Stream: Project Pythia

Topic: usgs hackathon opportunity

Drew Camron (Aug 09 2023 at 16:25):

@Julia Kent @Brian Rose @Kevin Tyle @Max Grover @Robert Ford

Unidata + COMET is working with USGS on HyTEST for broad education and training goals. They're interested in is offering their own version of our Cookbook Hackathon and producing some Cookbook content. They were looking for a rundown of how we ran it, some of the do's and dont's we took away from the hackathon, and considerations for whether they should run it primarily for a USGS audience or open it more broadly to the community. I gave my perspective and have offered for COMET's person on this to come chat with us.

I can't be at the upcoming EWG, but they'd like to chat sooner rather than later (and are looking to spend money.) Are y'all interested in a separate meeting with COMET on this, or would an existing meeting (8/21 IWG, 8/22 OWG, or 8/28 EWG) be the best fit to have you all as part of this discussion?

Drew Camron (Aug 09 2023 at 16:27):

They'd be trying to offer something like this before July 2024

John Clyne (Aug 09 2023 at 17:14):

I'm working on getting our Hackathon scheduled for next summer. Would it make sense to join forces? Would they consider contributing directly to the Pythia collection, taking advantage of all our infrastructure, support, community, etc.? With appropriate tagging, and maybe a little infrastructure work, they could essentially have their own HyTEST gallery

Julia Kent (Aug 09 2023 at 17:39):

Those times work for me. I echo John's questions :)

Drew Camron (Aug 09 2023 at 18:15):

I believe the plan would be to directly contribute within our space, yes. But we could try and get that info from them

Kevin Tyle (Aug 09 2023 at 19:11):

Any of those meeting dates would work for me.

Max Grover (Aug 11 2023 at 15:45):

That is awesome - I think a separate meeting might be more helpful

Brian Rose (Aug 14 2023 at 16:42):

Sorry I'm late to this thread. FYI @Drew Camron we have some specific language in our recently funded new Pythia NSF proposal to collaborate with USGS on spinning HyTEST content into Cookbooks. Amelia Snyder from USGS is identified as a zero-cost collaborator on this.

Drew Camron (Aug 14 2023 at 19:25):

Excellent, all the more reason to get them directly in the room!

Thomas Martin (Aug 15 2023 at 18:09):

Be happy to tag along, wonder if it's mainly USGS hydro people or rock people

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