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May Community Conversation

ColdFront announces the launch of an open-format community series to share updates, gather user input, and collaborate on ColdFront development. This will be the first in a series of regular monthly meetings. Come join us!

This meeting covered recent developments, plugin demos, storage integration efforts, and best practices within the ColdFront ecosystem.

🗣️ Intro & Community Engagement

  • 0:10 – Dori (Univ. at Buffalo) opens the meeting
  • 0:54 – Mentimeter polls used to learn about attendees’ ColdFront usage, location, and customization levels.

🚀 Project Updates & Open Source Ecosystem Vision

  • 5:10 – Collaboration with Harvard and Indiana University for an NSF grant.
  • 6:45 – CI/CD, governance, and community GitHub transition planned.

🧑‍💻 Community Contributions & Technical Progress

  • 8:50 – Community contributions, REST API, and repo stats shared.

📦 Storage Plugin Discussions

  • 15:00 – Shared ideas on developing portable plugins for Lustre, Vast, etc.

🛠️ Managing Customizations

  • 24:00 – Experiences customizing ColdFront, schema divergence, Git workflows.

🔌 Plugin Coordination

  • 32:00 – Use GitHub issues for preserved community collaboration.

🧾 ColdFront as Source of Truth

  • 37:00 – Some use ColdFront for access control, others sync with external systems.

⚙️ Slurm Plugin Integration

  • 42:00 – REST API use, banking, and syncing usage with XDMoD discussed.

📅 Looking Ahead

  • 52:00 – Future focus on storage plugin spec and cross-institution collaboration.