# 20210902 meeting notes * date & time: Thu September 2nd 2021 - 2pm CEST (12:00 UTC) * (every first Thursday of the month) * venue: *(online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)* * agenda: - Quick introduction by new people - EESSI-related meetings in last month - Progress update per EESSI layer - 2021.06 version of pilot repository - AWS/Azure sponsorship update - Update on EESSI journal paper + S4 NeIC project proposal - Q&A ### Slides * *(coming soon)* ### Meeting notes *(by Kenneth, Bob)* #### Quick introduction by new people - ... #### EESSI-related meetings in last month - CVMFS coordination meeting (Bob) - Kenneth: can/should we bundle module files and corresponding installation directories? - this would trigger probably too much stuff being downloaded on 'module load'... - Dennis: can bundles also be used to control what part of the CVMFS repo is downloded on a Stratum 1? - no, but it does affect what's being cached - meeting with SURF on leveraging Azure credits for EESSI #### Progress update per EESSI layer ##### Filesystem layer - ... ##### Compatibility layer - Kenneth: how do we know when the security bot has issues? - Terje: can be part of the monitoring framework - Kenneth: how many custom ebuild files do we still have in our overlay? - Bob: only a few: archspec, ReFrame ##### Software layer - ... #### 2021.06 version of pilot repository - ... #### AWS/Azure update - There will be a public Slack channel for requesting access to Azure resources. #### Update on EESSI journal paper + S4 NeIC project proposal - ... #### Q&A - Thomas has been working on a document that lists the risks of (using) EESSI. He will share the document, and maybe present a few slides about the topic during the next monthly meeting.