[Esip-discovery] Charrette process

[Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Hua, Hook (388C) wrote:

> If we go with a constant 6 groups a priori,

No, not a constant 6 groups.  N_groups = n_attendees / 6, that is constant 6 people PER group.

> shall we also determine ~6
> perspectives in step 0 to use in the following steps?

I'm actually proposing that each group consider all the perspectives.  So it doesn't matter how many perspectives we have, or how many groups we have.
> 
> Then I think it would be useful to create 6 google docs in advance, so
> that each group can collaboratively populate the google doc during the
> brainstorming sessions.

Completely agree with creating the google docs in advance, but may have to overshoot the expected number. However, if each group looks at all perspectives, then it's just copying the same doc a number of times.
> 
> I recall at the EarthCube Charrette, some group members stayed behind,
> while a few others left to other groups to cross-pollinate ideas, and then
> came back to report. So for example, if we have 7 people in a group, we
> could have 4 people stay behind, 3 people visit 3 other groups to exchange
> ideas. Each group's members that stayed behind would answer questions from
> visitors.
> 
> Having said this, I think it would only be effective if there is
> sufficiently large number of participants.

Yes, this is why i suggest the compromise of groups sending members as needed to other groups to ask questions.  They'll probably send only 1 or 2 to specific groups in this case.


BTW, ran into Kuo at a holiday party here at GSFC. He won't be at the ESIP meeting, but did pose a Grand Challenge for discovery, which I propose to use as both one of the GC's and as an example to the groups on what a Grand Challenge is.  Kuo wants to be able to find and access data corresponding to the 4-d space-time history of an event, such as a Mesoscale Convective System. This involves (a) determining the extent of the event in 4 dimensions and then (b) actually searching data on that 4-dimensional extent.

> 
> --Hook
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/13/12 9:50 AM, "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)"
> <christopher.s.lynnes at nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 13, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Christine White wrote:
>> 
>>> I like the mingle aspect of Step 4 - I think perhaps there should be a
>>> time limit though to keep folks moving, e.g., 10 minutes to mingle with
>>> other groups and find out what their GC's are,
>> 
>> I thought we could just put them all up in a Google doc to allow folks to
>> see what they are.  However, to promote the mingling, we could tell the
>> groups to send people to other groups to ask questions for
>> clarifications.  They did this at the Earth Cube Charrette.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> 
>>> then return to one's own group and discuss for 10 before coming
>>> together for a mapping of the connections (?).
>>> 
>>> Christine White
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>>> Subject: [Esip-discovery] Charrette process
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>>> 0 - Define / present goals of process, different perspectives*
>>> 1 - Count off into N / 6 groups, where N is n umber of attendees
>>> 2 - In the first brainstorming period, each group tries to develop one
>>> grand challenge use case for each perspective**
>>> 3 - We make all of the GC's available to everyone
>>> 4 - In the second period, each group goes on a scavenger hunt for GC's
>>> that are complementary to their own
>>> 5 - we then look at the various connections that have been made as a
>>> group
>>> 
>>> *science researcher, long tail data provider, etc.
>>> **but if they end up with an unbalanced set that is OK
>>> 
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Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185
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