Attendees

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

January 12, 2023

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.6 roadmap
• Deprecating Chimera, license support
• Retirement plans
• NIAID new statement of work
• New hardware
• New hire requirements
• Review Action Items listed below

Discussion Notes

• Email filtering with ProofPoint
  • Security audit wants CGL email to use ProofPoint
  • Currently it silently discards Python attachments
  • Other UCSF ProofPoint users (e.g. Dave Agard) has had trouble with mail going to spam folder.

• ChimeraX 1.6 roadmap
  • Next release planned for May 2023, with release candidates in April.
  • R01 annual report due 6 weeks before award date which is Sept 20, so early August.
  • Developer meeting will trim down current 1.6 roadmap goals to manageable set.

• Deprecating Chimera, license support
  • Decided to continue selling Chimera licenses but add language saying there is no support, no development, no future releases planned, possible loss of web services.
  • Add banner to Chimera web page saying to use ChimeraX.

• Retirement plans
  • R01 grant funded for 4 years, Sept 20, 2022 - 2026
  • Elaine, Eric, Greg, Tom G, Zach all plan to work that full period.
  • Scooter plans to retire in 2 years.
  • Tom Ferrin plans to reduce work from current 3 days to 1 day per week.

• RBVI future plans
  • Should we pursue finding another PI to take over RBVI projects?
  • Would need support of majority of Pharm Chem faculty.
  • Other option for RBVI continuing beyond current 4 year R01 would be to see if Altos Labs (Tristan Croll) or CZI Imaging Institute wants to host future development.
  • Tom and Scooter will talk to dept chair Michelle Arkin about lab future plans.

• Computer security audit
  • 52 security actions identified over past year, all but 3 completed.
  • Has taken more than a year and a lot of Scooter and Tom Ferrin's time.

Action Items

• Clean up VirtualHosts on our web servers -- Greg/Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux -- Scooter
• Audit followup -- Scooter