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

• 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