[Bessig] BESSIG meeting Wed, 4/17, 4 PM, Outlook

[Davide Del Vento]

Neal,

I've been at the SEA talk and agree with you. Another related one (and 
more relevant to the earth science community) is 
https://sea.ucar.edu/event/rapid-flexible-and-open-source-big-data-technologies-us-national-climate-assessment

On a completely different level, I see ipython notebook moving towards 
the same goal.

Hopefully one day these things will be the norm...

Regards,
Davide Del Vento,
NCAR Computational & Information Services Laboratory
Consulting Services Software Engineer
http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/uss/csg/
SEA Chair http://sea.ucar.edu/

On 04/17/2013 02:33 PM, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> One part of such a collaboratory should probably be more focus on developing, integrating, delivering and supporting good tools for working with earth science data.  In that vein, I was impressed by a talk from the recent SEA Conference:
>
>   Open is not enough: benefits from Debian as an integrated, community-driven computing platform
>    http://sea.ucar.edu/event/open-not-enough-benefits-debian-integrated-community-driven-computing-platform
>
> I didn't get to attend or watch that one live, but it jives with my experience in the benefits of the Ubuntu and Debian models of integrating software and making it easy to distribute and support.  The slides and video are available at the link above.
>
> Did anyone else on the list see the talk?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:16:56PM -0600, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> Hi BESSIG,
>>
>> Next Wednesday is our April meeting, and also the two year
>> anniversary of the BESSIG!  Please join us to mark the occasion and
>> for a remote presentation:
>>
>> Chris Lynnes, Chief Systems Engineer, Goddard DAAC, NASA, "The Earth
>> Science Collaboratory"
>>
>> The Earth Science Collaboratory is a proposed framework for
>> supporting the sharing within the Earth science community of data,
>> tools, analysis methods, and results, plus all the contextual
>> knowledge that go with these artifacts.  The likely benefits
>> include:
>>
>>      - access to expert knowledge about how to work with data safely
>> and efficiently
>>      - full reprocability of results
>>      - efficient collaboration within multi-disciplinary and/or
>> geographically distributed teams
>>      - a social network to bring together researchers and data users
>> with common interests
>>
>> Currently, there are some nascent efforts to construct such a
>> collaboratory.  However, by its very (inclusive) nature, this
>> construction is likely to be most successful as an emergent process,
>> evolving from many point-to-point connections to an eventual
>> ecosystem of cooperating components supporting collaboration.
>>
>> In particular, the project seeks potential users of such a
>> collaboratory.  If this tool sounds interesting to you and you would
>> like to be involved in its design, or you know of someone that might
>> be interested, please spread the word.  Tools like this may be
>> significant in doing science in the future.  Students and early
>> career researchers are especially encouraged to participate.
>>
>> Complete information is available at: http://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/BESSIG/2013/04/05/BESSIG+Meeting+Wed%2C+Apr+17%2C+4+-+6+PM
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>> Anne
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