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Thoughts on Collaboration

Thoughts on Collaboration. G. Watts University of Washington, Seattle ACAT 2014 Sept. 4, 2014. I’m Scared. As an experimentalist… ROOT & GEANT4 are like air They just exist They are foundations Moving to new support partnerships with others: Lifecycle same length as us?

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Thoughts on Collaboration

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  1. Thoughts on Collaboration G. Watts University of Washington, Seattle ACAT 2014 Sept. 4, 2014

  2. I’m Scared • As an experimentalist… • ROOT & GEANT4 are like air • They just exist • They are foundations • Moving to new support partnerships with others: • Lifecycle same length as us? • Will we end up supporting anyway? • Never seen an open source project last this long • Linux, gcc are perhaps the only examples

  3. I’m excited • Getting our software to interop with others means living in a much more modular world • Each small project would be owned by a small group. • The small project would have one main focus • Presumably would do it quite well

  4. I’m scared • Involving others, like industry, means we have to incorporate their development priorities. • Especially when we are first starting one of our projects • Will the experiments be able to get even less of what they want?

  5. Excited • Smaller units, more easily testable!!! • Less bugs? • Pull in more of the current open source tools • A decent package manager and distribution system would have to be adopted • This means it would be easier for a single person to pull in a wider variety of tools. • Perhaps this is not a plus! ;-)

  6. Scared • This could be seen as just a way to grab other people’s funding • We use their money for our goals • The funding agencies are already wise to this • We will have to make sure that we understand and contribute to their research and goals • This will require real effort on our part • Not always focused on producing more physics

  7. Excited • Perhaps wider adoption in our field of nice external tools • Github, etc. • Outreach to other communities • There are lots of ideas we can probably adopt too!

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