Pythia Outreach Meeting Notes
Project Pythia Outreach Meeting Notes
Zoom link | Password: pythia23
Archive of meeting notes pre-11/2023
Suggestion for upcoming meeting:
- Advertising our planned review / refresh of Pythia Foundations content
- We are interested in soliciting suggestions / opinions from users
- What existing content could be updated to reflect changing best practices or updates to the package ecosystem?
- High priority additions of new content
- We plan to hack on this in summer 2025, looking to make a coherent action plan before that.
2024 November 12
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- John Clyne / NCAR / @clyne
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Drew Camron / NSF Unidata / @dcamron
- Max Grover / Argonne / @mgrover1
- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- KT sync checkin with EB - needs technical work for completion
- JK EO cookbook update - author responded
- BR reviewing their own cookbook?
- HTH4 sprint work available for MG, DC, JK
- Otherwise minimal response from authors
- Potential for “Meeting Summary” BAMS article for Hackathon
- Must “be submitted within six months of the date of the meeting”, ie Dec 14 for 2024 - consider for future regardless
- Supplement now or in the future with Discourse and attendee email outreach
- Consider other journals or forums
- AGU Eos
- JOSE/JOSS
- Curvenote? Self publication?
- AGU Notebooks Now
- Determine ASAP deadlines for
- Draft information post - DC & BR 11/13
- Confirming author participation and progress - ALL 11/22
- Initial “due date” to engaged authors (flexible) - 1/3/25 - optional AGU deadline (blog post highlight w/ QR code)
- “Review” turnaround deadline for advocates to publish -
- TBD deadlines for Meeting Summary
- “Fallback” credit for authors unable to respond by AMS - create #hackathon24 tag
- Did anyone attend pyOpenSci Fall Festival? Some will attend Hack the Hackathon 4 next week
- Hack the Hackathon prep work
- AMS participation (Kevin)
- Need additional volunteers
- Accelerate ACCESS proposal submitted
- NCAR/CISL Cyberinfrastructure Road Show (john)
- UCAR LCPOs
- AGU and AMS Town Halls
- Outreach through development check-in
2024 October 8
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- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
- Max Grover / Argonne National Lab / @mgrover1
- Drew Camron / NSF Unidata / @dcamron
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Outreach through development
- DC will contact Leah Wasser for more info
- Small audience (15-20 attendees)
- 34 participants (including instructors)
- “The Pythia binder was instrumental to a successful open radar science short course. We have a complex software environment, with a combination of Python, C, C++, and Java-based libraries that are challenging for individual users to install. The ability to directly deploy docker containers on the binderhub made the user experience seamless, especially when paired with the updated myst-based infrastructure that enabled users to run the notebooks directly on the webpage. Less time was required on setting up the infrastructure, which led to more time improving the content and structure of the course” - Max Grover, Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Workforce Development Coordinator
2024 September 10
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- Joseph Gum / NSF NCAR /
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Report out potential shift to Community Meeting 9/17
- Social Media Rotation
- Currently struggling to use effectively
- What else could we do besides advertise material?
- Could we have this managed by someone at UCAR? Or represent our efforts via UCAR comms channels
- OSS/non-profit - what is Pangeo doing?
- SEO check-in? Advertise via UCAR sites?
- Outreach check-in
- AGU who?
- AMS: Kevin & Drew
- Outreach through development
2024 August 13
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- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- September: KT
- October: JK
- November: RF
- December: DC
- AGU representation?
- Outreach contact spotlight
- Leah Wasser @ PyOpenSci (connected at SciPy, Boulder local, has participated in the past) re Cookbook review process
- Email check in
- GeoLatinas re effective language translation of Cookbooks
- Discussion on mentoring an intern / funding? Could provide extra input on Spanish translations
- Follow back up directly? JK will email and express interest in participating in their space and vice-versa
- Ping AGU reps to check in in-person?
- Follow up with Alfonso L (Spanish-language Cookbook author)?
- AMS Abstracts due Thurs. 8/15 5PM EDT (but will very likely be extended)
- Currently planning 2x submissions
- KT on MyST md, Jupyter Book v2.0, and us
- DC on the Hackathon for building community and skills for scientists
- Short courses from Unidata, CISL
- No Unidata student conference effort, but Pythia (KT) will propose a Git + GitHub session for student conference attendees
- DC will check in with JG over how we can participate in this event
2024 May 14
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- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Social Media Rotation
- SciPy presence - poster in July! Multiple posters
- Pythia team slack and message persistence
- Investigate paid costs and value to hackathon?
- Slack as an outreach opportunity?
- Student conference git+github session
- AMS Short course proposal submission deadline June 1
- Hackathon
- Check in over hotel block
- Social media push
- Hackathon website content updates
- Theming - JK will
- Social media and outreach
- Twitter
- Linkedin
- Discourse
- UCAR/NCAR comms
- Synchronous outreach
- Community meeting next week - tie this to social media
- Pangeo weekly meeting - KT will attend this week
- Advertise limited availability
2024 Apr 9
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- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Harsha Hampapura/NCAR/@hrhampapura
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Abstracts in for SciPy and EGU (14-19 April)
2024 Mar 12
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- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Hackathon: Invited speakers status
- Two of six have responded
- Deadline to hear back 3/21
- Brian will reach out to Amelia Snyder at USGS
- Kevin will reach out to Daniel Rothenberg
- Can we get a link to list of those who have registered?
