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

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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 | Badge Link | Logo (shields.io) | Cached Version Link |
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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.