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

2. How can community support HDF5?v
Release testing
Porting to new platforms
Bug reporting (source, documentation)
Bug fixing, adding new features, documentation
Contribute 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. The HDF Group Support Packages
Community
Basic
Pro
Premier
Online Knowledgebase + Community Forum
Training Videos
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

7. Questions?