- Kevin will follow up with Taysia about the issue reported on Slack where someone was charged the registration fee despite indicating they were applying for support to attend
- SciPy Abstract submitted last week
- BR: working with ClimateMatch Academy
- For this year’s summer school, they plan to submit revisions / additions to Foundations
- BR will invite to an upcoming community meeting
- Next week’s Community Meeting:
- BR will advertise next week’s Community Meeting on the Pangeo Discourse and put together an agenda
2024 Feb 13
Attendees [Name / Institution / GitHub username]
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- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Drew Camron
- Rob Ford / UAlbany / @r-ford
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
Pythia Binder Status
- Binder on JS2 is down … ticket is in with JS2
- Pre-conference workshops
- Pythia session, tools session(s), filling the room
- AI/ML cookbooks highly needed
- Pythia social hour with support from Earthmover
- Follow up with Earthmover for Hackathon support
- Reach out to John and others who may have taken pictures (JK just emailed him)
- Sponsorship considerations
- Additional coffee
- Dinner night
- Merch?
- Fee coverage
- Consider adding a chapter to foundations on using AI tools effectively
- Drew will circulate a spreadsheet to populate with proposed invitees / topics
- SciPy 2024 proposals due Feb 27
- DC talk on hackathon? KT wants to attend
- Will not be submitting a tutorial
- Consider “moving from sphinx to mystnb” as a tutorial topic
- Consider hackathon topic on this, and on synchronous learning as well
- Upcoming Pythia Community call
- Announce Hackathon registration
- BR is traveling again and needs someone to sub in as meeting facilitator next Tuesday 2/20
- Sara Swanson and Megan from Friends of the Center joining us next month
- John Clyne requests that they can retweet our tweets
- BR will be speaking about Pythia Cookbooks at Ocean Sciences next week
- BR is volunteering as a “Day Lead” (Climate Modeling) for ClimateMatch Academy
- JK attending Forest Carbon Codefest next month
Action Items
- Announce binder downtime
- Open infrastructure project ticket for testing
- Upload slide decks from AMS presentations
2024 Jan 9
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- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Record Pythia talks
- Highlights to share?
- BR: presented a well-attended cookbook-oriented talk in an open-science session, co-chaired by J. Munroe. Seems to be a good degree of awareness and appreciation of Pythia
- Direction of executablebooks and myst for (non-sphinx) interactive books. Invited Rowan Cockett of Curvenote to a future Pythia meeting
- Is this a good time to consider submitting an exemplary Cookbook to the AGU / Curvenote portal (“notebook as scholarly object”) and/or the associated journal (Journal of Earth and Space Science)?
- Met up with F. Perez at the Pangeo mixer (FP also attended Brian’s talk)
- JK’s talk was on Friday in a session oriented around global access / participation in open science
- Both BR and JK’s talks are pushed to our GitHub and slide decks are in our Google Drive
- DC put together a document for Pythia-related presentations
- Add Pythia talks to portal
- Scrape agenda for Pythia folks and relevant talks/events
- Tech and data-science mixer (Tuesday late afternoon)
- Additional happy-hour plan? Wednesday looks like the best day
- Pangeo event?
- We will plug the event during our Wednesday session
- Drew Camron make Discourse post for RSVP and location suggestions
- Upcoming Pythia Community call
- Hackathon 2024
- Point folks to ams talk
- Hackathon debrief as mid-year newsletter opportunity, reduce frequency
2023 Dec 11
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- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Max Grover / Argonne / @mgrover1
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
- Scrape agenda for Pythia folks and relevant talks/events
- Scrape agenda for Pythia folks and relevant talks/events
- Tech and data-science mixer (Tuesday late afternoon)
- Additional happy-hour plan? Wednesday looks like the best day
- Buffer currently connected to Twitter and LinkedIn, can schedule out easily
- Can also support YouTube and Mastodon
- No BlueSky yet, potentially is on the timeline for support
- Limited to 3 channels in free plan
2023 Nov 13
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- Drew Camron / Unidata / @dcamron
- Max Grover / Argonne National Lab / @mgrover1
- Julia Kent / NCAR / @jukent
- Kevin Tyle / UAlbany / @ktyle
- Brian Rose / UAlbany / @brian-rose
Agenda, Notes, and Updates
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- KT: Pangeo @ AGU booth would love Pythia presence. Discourse post from Paige Martin to come
- AMS 2024 well represented by Pythia
- 2 talks
- Short courses, student conference workshop weekend before
- Schedule a social outing! Aim for Wednesday, happy hour if conflict or potentially dinner.
- Awards reception 6-7:30
- “Wednesday night live” 7:30-9:30
- Capture an AMS program schedule and start a Discourse post
- BR: OSTP challenge draft to come this week, keep an eye on the Pythia slack
- MG: We should use this synchronize posts across platforms - https://buffer.com/
- Zarr team uses it (free for 3 mediums), and works very well!
- Also… went through a github actions 101 tutorial with Kevin G today, think this might be helpful for a broader group
- Create a sheet for rotating cookbook highlights