wiki:2021-1-21

Attendees

  • Eric, TomG, Elaine, Scooter, TomF

Agenda

  • Action items
  • Chimera
  • ChimeraX
    • git repo public soon or not soon? Need to know for backups
  • Funding
    • NTT Data - plan for next contract
    • CZI Visual Proteomics Imaging RFA, due Feb 21, 2021
    • R24 plan, NIAID or NIGMS
    • U24 funding, this is what Cytoscape applied for.
  • SPOKE

Discussion

  • Commercial licensing for Chimera and ChimeraX
    • Tom Ferrin and Elaine discussed email from Sheryl and Heather from UCSF
    • put PDF forms on licensing web page
    • Elaine will accept changes and update web site
  • VPN 2-factor authentication
    • Scooter will try adding 2-factor authentication to VPN during Wynton down time.
    • Yubi key support may not be possible with radius server shim.
  • Chimera
    • CastP fetch broken, web site changed
  • ChimeraX
    • Tristan wants to know when is 1.2 release.
    • Need to settle how to handle Qt Python API to avoid changing it twice.
    • 1.2 release roadmap
      • Eric working on windows/linux ambertools compiles
      • TomG will work on qt python api
      • Many toolshed tickets to triage at next week's meeting
      • Decouple core version number from app version number?
    • Revive developers meeting?
  • CZI proposal
    • Permissive open source license needed.
    • Scooter says UCSF contracts office would need info much earlier than Feb 21 submission deadline.
    • Scooter needs title, abstract and budget to start with contracts office.
  • NTT Data proposal
    • NTT Data bought NETE, hopefully contract details don't change
    • Hope is contract won't be renegotiated
    • Will discuss proposal details / menu with NIAID next week
    • BioIT World article
      • VR server being setup in Uganda on RENU network by Rodgers Kimera
      • Malaria drug resistance cryoEM example found, PDB 6UKJ
  • Phenix R24
    • Not officially funded yet, but looks very likely, just-in-time documents requested
    • Tom, Eric, Elaine each 3.15 calendar months effort per year, TomF 0.24
    • Requested start date April 1, 2021
  • Hire new programmer
    • With R01, NTT Data, Phenix R24 funding need another programmer
    • Also possible CZI and ChimeraX R24 would need this
    • Scooter suggests putting up job announcement now and evaluate applicants gradually, long process

Action Items

  • Evaluate if qt shim handling PyQt5 and PySide2, PyQt6, PySide6 is feasible. TomG
  • Figure out what additional plato directories need backup. Scooter
  • Try to setup 2-factor authentication for vpn, Scooter
  • Test new vpn on linux and document. Scooter
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