Affinity Groups

This affinity group explores using OOD tools—like initializers and plugins—to customize site behaviors. The focus is on extending functionality and making the user experience simpler.

This group is for genomics researchers using Open OnDemand to share tips, troubleshoot, and discuss optimizing bioinformatics workflows.

This group explores ways to integrate LLMs with OOD, including building user-facing apps and enhancing how users interact with tools in the OOD ecosystem, and more.

This group is for users, developers, and admins new to Open OnDemand to learn, ask questions, connect, explore features, and exchange tips.

This group is for people who are Affinity Group Coordinators or who are considering being a coordinator and want to learn more.

This group is for discussion and sharing of tips and best practices for using OpenOnDemand in the classroom.  Share educational use cases, successes and challenges, OOD apps for classroom use, tips for supporting instructors, etc.   Ask questions to others supporting OOD as an educational technology.  

An affinity group for research computing teams to better serve multilingual communities by sharing resources, tools, and best practices.

This group is for anyone using or supporting Open OnDemand on Microsoft Azure to share tips, challenges, and best practices for cloud and HPC deployments.

This group connects project designers to share insights on infrastructure, development, decision-making, and better workflows.

A dedicated space for the community to discuss and share best practices for secure deployment and operation of Open OnDemand.

This group connects structural biology researchers and support staff using tools like RELION, cryoSPARC, and PHENIX on Open OnDemand to share tips, troubleshoot, and optimize workflows.

This group is for users of web apps like cryoSPARC and OpenWebUI to share solutions and best practices for using absolute URLs instead of relative ones.