Supporting HDF5 and The HDF Group Open discussion Copyright 2016, The HDF Group.

How can community support HDF5? v Release testing Porting to new platforms Bug reporting (source, documentation) Bug fixing, adding new features, documentation Contribute help@hdfgroup.org v Citations in scientific papers and article Contributions to the THG Blog Training Promote v New features and capabilities (e.g., CMake, multi-threading, plugins) Participate in defining HDF5 Roadmap Help us to improve and innovate Advise

Why it is hard to … Contribute Promote Advise No developers’ level documentation HDF5 complexity Portability requirements Closed issues dB (JIRA) Contribute v Lack of awareness Your success with HDF5 and our awareness helps us to raise money to do HDF5 Sustaining Engineering Tell us about your work (success and failure stories) Promote v No mechanism except HDF-FORUM User Group? Webinars? Advise

THG plans to do make it easier to... v Actively looking for the projects to address HDF5 complexity Lack of documentation Open JIRA, implement JIRA Service Desk and Knowledge DB Contribute v Raise awareness Your success with HDF5 and our awareness helps us to raise money to do HDF5 Sustaining Engineering Tell us about your work (success and failure stories) Promote v Establish HDF5 Advisory Committee and Users Group Advise

How can your organization support HDF5? v Every $ counts See donation button on our webpage Donations v How THG can support you on your budget? See next slide Support Agreements v THG has expertise to develop solutions Projects may be of interest to several organizations thus reducing the cost Sponsor a project

The HDF Group Support Packages Community Basic Pro Premier Online Knowledgebase + Community Forum « Training Videos   Email Support: initial response SLA No SLA < 2 days < 1 day < 4 hours Phone Support: initial response SLA Rapid Issue Response: best efforts for identifying a fix or workaround for your confirmed bugs within 5 days Binary build support C, C++, Fortran, Java .NET: C#, Visual Basic Python: h5py, PyTables, pandas R: rhdf5 Dedicated Account Manager Participate in discussions on roadmap, architecture, and standards through Technology Working Groups Steer the future of HDF with a seat on Roadmap Committee

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