diff --git a/organization/_posts/2026/2026-04-30-steering.md b/organization/_posts/2026/2026-04-30-steering.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0b3892eb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2026/2026-04-30-steering.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Steering Group Meeting, 30 April 2026" +layout: plain_toc +--- + + +## Attending + +Present/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Michel Villanueva, Paul Laycock, Graeme Stewart, Stefan Roiser + +Apologies: Claire Antel + +## News + + +## Joint WLCG/HSF workshop 2026 + +We have converged on a draft set of HSF parallel sessions. Feel free to suggest speakers for some presentations we may invite people for; otherwise, we're good for now. + +ACTION: Eduardo to email the AA conveners to check if they have ideas regards invitations. + +## Activity Area activities + +Status? Please all SG members update their roles and ensure they liaise with their AA conveners. + +As Claire put it (very nicely), "I have found it pretty helpful to have the Area Activities brainstorm seminar topics and organise the speakers. It helped to have links to a wider set of experiments, and ... kept them engaged.". + + +## WLCG Management Board community software liaison + +The LHCC have asked for a presentation at the forthcoming LHCC meeting (2 June), Stefan will prepare slides, Eduardo will do the presentation, many thanks!! + + +## Advisory Group news and follow-ups + +Christian Gutschow got elected as the new (and first!) chair of the HSF AG. Congratulations and many thanks to him! We look forward to working with Christian. + +We still have the action from this year's AG meeting to try and attract representatives from ALICE and MCnet on the SG team. +ACTION: Eduardo to re-ping AG contacts on this matter. + +## HSF Budget + +Support for the JuliaHEP workshop has been accepted. Nothing else so far in the pipeline. + +## Project Affiliation and Affiliated Projects + +Significant review of the programme has been done, in particular: + +- Change the "Tiers" wording with respect to the original EVERSE one. +- Mention that the affiliated projects decide their software category by themselves (minor doubt: what if the reviewers don't agree? Should we have a light-touch review of this?) +- Turn the differential criteria for software of different tiers into desirable criteria that is not necessary for affiliation. +- Add mentions and contextualisation page for connections to ICFA and EVERSE. +- Soften the "number of developers" criteria. +- Introduction of a duration for the granted affiliation. A period of 5 years seems suitable. +- Removal of old scheme affiliation since many colleagues got confused by it. +- Removal of the old idea of annual project awards, which is by-now very unlikely to be implemented. + +Latest version of the (online) pages with all details, for review and approval, are the following: +- +- + +Any immediate feedback? + +**ACTION FOR ALL:** review and eventually approve towards finalisation. Deadline of next Wednesday May 6th. + +**FOR APPROVAL:** the documents of the reviews are circulated for community feedback and approval. +Shall we add them to the repo and link to them from the [projects page](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/projects/projects.html)? +That can be beneficial (1) to record the review process, (2) to give credit to the named reviewers, and (3) to eventually help with re-evaluations, acting as a starting point/reference, (4) for matters of transparency. + +#### Reviews recently finalised +- MadGraph5_aMC@NLO +- Pepper +- Pythia + +#### Ongoing reviews +- DIRAC - in community-wide feedback stage, deadline is May 7th +- NoPayloadDB Conditions Database - WIP + +ACTION TO ALL: engage with other projects. + +## SG Composition + +- If you know of someone who is active in community work and shares the HSF's goals consider inviting them to be on the SG. +- We should review annually the composition. Reminder that our SG webpage states that _"When a SG member becomes inactive (e.g., ceases to meaningfully follow any HSF activities) in the HSF they will leave the SG."_. + +## HSF representation + +- We are regularly asked to present or attend events + - See list of presentations at . + +ACTION: please check if the talks you gave for the HSF are listed at the above link. + +## HSF GitHub matters + +The SG team has been updated. Use it to get PRs notified to / reviewed by the whole team. + +A couple of obsoleted teams got removed, e.g. the "core" team. + +## AOB + +### Next Meeting + +Most likely in June, after CHEP.