to those who accepted to act as a "reviewer" or spontaneously put themselves forward. This is super appreciated; it makes all the difference.
+
+Very positive feedback from the Pythia developers about the process!
+
+## Activities Updates
+
+### GSoC 2026
+
+Have received 39 project ideas, significantly more than last year.
+Candidate selection for projects underway. Application window for contributors opens March 16th, closes March 31st.
+
+Sent out information and dashboard invites to mentors. As it needs a Google account (but not a CERN-managed one) this process is unfortunately a bit complicated. Contact admins in case of problems.
+
+Would be nice to get some inputs for the students from the Training WG after the projects kick off in May, will send a mail.
+
+Graeme noticed that there is a European Summer of Code now (inspired by GSoC), <https://www.esoc.dev/#about>.
+
+### Software Training
+
+#### Next Trainings
+
+- [14th HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training - The Essentials](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1617123/), 9-13 March (hybrid)
+    - Registration:
+        - Attendance at CERN: 15
+        - Remote Attendance: 82
+
+- [Analysis Reproducibility Training (Virtual)](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1658598/) - April 27-30.
+    - Modules: CI/CD GitHub Actions, Docker/Podman, Apptainer, CI/CD GitLab, and REANA
+    - It will be announced this week
+
+- There is interest in the SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) collaboration to develop a Rust for HEP Training.
+    - New framework will probably include Rust
+    - DAQ and CondDB already use Rust
+    - Plan:
+        - Hackathon, early this Summer
+        - First Rust training next fall
+
+#### Papers
+
+- Training on Data Analysis Reproducibility via Containerization with Apptainer. It will be submitted to The Journal of Open Source Education, JOSE, and also to the arXiv.
+
+### Event generators
+
+- Sapta's participation in GSoC: student selection ongoing.
+
+
+### PyHEP
+
+- PyHEP.dev 2026 is fixed: Sep 7 - 9, at Nikhef, Amsterdam.
+- Indico page etc. will follow soon in coordination with the Nikhef contacts.
+- During PyHEP.dev Peter F. will do a ~1h seminar talk at Nikhef about our PyHEP activities (Sep 8).
+
+### JuliaHEP
+
+- [Planning meeting](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1662091/) today at 16:00 CERN time.
+    - JuliaHEP 2026 will be in Munich, October 19-23. We will start advertising the event next week!
+    - JuliaCon 2026 - JuliaHEP Mini-Symposium - Julia for Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics: From Precision Science to High-Performance Tools.
+        - We have received 9 contributions!
+
+## AOB
+   
+Do not hesitate to get in touch with the SG if you have/know of events useful to add to the HSF calendar.
+The calendar is used by very many to check for available dates, constraints, and plan events. Thank you in advance.
+
+### Physical Constants / HEPdata Library
+
+Reminder that 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.
+
+We had a meeting 2 weeks ago.
+
+There is now a "proof of concept" version of this, [hep-constants](https://github.com/HSF/hep-constants) that can process data from CODATA files, import units and prefixes from the Python [hepunits package](https://github.com/scikit-hep/hepunits) and generate C++ headers (using some symbolic manipulation). Now awaiting feedback from others on the general approach.
+
+### Next Meeting
+
+The next coordination meeting will be on March 26th.
+
+### 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)).