HSF · eduardo-rodrigues · Apr 17, 2026 · Apr 17, 2026 · Apr 17, 2026 · Apr 17, 2026
diff --git a/projects/affiliated.md b/projects/affiliated.md
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ in [this Google document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l8Tkruo0EEHwgRBQPm
 In practice it is a good idea to copy the template and adapt to one's particular case
 (the target Tier, the relevant programming language, etc.).
 
+### Duration of the Affiliation
+
+Following the conclusion of the evaluation, affiliation is assumed to remain valid for a period of 5 years,
+at which point an iteration of the evaluation will be done to confirm continuation of the affiliation.
+
 ### HSF Project Badge
 
 The recognition of bijective engagement with the HSF is displayed via a
@@ -46,11 +51,6 @@ standards, as defined in our [guidelines]({{ site.baseurl }}/projects/guidelines
 
 Links to code snippets for the HSF project badge are on our [badges page]({{ site.baseurl }}/projects/badges.html).
 
-### Annual Project Awards
-
-The HSF envisages a scheme for Annual Project Awards.
-A concrete proposal will be presented to the [HSF Advisory Group]({{ site.baseurl }}/organization/advisory-group.html) once the latter is put in place.
-
 ## Best-practice Guidelines
 
 They are detailed in the document
@@ -79,21 +79,3 @@ The model for this process was the development of the conditions database used b
 Please refer to the document
 [HSF letters]({{ site.baseurl }}/organization/hsf-letters.html)
 on the website. The HSF continues to provide letters on the same basis.
-
-## Funding Support
-
-The HSF is a community organisation with no internal source of funding.
-It runs as a do-ocracy. In the spirit that the HSF facilitates cooperation and common efforts in HEP software and computing internationally, the HSF envisages facilitating the availability of modest financial support for community colleagues to travel and present at important events.
-This is inspired, broadly speaking, by the concept of
-[NumFOCUS Affiliated Projects](https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects).
-The HSF will highlight external funding opportunities available for software projects. 
-
-Entities interested in acting as Sponsors make themselves known to the HSF SG stating the level of funding they will make available per annum, and for what type of activity(ies) - e.g., presentation of a software package by an Early Career Scientist at a major conference, travel support for a seminar.
-The HSF SG curates the list of Sponsors on the website, displaying the requirements to be met by each Sponsor.
-The HSF will not be in charge of financial transactions, it will merely serve as a mediator.
-
-Entities can be any moral entity or persons.
-
-The HSF does not envisage delivering a programme of software development grants or any grants of any kind. It also cannot accept direct donations, which should rather be made available via a sponsor’s funding opportunity.
-
-The HSF may re-assess its indirect funding scheme at any time and the SG welcomes feedback on this new initiative.
diff --git a/projects/badges.md b/projects/badges.md
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ HSF affiliated projects or software packages are invited to use the following ba
 
 The badge is generated by [shields.io](https://shields.io) (thank you!), by embedding an HSF SVG logo in the request URL.
 
-We also have a pre-cached version available and that seem to work better for top level `README` files in GitHub.
+We also have a pre-cached version available, and that seems to work better for top level `README` files in GitHub.
 
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 The display request is quite big (6109 chars), but `shields.io` doesn't seem to mind. However, issues have been found embedding the direct output from shields into a GitHub `README`, in which case used the direct cached link instead.
-
-In a previous iteration of project affiliation there were different affiliation levels proposed (bronze, silver, gold), which are now deprecated.
diff --git a/projects/projects.md b/projects/projects.md
@@ -5,28 +5,19 @@ layout: plain
 redirect_from: /projects.html
 ---
 
-This is the list of projects which have become [HSF Affiliated]({{ site.baseurl }}/projects/affiliated.html).
+This is the list of projects that have become [HSF Affiliated]({{ site.baseurl }}/projects/affiliated.html).
 
 {:.table .table-hover .table-condensed .table-striped}
 | Name | Description | Affiliation | Year |
 | --------| ------------- |----------|-----------|
+| Pythia | Monte Carlo event generator | In progress | 2026 |
+| MadGraph5_aMC@NLO | Monte Carlo event generator | In progress | 2026 |
+| Pepper | Production of Parton-level Event Records | In progress | 2026 |
+| Dirac & DiracX | Distributed computing framework | In progress | 2025-2026 |
+| nopayload DB and client | Conditions Database system | In progress | 2025-2026 |
 | [nnpdf](https://github.com/NNPDF/nnpdf) | Machine Learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions | ![Affiliated]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/HSF-logo/HSF-Affiliated.svg) | 2025 |
-| [prmon](https://github.com/HSF/prmon) | Standalone lightweight process resource consumption monitor | ![Bronze]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/HSF-logo/HSF-Affiliated.svg) | 2024 |
+| [prmon](https://github.com/HSF/prmon) | Standalone lightweight process resource consumption monitor | ![Affiliated]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/HSF-logo/HSF-Affiliated.svg) | 2024 |
 
-## Older projects under the umbrella of HSF
-
-These are older projects that were associated with the HSF before the current affiliation scheme was setup. They are encouraged to apply for the new affiliation status!
-
-{:.table .table-hover .table-condensed .table-striped}
-| Name  | Description | License | Contact |
-| --------| ------------- |----------|-----------|
-| CondDB [Client](https://github.com/BNLNPPS/nopayloadclient/) [Server](https://github.com/BNLNPPS/nopayloaddb) | Conditions Database implementation following the [HSF CondDB]({{ site.baseurl }}/activities/conditionsdb.html) recommendations | Apache-2 | [Lino Gerlach](mailto:lino.oscar.gerlach@cern.ch) and [Ruslan Mashinistov](mailto:ruslan.mashinistov@cern.ch) |
-| [DD4hep](https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep)   | Generic Detector Description toolkit for HEP  | LGPL v3 | [Markus Frank](mailto:marks.frank@cern.ch) |
-| [fads](https://pkg.go.dev/go-hep.org/x/hep/fads?tab=doc)          | FAst Detector Simulation  | BSD-3 | [Sebastien Binet](mailto:binet@cern.ch) |  
-| [Gaudi](http://gaudi.web.cern.ch/gaudi/)          | Event data processing framework | Apache-2 | [Marco Clemencic](mailto:marco.clemencic@cern.ch) |  
-| [HepMC3](https://gitlab.cern.ch/hepmc/HepMC3) | C++ Event Record for Monte Carlo Generators | LGPL v3 | [Witek Pokorski](mailto:witold.pokorski@cern.ch) |
-| [Phoenix](https://github.com/HSF/phoenix) | Event display framework | Apache-2 | [Ed Moyse](mailto:Edward.Moyse@cern.ch) |
-| [podio](https://github.com/AIDASoft/podio) | Event Data Model Library based on plain-old-data | GPL v3 | [Benedikt Hegner](mailto:benedikt.hegner@cern.ch) |
-| [PM4hep](https://github.com/hegner/PM4hep) | Minimal Plugin Manager | GPL v3 | [Benedikt Hegner](mailto:benedikt.hegner@cern.ch) |
-| [ROOT](https://root.cern.ch/)            | Data Analysis Framework | LGPL v2+ | [Pere Mato](mailto:pere.mato@cern.ch) |
-| [XRootD](https://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/)     | High performance, scalable fault tolerant access to data  | LGPL v3 | [Andrew Hanushevsky](mailto:abh@stanford.edu)|
+Note that affiliation is assumed to remain valid for a period of 5 years,
+at which point an iteration of the evaluation (details [here]({{ site.baseurl }}/projects/affiliated.html))
+will be done to confirm continuation of the affiliation.