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    <p>Hi everyone,<br>
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      It's taking me a bit too long to say hi. As Jonas mentioned
      earlier I'm taking over sciserver maintainance duties from him.
      Ultimately I'm here to make sure you can get your job done as
      smoothly as possible with sciserver. I'm coming from a software
      engineering and devops background, as well as being an open source
      fan.<br>
      <br>
      To not spam you let me briefly mention my immediate goals which
      are basically 2:<br>
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      <li><i>Maintain and upgrade sciserver</i>. I've already met with
        the creators from John Hopkins and have a better idea of what
        are the future plans for it. Together with the leaders of
        HE/Opinas groups, we're analyzing the different upgrades paths
        available. Sidenote, I need to thank Jonas Haase for his always
        positive attitude and friendly support as he continues to guide
        me through this complex piece of software (and hardware).</li>
      <li><i>Incentivate collaboration via matrix</i>
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://matrix.to/#/#python:mpe.mpg.de">https://matrix.to/#/#python:mpe.mpg.de</a>). Although I don't know
        a lot of astronomy/astrophysics, I am happy to provide help in
        software areas such as python (and a couple other langs). There
        are no stupid questions, I'm just here to help you get your work
        done. If you are part of MPE then you already have an account at
        chat.mpe.mpg.de ,if you're from outside the institute, you can
        use/create an account from any public matrix provider
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://app.element.io/#/register">https://app.element.io/#/register</a>) and join the channel with
        the first link.</li>
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      I'm summarizing a lot, but if you have any questions whatsoever
      about how sciserver works, or what is the best way to achieve a
      project you have in mind, or are stuck with a coding problem,
      please reach out at any time.<br>
      <br>
      Finally, a quick <b>technical annoucement</b>. Different
      institutes at MPG have decided to switch the default anaconda
      repositories. This is due to their (Anaconda Inc.) recent changes
      in licensing. What this comes down to for us, is that you are <i>_strongly_</i>
      invited to switch to the conda-forge repositories, then carry on
      as usual. New compute instances will slowly be updated so this
      config is automatic. In the meantime, this 2 commands take care of
      it:<br>
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    <p><font face="monospace">conda config --add channels conda-forge<br>
        conda config --remove channels defaults</font><br>
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      Best,</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29.08.24 15:23, Mara Salvato wrote:<br>
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      Dear Jonas, 
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        <div class="">on behalf of all of us, happy users of
          Sciserver@MPE, I thank you for setting up the system, helping
          us take full advantage of it, and babysitting us even when it
          was not your responsibility!</div>
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        <div class="">Thanks also for helping Joel to get familiar with
          the system.  </div>
        <div class="">We can now look into the wish list of improvements
          we collected from our survey in 2023!</div>
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        <div class="">For those of you that did not meet Joel yet:</div>
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        <div class="">his email address is <a
            href="mailto:joel.gil@mpe.mpg.de"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">joel.gil@mpe.mpg.de</a></div>
        <div class="">At MPE he is sitting in office 1.3.21</div>
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        <div class="">Thanks,</div>
        <div class="">Mara</div>
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              <div class="">On 29. Aug 2024, at 14:56, Jonas Haase <<a
                  href="mailto:jhaase@mpe.mpg.de"
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                  <div class="">I would like you all to give a warm
                    welcome to our new MPE SciServer administrator Joel
                    Gil Leon!</div>
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                  <div class="">Joel started earlier this months and is
                    already busy delving into all the technical details
                    of the SciServer, making plans to update it and to
                    ensure that it remains a useful tool in the future.</div>
                  <div class="">Feel free to contact Joel if you have
                    questions, need other support or have suggestions
                    for future improvements.</div>
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                  <div class="">I am taking a (further) step back from
                    the project to concentrate on the Euclid IT
                    administration, but will of course still be around.</div>
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                  <div class="">cheers</div>
                  <div class="">Jonas</div>
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                                      Max Planck Institute for
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                                      Giessenbachstr. 1, 85748
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