Digest: Cohort Call 01 [ 2023-nasa-champions ]

[erinmr]

Hi All!

It’s exciting to start our NASA Openscapes Champions Cohort and meet you all in Zoom! We introduced a lot of concepts and terms; we will explore them more together in the next sessions. Below is a light digest of Call 01, including a reminder about your Seaside Chat to think through your Pathway trailhead.

As a reminder of tasks for next time: (1) have your first ‘seaside chat’ with your team and discuss where are you now? What would you like to do towards migrating to the cloud? Is that what your team is going to do? (2) double check your team’s bio in the participants sheet.

With those two items, we will focus the first part of our next call on getting to know all of the teams. We are using this activity as a way to also discuss team culture more generally. The second half of the call will focus on data strategies for future us in the cloud.

We'll send each of you an invitation to Openscapes Slack. Here’s a short Slack orientation to help you get comfortable. The 2023-nasa-champions channel is a private space to connect with each other and the NASA-Openscapes Mentors, and other community channels are to engage with folks from previous cohorts. Joining Slack is optional, another tool for you to experiment with.

Have a good week,

Erin, Julie, Stef, and NASA Openscapes Mentors

Digest: Cohort Call 01 [ 2023-nasa-champions ]

Cohort Google Drive folder - contains agendas, video recordings, slides, pathways folder

nasa-openscapes.github.io/2023-nasa-champions/ - cohort webpage

Goals: We started working towards a common understanding of the Openscapes mindset and what your pathway forward looks like for your team.

Task: please see the Agenda doc (under Closing) for details and links

• Have a Seaside Chat & start your Pathway
• Update your team bio
• Join Slack (we’ll invite you to our Openscapes org)

Slide Decks:

• Opensapes Mindset (slides)
• Better science for future us, Guests: Jinbo Wang & Allan Just (slides)

A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc

• 80/20 rule accessing data wrangling vs analysis and how much more science we could do if we flip
• understanding what would change, and what actually doesn’t have to change if you move to the cloud (which can help make it less overwhelming, hopefully)
  • I think this is a really important point: the goal should be to learn how to make your workflow “agnostic” about working in the cloud vs on a local environment. The process for doing that is not obvious to novices.
• I often think about how to make my workflows reproducible and accessible. I would like to learn more about using Github for storing my code and collaborating with others. +2
• Be willing to share and discuss any of the code you create +1
• Learning by example can be efficient - it was good to hear about Jinbo and Allan’s experiences - encourage use of help pages (on github)
• Have ability to reproduce end to end analysis using Jyputer notebook. Replication is very important.

We will send calendar invites to an optional coworking time in weeks alternating with our Cohort Calls, starting after Call 02. You're always welcome to join any coworking session: talking, screensharing, and seeing how other people work is a big part of this transition to more open science.