[Sciserver-users] Welcome to the new SciServer Admin

[Joel Gil]

Hi everyone,

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.

To not spam you let me briefly mention my immediate goals which are 
basically 2:

 1. /Maintain and upgrade sciserver/. 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).
 2. /Incentivate collaboration via matrix/
    (https://matrix.to/#/#python:mpe.mpg.de). 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
    (https://app.element.io/#/register) and join the channel with the
    first link.


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.

Finally, a quick *technical annoucement*. 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 /_strongly_/ 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:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --remove channels defaults


Best,


On 29.08.24 15:23, Mara Salvato wrote:
> Dear Jonas,
>
> on behalf of all of us, happy users of Sciserver at 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!
>
> Thanks also for helping Joel to get familiar with the system.
> We can now look into the wish list of improvements we collected from 
> our survey in 2023!
>
> For those of you that did not meet Joel yet:
>
> his email address is joel.gil at mpe.mpg.de
> At MPE he is sitting in office 1.3.21
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mara
>
>
>
>> On 29. Aug 2024, at 14:56, Jonas Haase <jhaase at mpe.mpg.de> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I would like you all to give a warm welcome to our new MPE SciServer 
>> administrator Joel Gil Leon!
>>
>> 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.
>> Feel free to contact Joel if you have questions, need other support 
>> or have suggestions for future improvements.
>>
>> I am taking a (further) step back from the project to concentrate on 
>> the Euclid IT administration, but will of course still be around.
>>
>> cheers
>> Jonas
>>
>> —
>> Jonas Haase
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