Monday Hackday at UWG Summit. Theme: ‘earthaccess hackday’
Cross-posted at openscapes.org/events, nasa-openscapes.github.io/news, nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog
Please save the date!
Thursday, August 20th, the last day of the NASA UWG Summit, we’ll host a hackday from 10am - 3:30pm Eastern time (with a lunch break). We hope you can make it!
“Hackday” to our NASA Openscapes and earthaccess communities means we will be collaboratively problem-solving and strategizing, and translating ideas into action. This includes decisions, code, and documentation. Purpose: To gather anyone who’s attending the UWG Summit or from on-site at Goddard, and hack on “making things easier for scientists” from policy, social and technical perspectives. This in-person hackday is about how we’re supporting scientists with infrastructure. A lot of hacking is not hands-on coding. It’s hacking on decisions. It’s seeing how each other works. Asking each other questions about interoperability. It’s surfacing friction - which friction lies in the tech and which lies in the social? We know earthaccess has transformed the way people access NASA Earthdata. We want to welcome new users and contributors to earthaccess and the open science ecosystem.
At the hackday itself, we’ll kick things off with a friendly showcase to orient people:
- How to use earthaccess with NASA data (Amy Steiker)
- Considerations for contributing to open source projects (Julie Lowndes)
- More to come!