 So thank you everybody for joining today's NFCore Bitesiders talk. Usually these short talks are about specific topics like how to develop code within the NFCore framework or about a specific pipeline, things like that. Today's a little bit different because we're going to go over the results of the NextFlow and NFCore Community Survey. Those of you who are on Twitter and who are on the NFCore Slack will have seen me requesting everybody to take a few minutes to fill in this survey back at the start of the year around January, February time. And basically it's something we're trying to do annually to really take a snapshot of all the different people using NextFlow. Here everyone is, why everyone is using NextFlow, what works, what doesn't work, to try and prioritise development and also really get a feel for what needs the most attention both in the community and in the software. So apologies for that spam back at the start of the year if you kind of had that in multiple channels but many thanks to everybody who filled it in. Those of you who followed through on click that link will have ended up on the SecuraLabs webpage which looked like this and you kind of went through and followed the multi-step survey. One of the main reasons we want to do this survey is because NextFlow and NFCore are co-funded by a Chan Zuckerberg initiative grant. This particular grant is called a diversity and inclusion grant through the essential open source for science programme. And the focus of this particular grant that we're on is about trying to basically what the grant cycle is improve the diversity and inclusion both geographically and through every other metric. And in order to actually track whether we're doing a good job we need some kind of metrics it's very difficult to track this but one of the things we want to use is this survey basically. And so by doing it pretty early on within the scope of this grant we're hoping we can track improvement over the next two years time or time. So it's really important for us within the context of community growth and funding. So let's dig in. Those of you who are active on Twitter may have noticed a SecuraLabs treat went out a couple of hours ago. There is a blog post on SecuraLabs website all about this with the infographics. So you can find all of this information dig into it yourself if you haven't done already. I'm going to go through some of the key conclusions in this talk and I'm also going to put out a few additional statistics which didn't make it into the infographic just so that you don't feel like I'm repeating myself completely. Let's start off with some community demographics. Firstly as hopefully we already knew and hoped we have very global community which I love. The majority of the users are based in the US and in the UK and certainly in Europe. That's kind of fairly inevitable from our origins of the community and also mirrors the density of people working in the field in bioinformatics. But there was I think 36 different countries in the respondents list which is fantastic. I'm sure that's up a lot since the last few years. So that's really nice to see. We're increasingly spreading around the world and let's see if we can push these numbers up and make that map go even more blue for the next year. The majority of people we asked what your kind of favourite primary language for reading and writing was. Most of you picked English which is not a surprise. But there's quite a lot of people speaking other languages as well. We have a pretty terrible gender equality but I'm not sure that's just our fault. I think it's probably indicative of a wider issue but that's definitely something that could of course be improved if anyone has any ideas. And yeah there's a pretty wide range of people. Lots of early stage researchers using Nexplo and lots of people kind of well into that career as well. So it's really nice to see these kinds of things and get a feel for whoever one is. So I said there's lots of languages. You can see English is up there at the top but there's a long long tail and interestingly a lot of people kind of bundled into that other category there. So again there's a nod to how diverse our community is already. And this is really useful for example if we want to prioritise any efforts to translate material. We know which languages are most important to our community. Digging into a bit more of what it is that everybody does. Very similar to last year the majority of people who filled in the survey are classed themselves as bind mathematicians. A few other people kind of with different categories. Job categories is always difficult. You can kind of look into the others category of people. Some kind of an identity crisis issues going on there. But most people are kind of bind mathematicians working with biological data. Lots of people within academia and research but also a lot of people in biotech startups especially that seems to be growing since last year and kind of pharma and clinical work. So that's really interesting to see as kind of Nexplo matures and gets more heavily adopted. It's branching out out of academia a little bit into the wider community. Lots of people who filled in the survey have only recently started using Nexplo which is really interesting. Still under a year for the majority of people who filled in the survey. So welcome all of you. So even though some of the statistics came up similar to last year we're actually looking at a lot of people here who are new and I think that's fantastic. It shows I haven't saturated the market by