Attendees

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

Agenda

• Action items
• Next steps on R01 renewal
• ChimeraX release progress, early April release date.
• New hire job ​description
• SPOKE
• Funding
  • NTT Data - ​task order
  • R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021

Discussion

• March monthly report for NTT Data contract
  • Scooter will be sending draft to be submitted end of month
  • Use same color for all past accomplishments, new color for latest.

• Native Apple Silicon ChimeraX
  • Ben Webb described Modeller port to Apple M1 in email
  • Some users have asked about native version
  • Would need Apple M1 machine to try to compile and get all dependencies built
  • All dynamic libraries must be for ARM CPU, cannot mix Intel
  • Hold up buying Apple M1 is because UCSF is auditing computer purchases.
  • Tom F will ask Andrej Sali how he purchased Mac Mini M1
  • Greg says Intel and ARM Mac builds could be in one universal distribution
  • Current Mac distribution is 400 Mbytes and nearly doubling that will make it very slow to download, so might want two distributions.

• CZI Essential Software RFA
  • Letter of intent due March 30, final submission May 17
  • What can we put into a CZI proposal that would not go into R01?
    • Port opal chimera web services to rest chimerax
    • Port to apple silicon
    • other porting of some chimera tools
  • Budget 50-200K / year for two years
  • Could ask for 0.5 FTE for better chance at funding.
  • Make Google Doc for proposal ideas, if sufficient ideas by Monday submit letter of intent on Tuesday

• New hire
  • Still need advise from HR about how to post job

• R01 proposal
  • Next week group meeting dedicated to writing specific aims
  • Tom Ferrin says aim to "support current users" could cause reviewer to say this is not R01 material -- so needs careful presentation
  • Enabling outside developers to make innovative new tools is better and can be treated as innovation

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