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title: AiiDA Team Meeting 2023-03-23
tags: [team meetings]

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# AiiDA Team Meeting 2023-03-23

###### tags: `team meetings`
###### time: 14:00 CET

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### Present

* Jason
* Giovanni
* Xing
* Chris
* Francisco
* Marnik
* Kristjan
* Sebastiaan


### Catch-up round

*Max. 3 minutes each*

Jason:
 * Dockerhub is not free for organization soon (DDL: 14th April), open source project can go to https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/ to apply for free registry. Need provide DockerID, which belongs to one of the three admins. (Sasha did this for aiidalab)
 * New AiiDAlab docker stack released with new aiidalab/aiidalab-home with robust app store. The test coverage is increased from None to 60% (`aiidalab/aiidalab`) and to 77% (`aiidalab/aiidalab-widgets-base`).

Marnik:
* Just back from conference/holiday, nothing to report on the `aiida-core` front.
* Attended some talks from the MolSSI team, you can find [their software stack here](https://molssi.org/software/). Some highlights:
    - MolSSI Driver: Standardized interface for communication between ab initio codes (~common workflows?)
    - QCArchive: FAIR database (~Materials Cloud?) and platform for running workflows (~AiiDAlab?)
    - SEAMM: Define workflows as "Flowcharts", heavy focus on GUI developed by plugins (~AiiDA?)


Kristjan:
* Almost ready to be published:
  * https://acwf-verification.materialscloud.org/
  * https://mc3d.materialscloud.org/

Chris:
* 🔃 REFACTOR: Move Scheduler/Transport behind Client API: https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/5901


Francisco:
* Nothing to report on `aiida-core` (last week working exclusively on BIG-MAP project).



Xing:
 * [XAS] Finished review and merged the XAS PR `XspectraCrystalWorkChain` https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-quantumespresso/pull/888
 * [AiiDA REST API] Create a new branch for AiiDAlab to launch calculation using AiiDA REST-API as the backend. 
     * It works! 
     * I will work more on querying the status and outputs of the process using restapi and integrate this into `aiidalab-widget-base`.

Giovanni:
- SwissTwins documents being signed - we should be albe to open positions in ~1 month (hopefully!)
- 1 more postdoc from MARVEL - ad will open in <1 month, will ask Chris to help with the hiring (do you know good candidates?)
- Quantum Mobile: Chris will prepare QM 23.03 (both VirtualBox and UTM) before the review next week
- Status of roadmap/team-compass? When can we close the old roadmap project?

Sebastiaan:
- [DaemonClient: Refactor to include parsing of client response](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/5940)
- [CLI: Respect config log levels if `--verbosity` not explicitly passed](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/5925)

### Specific Agenda Items

- Coding week? 
- Closing old roadmap

