promote EasyBuild

[boegel]

(old internal ticket 9)

(note: keep this overview up-to-date by editing this issue, and mention new promo-actions as a reply)

Promote EasyBuild on suitable venues:

conferences/magazines:

• [x] HEPIX spring workshop 2012 (@JensTimmerman)
• [x] Supercomputing 2012 (@boegel, @JensTimmerman) (see notes)
  • paper at PyHPC-2012 (@ SC'12) (available here)
  • BoF session @ SC12 (not accepted) (but we did join in on Python for HPC and Small Clusters BoFs during SC12)
  • walk exhibit floor with EasyBuild business cards, talk to sysadmins of big sites (see notes)
• [ ] try and get an article in HPC-admin magazine, see e.g. article on modules (talked to editor @ SC'12, he would mention EasyBuild to the writers)

  websites:

• [x] EasyBuild webpage
• [ ] Wikipedia : add http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyBuild
• [ ] http://openscience.org/
• [ ] Intel documentation on building HPC software (e.g. see here), contact people setting this up (e.g. http://software.intel.com/en-us/blackbelt)
• [ ] HPC Advisory Network of Expertise
• [ ] Scipy once we support it (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/35)
• [ ] http://www.rescale.com/

  software-specific

• DOLFIN:
• [ ] stackoverflow question on building fenics/dolfin
• [x] let the guy who wrote dorsal know about EasyBuild

  other

• [x] order EasyBuild business cards
• [x] order EasyBuild stickers
• [ ] promote EasyBuild in bioinformatics community (@fgeorgatos)
• [ ] begrid

[boegel]

promoted EasyBuild in bug ticket for DOLFIN, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/dolfin/+bug/1016540/comments/12

[fgeorgatos]

Also this is a good list of recipients, due to potential impact: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blackbelt

We'll soon have the Intel toolkit @ Uni.Lu, anytime within next 3 months; then we'll start interacting with these fellows.

[fgeorgatos]

Hi folks,

I hope it's not too late, but I believe you should give a thought to this one (24hrs left to reconsider ;-)

https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers/ SUGGESTED TITLE: Building Applications for Science and beyond

cheers, Fotis

ps. AND I fully thank Kenneth (wearing his jacket right now) for coming around in the hackathon. (we have more pending work than what we managed really to do progress with but OK!)

[JensTimmerman]

The main track is quite a high goal, but we should definitely try to get a talk on fosdem, I did not know the submission deadline was this close. I'll look into it :-)

[JensTimmerman]

I believe a talk in the FOSS for Scientists devroom @ FOSDEM 2013 is more realistic: http://slayoo.github.com/fosdem2013/

[itkovian]

I would think a talk at FOSDEM is really worth it. Maybe we should aim for both a lightning talk (15 minutes) and a talk in that devroom jens pointed out?

[boegel]

Let's sync on that, I have some text we can use if we need a motivation.

[boegel]

@fgeorgatos: I think I have to agree with Jens, the main track is over the top.

But, we can certainly do a (or multiple) EasyBuild talks at FOSDEM. It would also be a good discussion for the next EasyBuild hackathon (given the central location and the environment).

I liked the title you suggested to me better: "Building Scientific Applications for the Masses".

[boegel]

Promoted EasyBuild at http://u14183.blogspot.be/2012/06/installing-ncbi-c-toolkit.html and http://binarybuilder.wordpress.com/ (see http://binarybuilder.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/compiling-ncbi-blast-c-applications-on-linux-with-intel-composer-xe-2013/ and http://binarybuilder.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/hello-blogger-world/).

[fgeorgatos]

hm... this issue should really be visible in the "easybuild" repo instead :)

anyway, here's another target among the zillions: http://sciencepad.web.cern.ch/

[fgeorgatos]

fyi. http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/04/02/easybuild-v13-is-out-full-support-for-latest-intel-compiler-toolchain

[boegel]

we should talk to the http://www.rescale.com/ folks too...

[boegel]

At some point, we should consider a paper in the Journal for Open Research Software, see http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies wrt the section on "Issues in Research Software"

[fgeorgatos]

and while we are at it (journals), this one could perhaps be relevant, too: http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/dongarra-team-start-new-supercomputing-journal/

F.

[rjeschmi]

showterm.io is a nice tool for capturing the use of EB in an animated way. It can then be embedded onto web pages, etc.

http://showterm.io/8a76dc964b67b6d665888#fast

[boegel]

I'll close this, no need to have an issue open for this, we already actively promote EasyBuild whenever we get the chance...