any means. There's still lots of people who don't know about Nexplo and lots of people joining the community all the time. Generally you're a very happy bunch. Everybody likes Nexplo which is good maybe as a bias in who fills in the survey here but generally everyone seems to say that they're very happy with Nexplo and with the community. The vast majority of you would recommend and I believe do recommend the Nexplo to your colleagues. And that's actually slightly better than last year. So even slightly better satisfaction rate which is which is never a bad thing. So always been to improve at the top. Something that didn't make it into a blog post but I think is one of the more interesting parts of the survey is those of you who felt frustrated in Nexplo. It's not complete kind of paradox here. I think it's fine to be say you're satisfied with Nexplo but you are occasionally feeling frustrated with it. That's natural with any programming language. And so if you've ever felt like this you're not alone. Most of us have at times felt frustrated with Nexplo. If I dug into that a little bit and started reading you know there's 300 and something free text responses here about why all of you have felt frustrated. The common themes that jumped out to me were familiar to many of you. I'm sure the fact that Nexplo works with groovy which is not one of the mainstream languages for mind-formatics people. A lot of people say they often struggle to interpret what the error messages mean. It's people saying it can be quite difficult to get into Nexplo and NFCOR that has a steep learning curve. And a few people saying that things the community is so active. Things are moving so fast it was difficult to stay up up to date which is kind of a double-edged sword there. There's lots of activity which is great but it can be difficult to keep up. So just for those of you who filled in this question know that we hear you. These are all things we're aware of within Nexplo and NFCOR and things that we're always trying to improve on. I went a bit further because I could and threw together a quick word cloud here but all the things that annoy you just as a kind of you know form of venting I guess. Remember it can't be all that bad because you're all really happy. So a couple more questions here. People asking why you're running Nexplo and first two categories people running and writing their own workflows basically about doing analysis for themselves. The next two categories are people running and building workflows for other people. So kind of like core groups and things like that and a handful of you building larger systems that include Nexplo. And when it comes to the workflows you're using lots of people building their own workflows which of course are expected but a fantastic number of you using NFCOR workflows. Now again in fairness there's probably some bias here. We pushed out this survey through NFCOR channels amongst others so I would sort of hope that at least some of you were using NFCOR pipelines but still it's a fantastic to see so many people responding that they are using NFCOR workflows on a regular basis and this is really valuable resource. But then you're also quite promiscuous you know it's not just Nexplo. Over half of users are using more than one workflow tool which I thought was I was quite surprised by this result. Lots of you using Snakemake and Nexplo Galaxy so CWL whatever you need to kind of get a job done. So just because you're very happy with Nexplo doesn't mean you're blind to all the alternatives and that's no bad thing. It's good to have some competition and cross-fertilization of ideas. When it comes to where you're in kind of your compute environments everyone uses the majority just like last year still running on kind of HPCs on premises and clusters and also single computers and that's not something we expect to change massively in the near future. But there is an uptick in the number of people using cloud. If you compare to the last year the categories are pretty much the same but basically there's a bit of a bit of an increase in the people who are using private clouds especially. Is that right or have I got the other way around? Anyway decrease in the number of people using HPCs. For those of you who are running with HPCs the majority use Slam. That's definitely the most common scheduler followed by Grid Engine and that's again similar to last year so and we see that in the community on Slack people posting questions lots of people using Slam. Quite a lot of people using public cloud today and quite a lot of people planning to move towards a cloud lots of people are looking in that direction and when we compare the different types of cloud to different public clouds available AWS Amazon is by far the most popular but Azure has a kind of a climbing rank there and again if you break this down by where people are answering from lots of people in academia working with clusters and public cloud is super popular within private sector maybe it's not that surprising but up to 77% of people within public within private sector using using cloud now. Last year we asked about Kubernetes a bit of a hot topic for those of you who know about it lots of people a small number of people I think it was about 8% last year who are already using Kubernetes lots of people saying you're planning to use Kubernetes in the future so we're curious to see if anything had changed in the year it hasn't so there's pretty much exactly the same number of people saying that they are actively using Kubernetes today across the various