Galaxy Working Groups and Projects
Distributing project guidance to the community
Keywords: Tactical emphasis, short and medium term planning, area/domain/component focused, applied
Galaxy has grown a lot over the years, going from a project at one university in 2005 to the global community it is today. Several parts of the Galaxy ecosystem have become avowedly and obviously community driven during that time, including tools, code, training, and several other international efforts. Galaxy Working Groups push this global model to other areas of Galaxy as well. Working groups are an integral part of the Galaxy Governance Model.
Current set of Working Groups
The current set of working groups includes these areas:
Focus on Galaxy administration, maintenance, and installation.
- Google Drive
- Gitter Chat
- GitHub Project Admin
- GitHub Project Deployment
- Leadership: Nate Coraor
Focus on the Galaxy server code and architecture.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Channel
- Leadership: Marius van den Beek, John Chilton
The UI / UX group focuses on the Galaxy user interface and experience. We work on the parts of Galaxy that end users see.
- GitHub Project
- Gitter Chat
- Google Drive
- Leadership: Dannon Baker, Aysam Guerler
Testing and hardening the Galaxy ecosystem, developing and maintaining test infrastructure.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Channel
- Leadership: John Chilton, John Davis
Tool use is what Galaxy enables. This group works on improving Galaxy's tools ecosystem.
- Charter
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Chat Channel
- Tools Working Group Assignments
- Leadership: Alex Ostrovsky
This group builds the standards and ecosystem for execution, testing, publishing and improving workflows, workflow features and workflow performance.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Channel
- Leadership: Marius van den Beek
Coordinate and guide Galaxy's Outreach & Training efforts, as well as user, admin, and developer support and documentation. Galaxy Outreach And Training (And) Support = GOATS!
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Channel
- Support Charter and Priorities
- Leadership: Delphine Lariviere
Communications across working groups.
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- Please consider joining if you are involved in any working group.
Current set of Projects
The current set of projects includes these areas:
This project emphasizes applying Galaxy in cancer research.
- GitHub Project
- Google Drive
- Gitter Channel
- Leadership: Luke Sargent
This project emphasizes applying Galaxy in human research.
- Google Drive
- Goals Slide
- Leadership: Enis Afgan
This project emphasizes analysis of SARS-CoV-2.
- Project Page
- Leadership: Anton Nekrutenko, Wolfgang Maier
Collaboration Between VGP and Galaxy Project for free and easy access to large genome assembly workflows.
- Slack Channel
- Github Project
- Leadership: Delphine Lariviere
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive or final list of working groups or projects. New groups will be added as needs are identified.
Calendar
Galaxy WGs Google Calendar, listing meetings of all Galaxy working groups and projects. You can subscribe to this calendar via this iCalendar link.
Timeline
In reverse chronological order:
2021-09-01: Reorganization of working groups and projects
This call merged Admin and Deployment into Systems, and Outreach & Training and Support into GOATS. It also differentiated between working groups and projects.
2021-01-07: Launch follow up
This call was a follow up to see how our first month went, and how goal setting and tracking from 2021-Q1 was going. The recording of that call is available.
2020-12-10: Launch
Galaxy Working Groups were launched on the December 10, 2020 Galaxy Developer Roundtable call. The recording of that call is available.