# Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 8: **Wed 8 Mar, 1400 UTC**

Next meeting: Wed 22 Mar, 1400 UTC

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**Consolidated notes are now here: https://hackmd.io/@mstimberg/HJXqYPMPo**
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## Attendees

- Reema
- Marcel
- Eliane
- Ankur

## Agenda
* Decide technical approach
* Split into separate groups (e.g. data curation, frontend logic, frontend design?)

## Actions

* Until next time: try to deploy the simple prototype to see whether there are unexpected issues
* Marcel will upload a simple prototype with fake data **DONE** (see https://github.com/OCNS/simselect/blob/main/src/project_browser.py)
* Ankur will create a docker file that we can use for *fly* (see below)
* Reema will look further into categories, etc. (cf. https://schema.org)

## Notes
- Hosting service fly:
- https://fly.io/
- free plan option: https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#free-allowances
- Discussions on the issue of 'maintainability' of the source code
- Python-based
- Pro: probably easier to find people in academia proficient in python to maintain the web app
- Pro: easy to build
- Con: deployment
- Javascript-based
- Pro: flexible functionality
- Pro: deployment
- Con: not many academics comfortable with JS

- Decision to use holoviz-panel
## Agenda for next meeting:
- split into sub-groups