different Kubernetes solutions but again lots of people saying that they're interested in it so moving forward we'll see if anything changes there in the future. We asked the bits about the kind of different traits the reasons that you use the next one what things do you find important when when you're kind of choosing which tool to use and the winner of this category was definitely documentation I'm totally with you on this one I've got a soft spot for trying to put together documentation for tools and yes the documentation and performance of the two all kind of outstanding categories here and when we asked you okay within documentation and kind of learning materials what's what to use the most what's most useful the official documentation the reference documentation came top and NF core came came a close second so that's great to see everyone is using the documentation that we've been building and this is definitely a hot topic for us right now we're really I think we've got lots of room for improvement with documentation so it's kind of it's good to see this survey went out just before the next flow slack went live so everyone was still using the next flow getter at that point but we asked about the NF core slack and the vast majority of people who responded knew about and used the NF core slack which is great so not only is the NF core community kind of building pipelines and standards but it's also a big support channel and lots of people are also feeding back into the community nearly 30% of people are contributing back to these NF core community pipelines so it's really good to see it's a two-way street there um apparently no one really wants a graphical interface for their workflow managers but you can see documentation really stands out as being very important for lots of people um yes and then also we're kind of thinking about uh integrations and this is more kind of tooling again it's quite detailed here um but a lot of you want to be able to optimize computational resources which makes sense unit tests was a popular category here um so this is great this is kind of real fodder here for feeding into the the next way development process and and of course to really prioritize which which topics need to be tackled right um i'm going to wrap up there uh you can go and look into this in more detail yourself and make your own conclusions on the secure website and we've got the blog post which went live this morning uh so you can click through to that um if you have any questions maybe i'll just quickly check the questions now before we go on right okay um in that case i will hand over at this point to evan um CEO of Secura um and evan is going to share with us a live draw for the present surprises um because there was definitely an ulterior motive for some of you to fill in this survey and with that i'll stop i'll stop sharing and i'll pass over to evan okay thanks a lot phil this should be pretty short here um let's see if we can go through but what we have is as part of the survey we had so around uh 10 people uh 10 prizes which were set up for uh for our next flow and Secura Labs merchandise packs um so as part of that we took all of the names um and we placed them into this big uh sort of circular prize drawer here um and from there we draw we drew 10 people we just did this earlier on this morning mostly because it takes some time but if you want to watch it you can kind of go through the whole thing so the winners of the of the merchandise packs that we had as part of that we've got uh Jacob um Stefano uh Susanna, Anka, Lizzie, Yokei, Nicholas, Adam, Avinat and and Chela so we'll reach out to all of you send you out the link where you can get this they've got a hoodie in there um we've got t-shirts um hats uh and some and some cool next look socks as well so thanks to everyone for for doing that the the next part of it um is around the the prize for the uh for the Mac so as part of that we're going to do that live and I'm going to share my screen here and hopefully be able to do this so again this is the similar thing where everyone's names being entered into this um and we will draw the winner um you know to that it's hopefully you can um share a part of my screen here um to do that okay it wasn't too far off so this will take about 10 seconds or so to run through um and we will have the winner so let's start that off now so it's been around and the winner of the Mac M1 for the prize is Michael H from USA so congratulations Michael will reach out to you um and and send you through an email with the information and uh and go from that that's it I think thanks so much to Phil for for bringing that presentation together as I say if you want to go reach out um and have a look at the blog um we're going to try and do these more sort of regularly this is the second year of this and a lot of this information becomes um sort of more useful the um the more it's work I'm not sure for some reason my my video is off but here here I am I'm a real person so thanks everyone for for joining me I'm say read the blog reach out to us if you've got any questions always appreciate everyone's work and uh yeah thanks so much uh thank you very much um are there any questions for Phil or Evan from the audience I don't think so um then I would like to thank both of you and uh also the Jen Zuckerberg Foundation for funding of course and I'm going to stop the recording now um but be aware that you can always ask more about the day's topic in the bite size channel on Slack and um yeah contact us if you have any other questions