NASA Openscapes Suborbital Champions Coworking Sessions

This fall we will have NASA Openscapes Coworking sessions for EVS-4 teams. These biweekly sessions begin September 10th, from 10:30 to 12:00 PT through December.

Quicklinks:

• Cohort webpage: https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2026-nasa-champions/
  
• Cohort blogpost: https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-07-23-nasa-champions-2026/

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EVS-4 teams, please join us for further support in Coworking Fall 2026!

To continue making progress and connections within and across EVS-4 teams and NASA Mentors, we will host biweekly NASA Openscapes Coworking sessions from September to December, on Wednesdays, from 10:30am - 12pm PT. These are drop-in and open to anyone on EVS-4 teams – even if you did not participate in the June Champions Cohort. to receive the calendar invite to the coworking sessions, please send an email to ronny@openscapes.org

Coworking sessions provide a space to work on your own projects while benefiting from shared experiences and support from others working on similar challenges. We will create breakout rooms around the themes people work on, and will have Openscapes staff and NASA Openscapes Mentors available to mentor and develop as needs emerge. During the cohort sessions, some topics were suggested as areas where additional support could be valuable such as:

• Shared, open documentation with notebooks (Quarto, Jupyter)
  • How to create notebooks
    
  • How to render notebooks locally (and what does this mean!)
    
  • How to “deploy” notebooks as a website
    
  • Changing/updating notebooks
    
  • Work as a team in a notebooks (version control)
    
• Collaboration in the cloud with data
  • Data formats (cloud optimized, etc)
    
  • GitHub not for hosting data but for code and documentation
• Project management with GitHub
  • Issues priorities
    
  • Canvas
    
  • Communication through issues vs messages on slack
    
  • Best practices for creating READMEs
    
• Visualizations, like this one for BioSCape. It’s open source (github repo) so FORTE could fork and customize it. This is promising; visualizations are something that teams ask for often. However, a caution that before the metadata is finalized, it is difficult to visualize.

We also invite you: Openscapes will host a Community Call on October 1, 2026 about AI and Open Communities, Please check nasa-openscapes.github.io/events for registration details in the next weeks open to comments; stay tuned). These conversations will bring together people from different organizations to discuss how AI has impacted open communities, the role of communities beyond being a convenor for technical information exchange and learning, and how communities can adapt to continue to welcome and support people.