Attendees

• Eric, TomG, Greg, Elaine, Scooter, TomF

Agenda

• Action items
• Review current R01 aims, can they be used for next R01?
• Review current R01 reviewer comments to improve next R01.
• ChimeraX release progress, early April release date.
• Summary of last ChimeraX meeting, Toolshed fixes.
• New hire job ​description
• SPOKE
• Funding
  • NTT Data - ​task order
  • R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021

Discussion

• Review of 2018 R01 aims for reuse in R01 renewal
  • Aim 1, diverse data, 2d plots, new tools and web services -- still all relevant.
  • Aim 2, cryoEM viz and modeling -- need to figure out how to distinguish new R01 effort from Tristan's ISOLDE, Phenix R24, CZI cryo proposal.
  • Aim 3, support outside developers, Toolshed - new R01 needs to shift from implementing toolshed to other aspects of developer siupport
  • TomF emphasizes that overall impact is most important factor in R01, not innovation. Innovation is just one of 5 scored aspects (significance, investigators, innovation, approach, environment).

• Movie making tools for new R01
  • Many users try to use unfinished Animate tool in Chimera.
  • Eric says scenes and movie making not in 2018 R01 proposal.

• Request ChimeraX wish-lists from users, e.g. Adam Frost
  • Might also post general wish-list request to Twitter similar to Tristan's #WeNeedChimeraX twitter campaign

• How to restart plato services
  • Eric says Scooter and Greg are most knowledgable, both on vacation now.
  • Eric says on plato "sudo pcs status" shows broken services
  • Then "sudo pcs resourcecleanup" fixes lots of things
  • TomF says yesterday web site difficulties from BGFS filesystem failure
  • SFLD web site down, Eric fixed with pcs resourcecleanup.

• Creative commons license for ChimeraX images
  • TomF proposes replacing copyright notices on ChimeraX web images with Creative Commons license to encourage reuse of our images.
  • Elaine suggests CC0 license flavor for permissive reuse.

• ChimeraX meeting summary
  • Last week meeting discussed 1.2 release Toolshed tickets
  • Two toolshed fixes prioritized for release
  • Eric releasing color key gui, just in but not documented or tested much.
  • Will skip release candidate to avoid 1.2rc version difficulties with Toolshed
  • Release 1.2 early April. Wait a few weeks before advertising. Release 1.2.1 if major bugs found.

Action Items

• Read last R01 specific aims and reviewer comments for next group meeting, Everyone
• Buy Mac Mini with Apple Silicon and KVM switch, TomF
• 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