EPICS Council Meeting Highlights and Updates - April 2025
Explore the latest updates from the EPICS Council Meeting led by Karen S. White on April 7, 2025. Topics cover communications, training roadmap, upcoming meetings, and more, including collaborations, learning opportunities, and roadmap developments in the EPICS community.
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Report from EPICS Council Meeting Report from EPICS Council Meeting Karen S. White Karen S. White April 7, 2025
Topics Topics Communications Training Roadmap Upcoming Meetings And more
Communications Communications EPICS Tech-talk mailing list https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/ Providing expert support for over 30 years Hosted at Argonne Thanks to Andrew Johnson New EPICS Chat using Matrix https://epics-controls.org/epics- chat/ Flexible chat room structure Hosted by Fritz Haber Institute Thanks to Heinz Jukes, Ralph Lange
Learning Learning At Collaboration Meetings EPICS Summer School HZB Berlin w/ESS and GSI 8/18-29/2025 Great success! https://events.hifis.net/event/2032/ registrations/2059/ Would like to organize similar event in the US, need volunteers (email whiteks@ornl.gov) Other ideas; USPAS, by contract,
Roadmap Roadmap Pierrick Hamlet (FNAL) is leading a team to develop the long-awaited roadmap, working with EPICS Core Developers Group
Collaboration Meetings Collaboration Meetings EPICS Collaboration Meetings 2024-2 Oak Ridge, Tennessee September 2024 Hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2025-1 Oxfordshire, UK Hosted by ISIS Neutron and Muon Source 2025-2 Chicago, Illinois (1-day) Hosted by Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with ICALEPCS 2025 2026-1 Saclay, FR April 2026 Hosted by CEA Saclay Code-a-thon, Document-a-thon February 23-26, 2026 Hosted by Diamond Light Source
You might also likeICALEPCS You might also like ICALEPCS International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems September 20-27, 2025 Hosted by Argonne National Laboratory 1-day EPICS meeting 9/20/25 https://indico.jacow.org/event/86/overview October 2027 In Japan Hosted by KEK Registration and abstract submission are open Abstracts due 4/30/25
ICALEPCS 2025 Program Conference Tracks Hardware Architecture & Synchronization Project Status Reports Control System Upgrades Sustainment and Management FPGA and Embedded Systems Functional Safety and Protection Systems Diverse Device Control and Integration Infrastructure and Cyber Security Software Architecture and Technology Evolution Software Development and Management Tools Experiment Control and Data Acquisition User Interfaces ad User Experience Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Digital Twins and Simulation Feedback Systems and Optimization Date Management and Analytics
How do we pay for EPICS? How do we pay for EPICS? EPICS is open source but not free, but also not funded The EPICS Collaboration does not receive any specific funding to maintain and improve the software, but this work is essential to ensure future viability The collaboration relies on donated labor from organizations using EPICS software The collaboration provides an incredible community of support (free, see tech-talk)
You and your organization You and your organization can can should should help help If your organization benefits from EPICS, consider how you can help New projects are well positioned to fund new capabilities Tell your boss EPICS needs your organization to donate time/money to help with maintenance, testing, support, development or documentation You can donate labor or fund a contract developer What would you use if you did not have EPICS?
How can you get involved? How can you get involved? Opportunities to join working groups such as EPICS core, CS-Studio, more Send someone to a code-a-thon or document-a-thon You can work with international experts => develop more advanced skills that benefit your professional development and your effectiveness for your home organization Leadership, host an EPICS Collaboration Meeting, code-a-thon, document-a-thon or developer s meeting Win-win-win: Good for you, good for your lab, good for EPICS Ralph Lange
Good people from diverse fields working together can make major scientific discoveries that are denied geniuses working in isolation. -Alvin Weinberg EPICS is only as good as its collaborators
