Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2024-6-13

Timestamp:

Jun 25, 2024, 10:41:41 AM (18 months ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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2024-6-13

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  = Attendees =
 
-Tom Goddard, Selina, Zach, Scooter, Greg, Eric, Elaine, Tom Ferrin
+Pete, Tom Goddard, Selina, Zach, Scooter, Greg, Eric, Elaine, Tom Ferrin
 
 June 13, 2024
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 = Discussion Notes =
 
+* Backups
+  - Tom Ferrin suggests swapping unreliable backup tape drive robotics with Matt Jacobson's drive.
+
+* Wynton downtime
+  - ChimeraX web site, web services, bug tracking will be down, Monday and Tuesday.
+  - Elaine will make ChimeraX news item, Eric will post to ChimeraX mailing list, Tom will tweet.
+  - In the future hope to get 4-port JBOD (just a bunch of disks) to keep 4-node plato cluster running during Wynton maintenance.
+
+* NIAID contract
+  - Scooter reports contract signed by UCSF and NIAID / GuideHouse
+
+* Intern Pete has started
+  - Studying biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics and UC Santa Cruz.
+  - Will work in lab until last week in September.
+  - Will work on integrating Schol-AR 3D figure sharing in ChimeraX.
+  - Scooter plans to visit USC in August and will talk to Schol-AR developer, also may meet Selina who will start grad school there. We could do ChimeraX workshop at USC with Helen Berman.
+
+* Greg work in progress, Mailman 3
+  - Updated from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3 for mailing lists.
+  - Now uses Python 3 instead of Python 2.
+  - Required installing Python 3.11 on Rocky 8.
+  - Discussed whether we should port all services from current Python 3.8 to 3.11 in preparation for future move to Rocky 9 where 3.11 is the default.
+
 = Action Items =