2021-11-10 All-hands meeting notes

General updates

@Karmen Condic-Jurkic

• Good feedback on benchmarking, blog posts, etc.

  • KCJ – KMeier and CSchindler have made comments about positive experience with benchmarking and blog posts

  • DM – Agree, I’ve really enjoyed the blog posts, and it’s a good way to keep internal and external people up to date.

• KCJ – Confluence is a bit overgrown, I’m consumed with OMSF startup and other duties. So we have an opening for a project manager to help with this.

• KCJ – We have renewed with all industry partners for the coming year. We’ve gained a new partner, Redesign science, and we may get AstraZeneca as well. So things are looking good from the industry front.

• KCJ – I’m looking into a quick way to turn blog posts into PDFs and attaching a DOI.

Infrastructure roadmap

@Jeffrey Wagner

• Recap: What is the roadmap? Why have a roadmap?

  • The roadmap is a way for…

    • external people to see what we’re doing

    • us to catch gaps in our overall plans

    • us to agree on priority/order for different goals

    • new personnel to identify major tasks that they could help with

    • developers and scientists to be accountable to each other

  • We have a roadmap because there are multiple sources of truth for what the org is doing:

    • Our heads - “Here’s what I’m doing today, here’s what I’m doing tomorrow”

    • What we’ve committed to do (“Biopolymers in 2022!”)

    • Our hiring/personnel plans (“Do we need more Matts or Simons?”)

• Process for roadmap review

  • do a first pass of the roadmap to recognize completion of items that are "done" (purple rows in the confluence table)

  • collect newly proposed items

  • vote yea/nay on items proposed for addition or removal (green and red rows in the confluence table)

  • (re)assign priorities and personnel as appropriate

• https://openforcefield.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IN/pages/1926070363