Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 8: Wed 8 Mar, 1400 UTC

Next meeting: Wed 22 Mar, 1400 UTC

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

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