Fed 24, 2025#

  • Attendees:

    • Seth Mridul, Nabil Freij

  • Observers:

    • Nicole Foster, Claudia Alvarado, Arliss Collins

  • Apologies:

    • Irfan Alibay, Andy Terdrel, Addo Davies Jr.

Agenda#

  • NumFOCUS ACCESS

  • scverse AWS account (Gregor Sturm)

  • Pandas@OVHcloud - Pandas documentation offline

  • Decide on who should be the secretary and chair of the committee

    • Punt to the next meeting.

Notes#

  • Alexandru joined to discuss ACCESS:

    • Showed a demo of the setup that he has running for bioconductor.

    • Using Jetstream2

    • He works on this alone, low maintenance.

    • Paid by NSF, it’s all covered by them.

    • Access is open to the entire world.

    • Important as we have many projects which are not US-based.

    • Any issues with GDPR compliance?

      • No

    • Would need to ensure that a numfocus employee is able to maintain the system in case Alexandru leaves.

    • Long term, will NSF be able to fund it or will we need to switch to numFOCUS or project funding?

    • Also we also need to be clear what does funding mean here, it is human time or computer time. We need both to be sustainable.

    • No money exchanges hands, it’s based on allocations of tokens.

    • We will need to advertise this to projects, if the application is successful.

    • Application needs

      • What services would you like turned on

      • What would projects use these services for (provide examples)

      • Annual report needed to provide what was used, how useful it was, how much money was saved etc

Action items#

  • Upload notes to the website

  • Gauge interest in ACCESS from projects - looking for some projects that would be interested in a pilot project.

  • Create google survey

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