We are pleased to announce a new series of workshops initiated and supported by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). The PyHEP "Python in HEP" workshops aim to provide an environment to discuss and promote the usage of Python in the HEP community at large.

The first workshop, PyHEP 2018, will …

We are happy to announce that the S2I2-HEP Strategic Plan and Community White Paper documents are now available:

• Strategic Plan for a Scientific Software Innovation Institute (S2I2) for High Energy Physics - arXiv 1712.06592
• A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s (Community White Paper) - arXiv …

Many of us will attend the first S2I2 workshop beginning tomorrow at NCSA in Urbana, Illinois to discuss collaboration the challenges towards growing successful collaborations between HEP and computer science research communities. The workshop agenda can be found [here][http://hep.physics.illinois.edu/hepg/S2I2-HEP-CS-WKSHP/home.html].

Symmetry magazine ran a nice article on the DIANA/HEP project.

“The software we used to build the LHC and perform our analyses is 20 years old,” says Peter Elmer, a physicist at Princeton University. “Technology evolves, so we have to ask, does our software still make sense today? Will …

We are proud to announce that DIANA/HEP has been funded by the National Science Foundation's Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program. We are just kicking off the project, and will be updating these web pages and adding posts as we go along.

We have created DIANA-HEP GitHub Organization …