= Attendees =

* Eric, TomG, Elaine, Greg, Scooter, Tristan

= Agenda =
* Action items
* Splash screen
* Next steps on R01 renewal
* ChimeraX release progress, early April release date.
* New hire job [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-b7aSL5UmEbQRYno3GXO2nyIJDOtaq4LntqhGSctrA/edit description]
* SPOKE
* Funding
  * NTT Data - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/17qUf02UIClFEmNinBcHIdM920V1ffDemtzmSoePYa7A/edit?usp=sharing task order] 
  * R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021

= Discussion =

* SPOKE
  - Elaine and Scooter discussed slow progress on SPOKE objectives.
  - Scooter says they will be writing a SPOKE paper, about 5-7 pages.

* ChimeraX splash screen
  - User reported splash screen not reflective of user diversity
  - Most startup-times are around 2 seconds (ticket #4379), so splash screen not useful, unpleasant flash at startup.
  - Eric will remove splash screen and move team photo to About dialog.
  - Greg will look into showing install status for long Toolshed installs that occur at ChimeraX startup.

* R01 proposal
  - Discussed 5 innovation ideas emailed by TomG
  - Molecular simulations - want to connect this strongly to cryoEM needs.
  - UMAP visualization, dimension reduction
    - Tristan mentions cryoDRGN for multi-conformational EM might be a UMAP cryoEM application.
    - Tristan suggests umap for visualizing rotamers defined by 5 or more parameters (torsion angles?)
  - Large tiled image data - this is one new frontier of diverse data type handling.
  - Video docs, did not have time to discuss
  - Toolshed support for PyPi or Conda distributions by third-party developers.
    - This is meant to be complementary to current Toolshed
    - Conda is a standard PyMol installation method, also standalone binary available.
    - Scooter notes PyMol has plugin manager that can pull plugins for various sites.  Nice UI.
  - Also need R01 proposal to continue porting high-impact Chimera tools.
 
= Action Items =

* 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