Affinity Groups

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Connect communities by providing tools and spaces for communication.

Groups are managed by community coordinators; some link to external communication channels, while others use the group for communication.

Want a new Affinity Group? Start a community or enhance visibility with features like:

  • Links to communication channels, documentation, news, and events.
  • Announcements from coordinators and optional member discussion via email.

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Customizing the OOD Backend

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.

ruby programming
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Genomics with OOD

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

data-analysis gatk genomics bioinformatics
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LLMs and OOD

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.

llm computer-science
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New to OOD Group
New to Open OnDemand

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

community-outreach workforce-development
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OOD Affinity Group Coordinators

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

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OOD in the Classroom

This group is for discussion and sharing of tips and best practices for using Open OnDemand 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.  

training workforce-development
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OOD Multilingual Community

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

documentation open-ondemand community-outreach training
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OOD on Azure

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.

cloud azure cloud-computing
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OOD Project Design

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

scaling workflow project-management
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Open OnDemand Security Best Practices

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

data-security cybersecurity secure-data-architecture
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Structural Biology OOD Apps

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.

optimization structural-biology
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Web Apps & Absolute URLs with OOD
Web Apps and Absolute URLs with OOD

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.

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